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OPPS!! did I do that?
As you can see from the pictures something has gone terribly wrong 🙁 I knew of the problems regarding full coverage of a window and the problems the heat from the sun can cause from the glass cracking, but this cracked in the middle of the night 😮
It would seem that as this is a tropical fish shop, the heat generated by all of the tanks plus the temperature outside dropping below freezing it could only end up in tears 😳
The only problem being is that the customer still wants the other three windows covered 😮 The question is should I turn him down and lose the income, or should I just play ignorant and bag the cash 🙄
Answers on a postcard please………………
Peter
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Just a thought couldnt you do it printed on contra vision or do you suspect that that would crack the windows too?
G 😕
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Well this is the thing I don’t know if it would have made a difference George.
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Tell him the kids must have done it and take the money and run 😀
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I think contra vision would expand and contact at a different rate to the glass as well so if this was caused by the vinyl then it probably wouldn’t make a difference.
Is this a new shop or has it always been a tropical fish shop? Reason I ask is because if it has only just opened as a tropical fish shop it may be due to something other than the vinyl like the building materials drying out or even expanding due to the increase in humidity. -
Good thinking Martin, this used to be a furniture shop so it was nice and dry as you say it could be the building reacting to all that moisture 😀
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nasty business. maybe you could print onto canvas or board and just insert inside windows, ‘just until the building settles’. There is a red devil storage not far from me, they whited all the showroom windows, every one of them has cracked. I bet it looked nice before the ‘kids smashed it’
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Cheryl has a very good point, you could print and mount onto something like 1mm foam, that way you would be sure whatever happened to the windows the graphic would not be the cause and could easily be refitted if the window were to be broken again or another window broke. Probably wouldn’t be much more expensive either as 1mm foam is cheap and you would probably save on application time as you could do it off site.
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as above the best way to do this would be to mount on board i would still go for 5mm but then you wont get any come back problems
What has the customer said regarding getting the glass replaced ??
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Richard the customer is under the impression that it was vandalised and I’m not going to tell him otherwise 🙄 He has already claimed on his insurance and a new window is going in on the 10th, but I think I will look at a different way of doing the re-print. Maybe a print onto banner grade pvc and staple to the inside of the window frame.
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Peter – Could be worse if the cracks had let the water out the fish would have drowned 😕
John
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