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Vehicle wrapping advice please?
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How long does it take to fully wrap a mini, not including the printing and laminating?
Can one guy on his own do it? How long for that?
Cheers
Simon
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it took me two days on my own 😀
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do you mean you are going to do this yourself?
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Nicolas right, about two days. Easier and quicker with 2 tho!!
Good luck!
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Thanks for your replies.
I am going to do a 3m wrap course next month. I wanted to know if one can expect a reasonable return for what you can charge for the job. Am I right in thinking a mini fully wrapped is normally about a grand (pounds) in the uk? Or is that on the low side? -
great many variables in pricing.
for a start…
solid colour wrap will greatly differ from a digitally printed wrap on the same vehicle.but yes, you should look at £1000 as a "starting" mark on wrapping this sort of sized car.
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Yes Rob of course, Im thinking digitally printed.
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2 sets of hands definitely better than one, for lots of reasons. I have a young lad that works for me, he gets approx £50-75 a day depending on his productivity.
When it comes to wrapping, he does all the trim and prep, then I check and have him do it again if required. I would say that is the best part of half a day on it’s own, so to me having him help me out for £100 for a couple of days is definitely worth the money, mostly because I can get on with other things instead of wasting my valuable time prepping (i’m worth £40 an hour, he costs me £7, you do the maths)
I would definitely say that an extra bod when your wrapping is a must, nothing worse than getting your knickers in a twist when the material doesn’t go the way you want it too, and having that extra pair of hands to hold it in the right direction while heating and stretching pays dividends when it comes to possible material wastage, not something you want to be doing with a cast print. losing that will set you back another day at least!.
Plus when I’m done, he’s there to put the trim back, super heat if required, clean up and make ready the car for delivery… again cheaper to have him do it than have to pay myself, if you see what I mean?
I can get a small car/van wrapped in a day with two people and still be able to answer emails, do quotes etc.
We do bonnet (hood) wraps together in 30 mins including prep!
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quote :I can get a small car/van wrapped in a day with two people and still be able to answer emails, do quotes etc.We do bonnet (hood) wraps together in 30 mins including prep!
I would like to see that on video – no need for fast forward !
John[/quote]
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John, i agree this is a bit of a quick fitting mo describes mate. but is doable. a flat bonnet with gentle corves near the front etc is easy fitted without heat. ganted some do need heat but you know what i mean?
regardless of time taken, you should be looking for around £100 profit from it. so dont rush it and get it right! -
When I say day rob, that’s not your conventional 8 hour day. Typically we would have the car there the night before, we would start at 8am with trim and prep, That’s usually a couple of hours to do it properly. We would typically finish around 6-7 if its a basic job without many recesses such as a connect. The trim will go back on the following day (that allows me to check for failures and quality of finish first) once the trim is back on, I give it another once over and if I’m happy I will let it sit for a few hours and a final check about lunchtime, and then phone the customer to collect.
So if I was being completely exact with my times, I would say its probably about 14 hours work from start to trim being back on.
Sometimes we leave the finish till the next day depending on how we have got on with the job.
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Two good wrappers can do a connect in about 5 hours. Nice easy van.
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quote Robert Lambie:regardless of time taken, you should be looking for around £100 profit from it. so dont rush it and get it right!At least £100 I would say…
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With Sky/Avc SWB Transits we do 2 a day, 2 guys……
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quote Craig Ross:quote Robert Lambie:regardless of time taken, you should be looking for around £100 profit from it. so dont rush it and get it right!
At least £100 I would say…
I think rob means just the bonnet craig
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Oh fair enough, I’ll let him off then. 🙂
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yes, definitely just the bonnet Craig.
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My mistake Rob. 🙂
Right I best get some work done now!
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Hi Guys,
Well first and foremost, my obvious reaction would be that speed and quality do not necessarily go hand in hand! At the end of the day we all have our own techniques and way of doing things so we will invariably have different time scales also. I personally allow 8 man hours for a full wrap on a mini… And this is for application only, not cleaning etc, but no doubt some people may take longer and i’m sure people are also quicker?!
I am not too far off Mo’s timescales for a bonnet, an average bonnet wrap would take me 20/30 minutes also, but this is material dependent… I obviously favour Controltac products as these re-position easy!
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