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Got done 3 weeks ago with a new customer ( Condo Mgt. Co. ) and put a few VISITOR PARKING signs in the ground. Talked the guy into some 4' tall 12 gauge galv. post ( hat posts? ) and it looked great. Yesterday, I drive past and some dilinquent(s) has "taco'd" all of them.
Should I call him before the Seniors in the complex call him ( if they haven't already ) and, if so, what do I say................."I'm sure it'll never happen again???? Or, "I'll make more for you and the same thing will probably, eventually happen again" Do I wait for him to call me?
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Over the years I've gotten into the habit of asking my clients in the interview process if they have ever had any problems with vandals.
Most will say no and some have had problems. By asking I make the point that it does and can happen and that gives me the opportunity to inform them that there is no preventing vandalism if its going to happen.
In essence what I am telling them is that I can't be responsible for it happening. This way they know it up front.
Yeah it sucks when it happens but not much you can do to avoid it. An additional sign of the times.
-------------------- Bob Stephens Skywatch Signs Zephyrhills, FL
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I do quite a bit of signage for apartments, where vandalism is often a problem. Because of the damage inflicted by these wayward ones, we often sell the management company on sandblasted Granite.
I tell them it is vandal resistant–they cannot carve their initials in it with a knife, if they spray paint it, we can scrape it off. Just about the only way they can damage it is with a hammer. Guess what some kids did to an expensive sign...
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5114 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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One Shot has a grafitti resistant clearcoat. I got to see it a few months ago at a meet. Pretty handy if you do work in areas where vandalism is a concern.
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I like my paint shaken, not stirred. Posts: 5648 | From: North Haverhill, New Hampshire | Registered: Apr 2003
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No I am not spending a penny to re-fix it. It just sucks that 3 weeks ago it went in the ground. If it were a year later, I wouldn't feel so bad. It's still fresh so I kinda feel like someone effed up my work of art - well.......parking signs anyway.
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so what Corey, ya did ya job and vandals distroyed them. So now ya gonna hang ya head and dwell on it as if it was some kind of work of art? As the pimp said, thats what insurance is for.
Wouldn't it have been nicer if you were to call the dude ya did the work for and said, Hey don't worry, I added a no vandal coating and all ya have to do is wash it off, or does that cost extra to look towards the future?
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
I replaced a smashed illuminated face on a sign under a shop awning twice in one month before the Insurance company wore the extra cost of using Lexon acrylic sheets. That stuff is almost bullet-proof.!
Shop owner mentioned to me a couple of weeks later he had found a fist print on the new sign face and a blood trail one morning
I replaced a smashed illuminated face on a sign under a shop awning twice in one month before the Insurance company wore the extra cost of using Lexon acrylic sheets. That stuff is almost bullet-proof.!
Shop owner mentioned to me a couple of weeks later he had found a fist print on the new sign face and a blood trail one morning
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Well, not harping on the destruction either. It's a small city where I live and I probably know the EFFER that did it. I come from Anaheim Calif. where you see vandalism (graffiti) all over....no biggie but, when you see it in a city of 10,000 - 20,000, it sure as hell stands out. I am not so ****ed at the signs as I am at vandalism in the City.
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It really hurts, to think tyhey're proud about this defacing though... I had two 10 x 4 ft signs ripped up a year ago- they were coated with Tedlar, and when these b*****s worked out their paint wouldn't stick, they carved onto the faces, through the coating with a knife or screwdriver. The signs had been up 2 days, in Toowoomba, under a streetlight on a main road. Airbrushed pictorial, airbrushed lettering... We fixed it easily, fortunately, but it still hurts.
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7017 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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EFFING VANDALS!!!!!!!! 
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