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will wet vinyl dry out properly?
Opened the unit up this morning after heavy rain last night and o dear water all over the workshop floor from leaking roof, i go into the cutting room where all the vinyl is on 4 racks and 1 of the racks the water has gone all over the rolls of vinyl starting from the top 1 and run off that and carried on all the way over 10 rolls of vinyl, iv pulled some 3/5mtrs of vinyl off the rolls and the backing paper is sopping wet.
Will this dry out ok or best to scrap it ? iv laid the rolls out hoping they will dry and be ok but the backing paper is already starting to ripple a little bit, its oracal 751c vinyl btw.
Thx Alan -
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Alan,
Sorry to hear of your probably ruined vinyl. In my experience, once the vinyl backing paper has got wet it turns to a sort of mulchy powdery mess. I can only suggest slicing off the affected bit and have the rolls say 1000m wide instead of 1220mm wide as a sort of damage limitation.
A few years ago my ex boss decided to remove the asbestos sheeting from the roof of our sign workshop here in Cardiff. We didn’t quite get the new steel cladded roof on in time so at 4pm Christmas Eve he decided to ‘temporarily’ place the sheets over the most vulnerable areas of the wotkshop ie the plotter, computer and vinyl, and keep his fingers crossed until the day after Boxing Day when the job would be finished.
Imagine my suprise (?!) when I stepped into a lake on opening the door on Dec 27th and spotted a dribble of water running down the underneath of one of these sheets directly onto the cutting mechanism of our Graphtec plotter! Of all the places to drip! It cost him £700 to have it fixed a couple of grand in cancelled orders and another £500 for two years because they wouldn’t touch it without a service contract! Poor man.
Regds
Gareth
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I have business insurance on my office/garage contents.
Can you turn in a claim if you have similar insurance?
Surely the vinyl is all ruined, and it won’t be cheap to replace.
I wouldn’t chance trying to salvage any of it.
Love….Jill -
Oh, bad one.
Any experience I’ve had of accidently soaked vinyl / backing paper has always resulted in scrap. The silicon coating detaches from the paper & sticks to the adhesive if it’s even slightly damp.
Lost time in drying & using stock that you can’t trust v lost stock v losing ‘no-claims’ on the insurance…best of the evils time.
Maybe phone the supplier to see if they have any advice. eg. keep it rolled / lay flat. Heater / dehumidifier. etc.
Dave
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Iv scrapped the 1st 3/5mtrs of the various rolls as they were just crinkling up as the dried so sod it i cut it off. nitemare nevery mind at least the cutter was dry 😀 always keep a plastic dust cover over that when i leave, i dont really want to make a insurance claim on £75/100 of vinyl it will proberly cost me twice that when i renew it next year because of a claim, just renewed it yesterday aswell lol, Insurance company have now told me im only insured to work at heights of upto 10mtrs now, she says that is now the standard height for liability insurance! mmmm, take it i just use a parachute after the 3rd floor of a building lol 🙄
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