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  • Supplier of material to make a stencil for concrete floor?

    Posted by Craig Bond on 17 June 2008 at 14:54

    I have a customer who requires some stencils for the floor of his factory. The floor is a skimmed concrete one so it is quite smooth. He is using plywood stencils at the moment with a liquid paint but his paint is seeping under the plywood and making a mess of his letters. The stencils need to be re-usable.

    Has anyone made stencils like this before and also what sort of paint should he be using?

    The area to be stenciled is about 4ft x 4ft.

    Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

    Cheers

    Craig

    Craig Bond replied 17 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Fran Hollywood

    Member
    17 June 2008 at 18:30

    The customer could reuse his plywood stencils but use a rubber trim, on the edge of the letter, to stop the paint from spreading out. I saw a board that used a draft excluder type of strip pinned to the edge, it helped to prevent the bleeding of the paint.

  • Craig Brown

    Member
    17 June 2008 at 20:36

    Give AT Brown a call very helpful and stencils is their game.

    http://www.atbrown.co.uk/comersus/store/comersus_stencils.asp

    Paint wise go for a spray can and an old trick is to knock the bottom out of a cardboard box, place that over the stencil and spray into the box (stops all the over spray) that’s how I used to do Skips for one of our old customers and it worked a treat. 😎

  • John Harding

    Member
    17 June 2008 at 22:46

    Apply vinyl graphic to garden pond liner butyl rubber Cut stencil out, and spray through, thats what a mate of mine does dunno what paint though – hope it helps

    John

  • Craig Bond

    Member
    18 June 2008 at 07:10

    Thank you to you all for your replies

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