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Shop Sign: Room Solutions
seeing as you are all probably fed up looking at vinyl work from me here is a shop front sign i fitted yesterday.
This isn’t a demo, but consists of about 10 pictures so give them a moment to let them load please…Basically the spec I had on this job was simple.
Arrive with 3 di-bond panels, measuring about 75 inches high by about 52 inches wide, & fit them to a wooden “existing” shop fascia. I was advise to take some tools to remove old Foamex but to then simply silicon and screw the panels to the face of the wood. Easy! Or so I thought!
Its always the same… a customer will play down the work to save some cash… understandable but this one pushed their luck a bit too far.Anyway… I arrived on site… looked at the job and thought furfu**ssake!
I removed a large V-shaped for sale sign…
I then removed a Foamex sign.
Below that was another thin plastic sign?
So I removed that too…
When I did the whole thing started to wobble and was clearly unsafe…
Out comes the owner and I explained… unless I rip this down it’s gonna kill someone sooner or later… he gave the knod and in I went again…
Down come the sheets of ply to expose. Yet another sign?
Takes down that signs boards and you guessed it another sign!
This time when I removed that one I actually found the signs backing board was in good condition and fitted well… so I thought im far back enough ill have to work with this…
As I pulled some bits away to the side I spotted behind that backing board was another sign!!!! As I laughed I said to the guy with me that’s number 6!!! He said no chance so I put my hand in and pulled it forward to show him it was behind it… as I did he said… your right… but look underneath that bit you’ve pulled up…????
Another sign!!! This time painted on the marble building and must have been at least 100 years old if not much more! 7 bloody signs all on top of each other… my first time ever seeing something like this…Anyway… after getting the lot back to something more secure to fix to I went about
Making new frame extension to build onto the old one… cut up the large di-bond panels to create a sign not as deep… used the off-cuts to box in an old shutter box now exposed by me ripping the frame down. Edged the lot in 1×1 inch alloy angle and applied the flat cut letters…You will see some, but not all the stages…
This was a bit of a nightmare to say the least, but in the end the customer was thrilled… my hands were cut to bits but I was happy enough with the result.
See pics below….
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They saw you coming, Rob!
I hate it when you get jobs like that, I never do a job without a site check and have turned down many jobs like that.
“won’t touch it gov, too many risks of it falling down, get a joiner in to sort it out then give us a call”
They never call back, and they would expect you to do all the extra work for free.
NO CHANCE, BEEN THERE, DONE IT & GOT THE T-SHIRT.
Almost forgot…sign looks good too! -
I would say, that was a s@~* job well done!!
Nik
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I thought it was just me who got the crap jobs like that. I’ve just removed a 16′ x 4′ foamex panel that was NAILED to an old timber panel. Bloody nailed!
What a transformation, looks brillo Rob. Boxing in the edges tidies it up a treat.
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Well done Rob – Excellent work as usual. – I hope you bill him for the extra work involved.
I’m no longer suprised at how often the owner of a shop with a fascia board that is rotting away thinks the answer is to buy a new sign. 🙄
Like Mike, I in these situations I always tell the client that he needs to get a joiner to replace the rotten wood before we can attach a new sign.
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You did a great job, as usual.
BUT
I want to see a picture of the 100-year-old sign too!
Customers….what looks easy to them is a big pain in the butt for us!
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Cracking work Rob!!
You turned it into something very nice indeed!!
Carrie -
nice one jill 😉
Nik
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Hi Rob,
A great opportunity missed! Who knows, sign number 8 could have been the straw that broke the camels back – and the pavement :lol1:
Nice job, looks really great, classic and clear.
Mark
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What a transformation Rob
Excellent job
HHMmmmmmmmmm! 7 signs?
Could be ominous Rob;
7 signs given in the book of Revelation (angel) (angel) (angel)
Incidentally: Who gets rid of all that rubbish?
If you take it for him do you get charged for commercial waste?
Did you add this onto his bill?John
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now for a STUPID novice question! 😳 but something ive always wondered and your sign jogged my memory, but how do you line up the ‘floating letters’. I only do vinyl signs and i really like the effect the cut out (floating) letters give, i presume i could buy these in but not sure of how they arrive ?? Are they built up and have some sort of template? I cant think of anything worse than having to line up each individual letter on site!!!
thanks
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Excellent Rob!
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OH WOW Rob, you are the man. Great job buddy!
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Good work Rob.
I bet the air was blue when sorting that mess out. -
hm.. i cant either
Rob, nice story mate… so that *could* tell you that the occupants of the shop are on short leases or go bust very quickly, make sure payments are in order
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hi dave
the payment came in without any issues mate. 👍
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As ever Rob the mutts nuts!
I must say I have had a few where there have been 3 or 4 signs over the top of each other but that is taking the pi$$.
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Wow – what a job! I reckon you should have got him to sign the lease over to you after all that.
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thanks for the replies/comments guys.
we live and learn eh?
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