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where can i source Hospital Brown Darvic please?
Yup, that ‘poo brown’ stuff that the hospitals use!
Anybody got A) about 4 foot square…or B) a reasonably priced supplier.
Thanks
Dave
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Robert Horne group,3mm engraving laminate
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Thought they had all changed to blue now 😕
Dave
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Anyway – got a hold some. Flippin’ expensive for essentially brown PVC.
Dave, still using brown round here – well that’s what the architect’s specified.
dave
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If it’s any help the Darvic range used to have a hospital brown PVC, we used to buy it from a major plastic distributor based in Manningtree, Essex – tried to Goggle them but had no luck finding any contact info.
This sign company used to specialize in supplying hospital signage
http://www.drakardsigns.co.uk/index.asp
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We once did a full new wing and all exterior signage for a local hospital using that brown material.
as has been said, expensive and nothing special about it either. from memory it was hard to cut properly as it would chip easy.
you have to think why use this type of expensive material, when really there is no need. with the debts the NHS have, having to close down hospitals and more. you have to think who the hell is giving the knod to use this type of thing?
(i wont name the person or the sign firm), but a Friend of mine bought a Glasgow sign firm due to the owner retiring and moving to OZ.
Anyway, he asked me to go in and look at some orders that were lying ready to be dispatched. he said he could not work out the pricing structure, "if there actually was one" and asked me to take a look and give him my thoughts on it. one in particular was some hospital door signs. he handed me 6 strips of 2mm aluminum approx 2" x 16", sprayed a specific shade of Grey. it had vinyl lettering applied to it and then clear coated with a lacquer sealing the text and paintwork
i was guessing at the price. i knew it was going to be high or he wouldn’t have been asking me. i guessed £12 each if it hadn’t been specific paints. but said £25-30 each seeing as it had specific paint shades.
he laughed and said something like £215 each!!! then handed me the invoice.
this company supplied schools, councils etc but specialies in NHS work and had done around 10 years.
he walked around pointing to other small signs quoting ridiculous prices.
something wasn’t right!
i know larger companies pay over the odds to get their work done consistently right. but this was plain plain stupid. -
Robert, what you describe comes as no surprise, we are governed by halfwits and generally anything remotely connected with government (any party) will be inefficient, run by inept overpaid morons and cost 4 times+ what it should be in the real world.
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