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is there vandal resistant signs available and do they work?
OK people get the brain cells going on this one.
I recently was asked to provide a digitally printed panel & post sign free standing on two posts. The top panel A1 size was a full print of a BMX rider on a ramp and the second panel contained all the rules for the park as supplied by Bexley council. The only brief was it was likely to suffer a bit of grafitti and needed to be easily cleaned so a covering of anti grafitti film covered the finished signage. We have returned to site today to find the sign battered beyond belief the 3mm panels had been punctured with a hammer and the graphics and grafitti film had been destroyed the whole thing which started life as a lovely sign was a right off. The customer has asked what can we do to protect it but with this level of mindless vanalism can anything be protected? (:)Any solutions greatly appreciated
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I had some trouble with some Park signage, albeit fairly low cost Banners.
They kept getting ripped or torn down altogether.I made up a small foamex sign F.O.C to go alongside saying CCTV in OPERATION and the problem stopped! (:)
Whether it would work in your case is difficult to tell but it may be worth putting up a temporary replacement with CCTV etc., alongside to see what happens?
I think if the vandals want to destroy something they will. A defunct play school hall on local authority land not too far from me had been empty for less than a week before it was vandalised. Fairly minor stuff at first, windows broken, that kind of thing. The council boarded everything up and they broke the boards off. Metal window shields were put in place and they stole a car, drove it through the doors and set light to it. The hall had to be torn down at a cost of £10,000!
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Put a tempory sign up asking local kids to design a sign for their own BMX park use as many bits of as many different designs submitted and give credit to the kids who got involved on the sign.
You could make it out of tissue paper then. The kids will be so proud they will police it for you.
Neil…
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Shoot the b*st*rds
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Hi Neil
Sadly the main image with the grafitti name tag was designed by the local kids who use the park so as you can imagine this has become a very frustrating project. And to make matters worse i wasted all those colorcamm cartridges 😥
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Well there’s not much you can do is there!
You applied anti graffitti covering but thats only for spray paints etc but now your talking of youngsters, probably high on crack and alcohol
running riot with a hammer and anything else they can lay their hands on (hot) (hot)If I had the answer to how to tackle that I would patent it
Then folks like British Rail (or its subsidiaries), Local Bus firms and BT etc would be interested I’m sure.
The indestructable sign! Now there’s a thought
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PIR controlled gatling gun and a bunch of claymore mines than would stop em! 😆 😆 😆 seriously though not a lot you can do in these situations other than steel or ali plate and then get the get a car paint sprayer to 2 pack laquer the whole thing, but they can be determined little b’stards 👿
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reverse engraved translucent aluminium’s what you want….hold on, that was in Star Trek wazunit?…damn 😕
What we did once was have the council arrange for a quarry boulder to be chisselled with a rectagular recess and then set an engraved aluminium plate into it with resin! – sort of worked! – but still received some cosmetic attack…
we need robocop!… 😀
more soon
mikethesign
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Chain the new & improved u beaut UKSG patented attack Doberman to the sign. A land shark ought to stop it.
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you could speak to these guys
Tel: +44 (0) 1723 373739 | Fax: +44 (0) 1723 500004
They do the following
Permasign is the best replacement for engraved, laminated, enamel and polycarbonate signs. Permasigns are highly vandal-resistant and can withstand naked flame, variable temperatures and attacks such as graffiti, letter removal and burning. Any damage can be removed without the need for specialist cleaners.
Hope it helps
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mmmmhhhhhhhh interesting but who are these guys???
Company name??
And location would be helpful
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Take a piece of 10 mm thick steel plate cut the letters out of it with a plazma cutter.
Weld them on to another piece of 10 mm plate drive 2 six inch H section girders into concrete about 3 mtrs down.
Get a large crane to lift the plate into position and get welding again.
Dont paint it let it rust.
The kids will paint it for you on a regular basis for free
Charge the council 5k due to your modern with it design that should be virtually vandal proof and maintenance free for about 50 years. 😆 😆
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Lorainne
They are called sign language in York.
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