Saying hello from West Cork, Ireland

[Marcella Ross]

Hi Angelique!

What a lovely name! Welcome to the boards.

I’m sure Harry will be along to offer you info! 😉

Marcella :welcome:

[David Rowland]

welcome,… please ignore my other post… good on ya for saying hello…
Hello from North Devon

[Angelique Muller]

Thanks for the welcome!
Good to see there are other women around. When I was initially looking at this forum it only seemed to be men…..

[Marcella Ross]

oh no…………… there’s a few of us females around ………. don’t worry. We keep the boys in their rightful places! 😉

[David Rowland]

Roffey and Rob do cross dress from time to time if that counts

[Harry Cleary]

Hi from up in Monaghan Angelique. Like Marcella says, I will help if I can.

[Nicola McIntosh]

welcome to the boards angelique 😀

nik

[Angelique Muller]

Well, Thank you all for such a friendly welcome (this whole forum business is quite new to me as well)! It’s past my bedtime now…. but I will be back again soon.

[Peter Normington]

Hi,
welcome Angelique.

Peter

[Robert Lambie]

welcome to the boards 😀

[Shane Drew]

Hi and welcome from one of the many aussies here too.

Got some nice ladies onboard actually. Its always nice to have more though,

Welcome again 😉

[Martin Pearson]

Hi Angelique, welcome to the boards, lots of useful info on here and a lot of friendly people.

[Bill McMurtry]

Hi and welcome Angelique 😀

[Lynn Normington]

Hello and welcome Angelique you have found the right place to be, and as Marcella says lovely name 😎

Lynn

[Brian Maher]

Hi Angelique,
welcome to uksb 🙂

great people here and always someone willing to help with good sound advice

we are based in tipperary not too far away 😕 :lol1:

look up Sign & Digitial Supplies in Dublin ask for Derek, nice bloke
they do vinyls, app. tapes, signmaking equipment and loads of fittings and are very reliable

or Robert horne,again in Dublin, ask for Suneel in A&P,another good guy
these guys do corriboard, skybond,vinyls, tapes and loads more

Walsh graphics in cork are near you, look for Gail,
they do hexis vinlys and corriboard
but dont cut sheets down 😥 to smaller sizes yet.

best of luck and tell em we sent ya!!!! :lol1:

brian

[Warren Beard]

Hi Angelique

Welcome, you will enjoy and benefit from this site, it’s full of great helpful people.

Warren

[Angelique Muller]

quote Brian Maher:

Hi Angelique,
welcome to uksb 🙂

great people here and always someone willing to help with good sound advice

we are based in tipperary not too far away 😕 :lol1:

look up Sign & Digitial Supplies in Dublin ask for Derek, nice bloke
they do vinyls, app. tapes, signmaking equipment and loads of fittings and are very reliable

or Robert horne,again in Dublin, ask for Suneel in A&P,another good guy
these guys do corriboard, skybond,vinyls, tapes and loads more

Walsh graphics in cork are near you, look for Gail,
they do hexis vinlys and corriboard
but dont cut sheets down 😥 to smaller sizes yet.

best of luck and tell em we sent ya!!!! :lol1:

brian

Thanks for the suggestions Brian.
I have been looking in yellow pages and online for suppliers, but did not find many. I got refered to O’Sullivans in Dublin. They sell vynil etc. but in large quantities. I am only a very (very) small operator and am currently more interested in suppliers of smaller quantities. I bought some stock online from the UK, that should keep me happy for a while (unless people start looking for the colours I didn’t buy……)

[Brian Maher]

customers will always want what you dont have…:lol1:

try expand your colour selection as you go but also try keep stock levels low starting out, no point tying up all your cash in stock,
most places offer next day delivery at reasonable cost so its easy get stock if you’re stuck..

have a chat with derek in sign & digital on 087 6891633,
as i said really helpful and offer good service…

exactly what you need in a supplier 😉

Brian

[Harry Cleary]

Have to agree with Brian, Angelique. Sign and Digital wont let you down, great service.

Brian could you post contact details for A&P, dont know them, do they have a website?
Thanks

[Brian Maher]

Harry my good man… here you go 😉

A&P : Suneel Seetal on 086 8207933

[Harry Cleary]

Cheers Brian! sent you a Pm

[Angelique Muller]

hey Brian,
Are you based in Cashel? I think I might have seen your place…. I am sometimes in that part of the country as my mother-in-law lives in Thurles, just down the road…

[Brian Maher]

no…we are actually in thurles :lol1:
drop in for a chat some time you’re in town

[Angelique Muller]

okay, thanks. Might do that next time I am in the area for family visits….

[Martin Kennedy]

Hi Angelique

Welcome to the boards!

Another good supplier (from whom you can buy material by the metre) is Trimwel in Dublin. Tel (01) 2940188. Ask for Derek or Ross.

All the best with your new venture!

Martin

[Angelique Muller]

Thanks for that Martin!
Well I think I have just found a very good supplier…… I woke up this morning ( I lied, 😳 it was afternoon) from a van leaving our place: a friend, who is a builder had left me a big pile of off-cuts sheeting material that I can use as backgrounds…. how is that for service!!! 😛

[Micheal Donnellan]

Howya doing.
Just noticed your from Ireland as well, seems we are slowly increasing in number on here.

from West Clare myself

[Robert Lambie]

quote Micheal Donnellan:

Just noticed your from Ireland as well, seems we are slowly increasing in number on here.

your kidding me mate… you any idea the amount from ireland on here? :lol1: :lol1:

on that, a good old Friend of mine from Ireland was Eddie Cotter from UKSB. that is a guy that put his heart and soul into starting his sign business and built it from nothing to a well known business today. I last heard eddie was supplying trade printing for other sign companies in his area. also built a cracking big house on land he built… way to go eddie! 😉

[Micheal Donnellan]

quote Robert Lambie:

quote Micheal Donnellan:

Just noticed your from Ireland as well, seems we are slowly increasing in number on here.

your kidding me mate… you any idea the amount from ireland on here? :lol1: :lol1:

😉

well I have no Idea how many from Ireland are on the forum as I don’tt really see the flag that often and a few people seem to dominate talk on the board, probably giving the impression the irish are rare.

[Robert Lambie]

no probs Micheal, just kidding mate… many base the traffic on who posts on the boards. however, thats far from accurate when you take that we have up to 400,000 unique visits in a month, and only around 8600 actually "registered users", with only a fraction of that "actively posting". it is a bit deceiving…
i just did a quick count on the last 200 registered on UKSB… (in defense of what you have said) we have had only 14 register from Ireland. 132 from the UK mainland and the rest Misc… 😀

[Micheal Donnellan]

OK assuming the same rate in general That works about 800 or so, I did not even think there were that many sign people in Ireland in the first place! Let alone on here, they should post more often.

[Robert Lambie]

my thoughts entirely mate… 😀

it is scary the amount from the UK that are registered on UKSB.
i do monitor the traffic to an extent and the volume of traffic from the UK really is unbelievable.
UKSB gets anything up to 400-450 posts in a 24hr period… can you imagine If even a 10th of the "registered" users posted daily? 😕 :lol1: :lol1:

[Angelique Muller]

quote Micheal Donnellan:

Howya doing.
Just noticed your from Ireland as well, seems we are slowly increasing in number on here.

from West Clare myself

& hello to you too!!!