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help please layering vinyl on inside of windows?
hi there guys,
as you know i am new to this so i have what might sound like a silly question.
I am doing some sign work for a store’s front glass panels. The vinyl will be cut in reverse and applied from the inside of the glass. The question i have is it possible to layer different colours from the inside out or will i need to cut it out so all the work butts up against eachother so there is no overlapping. I was thinking if i layered on the glass it would leave a slight airpocket on the overlapping edges. What do you guys do ?
Thanks in advance, i hope you know what i am talking about
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It depends.
If the designs allows for it, I will leave a gap eg. 0.5mm for ‘no gap’ or make it part of the design by being a couple of mm thick. I favour this method especially when doing lightboxes..then it’s a ‘halo’ and not a gap 🙄
This means I have no overlap issues…it does mean that I HAVE to be very accurate when assembling the sections!
I sometimes do an overlap for BIG stuff as visually the proportion of ‘air’ (on windows) – given some time it will dissapear totally anyway, or ‘dark patch’ (on lightboxes) is minimal.
Dave
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quote David Rogers:It depends.If the designs allows for it, I will leave a gap eg. 0.5mm for ‘no gap’ or make it part of the design by being a couple of mm thick. I favour this method especially when doing lightboxes..then it’s a ‘halo’ and not a gap 🙄
This means I have no overlap issues…it does mean that I HAVE to be very accurate when assembling the sections!
I sometimes do an overlap for BIG stuff as visually the proportion of ‘air’ (on windows) – given some time it will dissapear totally anyway, or ‘dark patch’ (on lightboxes) is minimal.
Dave
Thanks dave, it is a large section about 1.5m x 1.0m so i am thinking of doing the large bit of black background that will be over the lettering in a cast vinyl to eliminate that halo of air. Will that work ?
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quote Theo:Thanks dave, it is a large section about 1.5m x 1.0m so i am thinking of doing the large bit of black background that will be over the lettering in a cast vinyl to eliminate that halo of air. Will that work ?
It’s all to do with the proportions in my opinion. eg. flood coating over a paragraph of 10mm text looks terrible when it’s first done, but make it a line of 300mm text – not so bad!
Try it at work with a sample on a window. Be VERY patient when putting down the backing. Think about doing it dry (on a cool day).
Dave
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Ive just completed a run of 7 windows all with layers of reverse cut graphics on them and I left a very small gap all around the letters so that there was no overlap and therefore no problems with air pockets. The job looked great and was really easy to assemble on the job as its easy to see where you are putting the layers when you’re working on the inside of a window looking out. Its like working on a big lightbox ( as long as you’re not doing the job at night 😀 ). I did almost all the job dry. Will try to post some piccies if I can get my head together, still jetlagged after my hols 😕
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Theo be careful putting a solid black square on a window as it might cause the window to crack 😮 😮 😮
Peter
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quote Peter Munday:Theo be careful putting a solid black square on a window as it might cause the window to crack 😮 😮 😮
Peter
Good point!! We had a discussion of that about 2 months back.
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Window Crack !!! 😮 😮 Are you guys serious. (:)
How should i do it then, it basically is some text about 200mm high sitting on a black background (but in reverse), if i could upload the pic of the logo i would but i can’t seem to do it.Is the black cracking because of the heat it attracts or is there more to it ?
I really need some opinions here before i start cutting anything[/list] -
Theo heres the discussionhttp://www.uksignboards.com/v … ght=window cracking#157635
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Try this http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=20 … ht=windows cracking
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