Temporary floor graphics?

[David Rowland]

how about a little projector with a made up logo placed in it… great fun for parties

but i would use Pernament Avery and not think twice when lifting it the day after, a wipe with Tar and Glue remover should do it.

[Harry Cleary]

I used permanent vinyl on a floor for a christmas theme and after a season of dancing and festivities the vinyl lifted great swathes of the varnish. Luckily he was redoing the lounge anyway. I would be wary and certainly won’t do it again.

[David Rowland]

good point.. i was not 100% on my thoughts, just the glue might not have settled.

[Peter Normington]

John
if its for one night, use the cheapest digi print material. something like md3, for example, and dont bother to laminate

Peter

[Robert Lambie]

i would just put down regular digital. what harry says is worth considering but i doubt the adhesive will have time to cure/bite in the short time its down.

i personally wouldn’t bother with anti-slip… that’s probably not the best advice i should give you. but i doubt the vinyl will be any slippier than a polished, varnished wooden floor.

[Phil Newby]

Floor decals are known as floor stickers used for promotional purposes in companies. But floor stickers on a wooden floor sound crazy. What will be the lifespan of stickers on the wooden floor? How can we remove them?

[Martin Pearson]

Robert your probably right about it being no worse than a polished wooden floor but would an insurance company look at it that way if someone did slip and decide to try claiming??

In actual fact anti slip might make it worse if you have a polished floor because you would suddenly have a bit of grip in small areas. From an insurance point of view I’m not sure I would want to take the chance of just leaving it though.

[Robert Lambie]

Martin, I agree with you mate… but we have personally supplied some of, if not the biggest vinyl floor graphics in the world. all done in "cut vinyl". From memory, the one we did in Glasgow had over 350,000 visitors walking over it in only a few months. i recon the format in how the floors we do are laid, help aid grip. but no more than that of a wood floor, Marble floor, or even vinyl flooring for a kitchen.

[Martin Pearson]

Robert I know all about the floors you have done and have commented on how impressive they look. With this being temporary advertising I just thought it might be the same as they have in the supermarkets which I thought had to have an anti slip covering.

[Robert Lambie]

Yeh thats what i mean Martin… as i said mate "i do agree with you". i know about anti-skid and H&S side of it. My point is, we advise based on each job in hand by some of the biggest galleries in the world. We send them various samples along with technical spec by the manufacturers… even some tests are based on the adhesive used, others on how flammable the product is etc. they then come back and "tell us" what has to be used based on their own tests on whats been sent. have to say though… every time its regular cut vinyl… the only time we do anything different is some times the entire floor has to be covered in a water based vinyl film then graphics applied on top. this is down to removal issues incase adhesive is left on the marbel floors.

as i said earlier in thread…

quote Robert Lambie:

“that’s probably not the best advice i should give you.”

but is honest advice, just based on my own finds. obviously every job, spec, location etc is different and you must cover yourself at all times.
and i am sure if you ask any health and safety officer, should anti-skid be used, the no brainer answer will be yes.