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These are new shop doors. They have six of them. Should I use paint or vinyl for this job?
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Just had to stir the pot a little, huh Alicia?
My vote would be for paint because the edges of the vinyl in the grooves where the door rolls up is going to look terrible in a few months. And it's black, so there is less chance of premature fading and failing.
-------------------- Chapman Sign Studio Temple, Texas chapmanstudio@sbcglobal.net Posts: 6306 | From: Temple, Texas, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I would also paint because you would save alot on vinyl and transfer tape. The trick would be set-up, either step ladders with a plank or extension ladders, plank and jacks. I know the same follows thru for vinyl. And with Black paint, no need for second coats. Did they add six more doors?
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I was hoping most of yous would vote for paint. I have a scaffold to work off of. And I was concerned on how I was going to get the vinyl to slightly wrap into the crevases of the door. Besides, I luv painting. I get to set up my scaffold, put on the radio and paint away. Plus I also thought about in a few years when the whole building needs repainting. It'd be easier to sand and repaint then the "or so boring" alternative of vinyl removal, with the adhesive caca all over the place. Hey look, Steve didn't catch the word "caca". "Caca Caca!"
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3814 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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One more for the paint crowd. After removing vinyl off a van for almost a whole day yesterday and a whole gallon of acetone later....I VOTE PAINT!
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I probably would use Vinyl, but, maybe you should paint the stripes, there's already Horizontal lines there as guides.. and use Vinyl for the Numbers.
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SIGNS1st. Neil Butler Paradise, NF Posts: 6277 | From: St. John's NF Canada | Registered: Mar 1999
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Paint, 6 doors,..$750 The patterns for digits can be used for more doors. After taping quickly with fineline, I would roll on paint and "tip off" with larger painter's brush.
-------------------- Rich Stebbing RichSigns Rohnert Park CA 707-795-5588 Posts: 755 | From: Rohnert Park, CA | Registered: Nov 1998
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