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Fitting Vehicle Graphics Outside
Hi everyone, have just been browsing the site looking for info on the above issue.
And i am now very concerned!!! This is my first winter in the sign trade, and im going to be fitting all vehicles outside unless the customer has a garage, as i dont have a workshop that fits a van it. 🙄
Please tell me others are in the same boat!!! From what ive read if you fit vans in the cold the letters are going to fall off few months later!!! 😮
The lack of mains electricity fitting ‘on-site’ means a hairdryer or heat gun is out of the question, my gen only does upto 800wAm i going to have serious problems fitting vehicle graphics in the cold, or is it a case of doing it inside is ‘preferable’ but not essential??
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7 Replies
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Ive been fitting vehicle graphics for 7 years now. Im in the same boat as you when winter comes and never had any problems, all I can say is wrap up warm, clean the panels really well and aviod fittng early morning and late afternoon (build up of condensation on panel) good luck hope it goes well for you.
Dale
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thanks dale, good to know others have managed without indoor fitting premises!!! Thanks for tip on fitting times as well
cheers
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Did you read the link below, we had a bit of a discussion the other week:
https://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … sc&start=0
We used to do them outside but felt it was getting too impractical, cold, wet, windy all these factors are not ideal when it comes to fitting graphics outside. I dont feel its good to put customers off just because the weather is bad, that should be your problem amd not theirs, especially if they have a business to run and have booked the van off the road in advance especially for you to do a job and then you let them down …. well thats my opinion anyway. I know others do manage outside. Its down to how many vehicles per week you do aswell … we have at the very least one or two do a week now.
Carrie 😀
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what you want is a ezup (http://www.ezup.com) these are just great, we use one for our race car as a portable garage when at race tracks around the country. you can fully errect one of these in under a miniute, we have made up clip on sides for ours so its fully enclosed when required. i think the version i brought was called a speed shelter or something.. we use this all the time for other things when we need shelter outside..
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yup been there done that, sweeping snow from van bonnets on a freezing December morning whilst the customer stands in his doorway with a steaming cup of coffee and doesn’t offer you one (that cost him an extra £20 :lol1: ) maybe the pop up gazebo type things are the way to go? a chippie mate has a 3sqm one, he bought it at the Ideal Home show only about £200 but probably not good on windy days 😀
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quote Steve Broughton:but probably not good on windy days 😀
I thought that was the fun bit – applying graphics in gale force conditions!
The gazebo thing is something I’ve thought about even if it does no more than keep the dew at bay.
I would be interested to hear if anybody else uses anything like this.
Mark
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i have fitted trucks and ans outside in weather like today.. blistering cold, windy and dark… NOT ADVISED. 😮
it was a case of the customer had waited so long on weather change and could not locate it to a large enough bay to fit in. so outside it was…
i had two guys with a sheet of 8×4 correx stading holding it over me, tipped back the way to allow the rain to run off but also to stop the wind.
it works well to an extent but the two holding it get drentched… :lol1:when it comes to stuff like this you make sure your paid upfront coz as far as im concenred the vinyl wont stick for very long… and thats dry applied 😉
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