My customer wanted a a 10'x4' substrate for their sign so I ordered them some PolyMetal material. They also wanted to save money and paint it themselves. I knew I was to router cut some signs to mount onto this thing but had no idea they were bringing it back after they painted it. They brought the thing back and it leaned against the vinyl siding on my office/showroomall weekend. Now there's a 10' streak of thick tan latex paint stuck fast to my taupe wall.
So, I get out there with some Goof Off asnd rub the stupid mess off and now the vinyl is discolored. What to do? Rub the whole wall down with Goof Off to match? And send the customer the bill? Trying to smile Posted by Bill Wood (Member # 6543) on :
You shall be better off to clean it yourself.If they didn't have funds to let you do the sign job in the beginning,they certainly wouldn't be able to pay for their mistake.Best motto...Fix it...forget it!
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
Whatever you do is not going to change the fact that you have a discolored wall and that you are going to have to either fix it yourself or pay someone else to do it...and it all comes out of your pocket.
Feel better now?
Or you could cry, jump up and down, and cuss a lot...and then refer back to the paragraph above.
Life is like that a lot of the time. A hundred years from now what difference will it make?
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
You can't fix stupid ... but you can fix that wall!
Posted by jack wills (Member # 521) on :
Try some "Bon-Ami"
Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
I need more that "Bon Ami", my good friend. I need a vacation!
On top of that...I TOLD them it would have to be sprayed on...cuz they want vinul onit. Guess wut? They rolled it and it looks like interior flat house paint textured with stucco. Gonna take a miracle to get the stickers to stick on that. I'm smiling ......see? Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
Just add more 10ft lines to the wall and call it "art".
[ April 25, 2011, 05:28 PM: Message edited by: Glenn Taylor ]
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
Take a deep breath. It will be OK. You know, you could be having to work for a living.
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
Are you sure the smoke from that conflagration you had wasn't what discolored the wall?
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
"conflagration"? Harding, could you use words that us common folks can understand?
Posted by jack wills (Member # 521) on :
Yeh, but as you know...David, that (smoke) is a happy confliaurgtation. Huh?
Posted by Lynda Yoder (Member # 7340) on :
Can you still get that vinyl siding? Maybe you can replace that area.
Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
quote:Originally posted by David Harding: Are you sure the smoke from that conflagration you had wasn't what discolored the wall?
No, couldn't have been that. I let the "D" word slip once but fortunately it was pointed away from the building and dissipated quickly into the atmosphere. And I'm sorry for doing that. Please forgive me. But I surprised myself as it was very short and I cooled off much more quickly than in the past. Is it old age?
Anyway...like Ray said, it's only a thing. Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lynda Yoder: Can you still get that vinyl siding? Maybe you can replace that area.
Lynda, I believe the company who made the VS is out of business. Actually, I hope to someday be able to afford to face it with stone or cultured stone, about three feet up the bottom of the wall. I don't know how soon I can make that happen but, if I do, I can replace the damaged piece with one from the bottom of the wall. . After 11 1/2 years, it's time for a remodel anyway
Posted by Ron Costa (Member # 3366) on :
When its finished, deliver it to them... and lean it against their dog....
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
Personally, I'd have put the brakes on this job 10 seconds after I found how badly they had coated it. Sure, everyone likes to save a buck, but I have my limits.
What may save THEM some costs usually means having to go through extra grief on our end. Crappy materials, poor paint coatings, "supplied" substrates that have been horribly refurbished...any can mean having to invest extra time/materials into getting past their "savings".
I've seen everything from CDX plywood coated with spray cans to cars with rolled on paint to 30 year old, yellowed by age backlit signs over the years. Eventually, you have to decide whether you're saving them money or losing your own trying to make chicken salad out of chicken $hyt.
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What to do? Rub the whole wall down with Goof Off to match? And send the customer the bill? Trying to smile ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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