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Funny you should be working on this one....I did my first eradicated awning in about 8 years yesterday and it is a piece of cake.
As for your questions, the first thing you want to do is cut a mask for whatever letters you want to put on the awning, and apply that. You want to mask the area around for a good bit too, and this is important. You do not want so much as a drop of this on the naked fabric where you don't want it.
As for the chemical itself, just put a liberal amount on a cloth or even a paper towel and just wipe the saturated cloth over the mask. The color will IMMEDIATELY start dissolving....
I would go over the whole thing once and then successive times with new rags until you have eliminated ALL of the pigment from the areas.
This is important as well, because if you miss any it will show.
that all said, we did ours from start to finish yeasterday in about an hour, maybe not that long.
Easy easy easy just mask and protect the fabric where you don't want to remove the color!
Barry
Email me or call and i will help all I can, if you need it.
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Nevahoidofit before...does this "bleach" (so to speak) the fabric to white?
Can you do this with sunbrella, or just older model canvas awning material?
What kind of time frame we lookin at and can you paint inside the area after you've removed the awning's pigment? (to leave a "decal edge" look around the new artwork?)
*decal edge - like a white border around the outer edge of the design, much like you see on decals that have been screen printed and die-cut.
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Cooley brite is an awning fabric in which the colour is eradicable, in other words, its a special product designed for this.
There are other brands as well, the newest and nicest looking of which is by Dickson, called Eradilite. Smoother than cooley, and Im told more pigment stable.
You can get it from Western Rim Industries. Heres their contact info in the USA:
1312 Main Street Oroville Washington 98844 1-800-663-2377
They sent me all sorts of samples too.
Thanks again guys for all yor help.
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