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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Cleaner Windows on April 11, 2008, 09:04:28 am

Title: signwriting at last - escort van.
Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 11, 2008, 09:04:28 am
Thanks to a chap here on cleanitup, I found a reasonable sign writing company who made me two large logos for the side panels plus email addys and phone numbers for each, plus two smaller logos (for the bonnet and rear) with two lots of email addys and numbers, all for £80 delivered to my door...not bad eh!

They were delivered on Wednesday and I took the afternoon off to fit them. I've helped a mate out doing a few signs a couple of years back so learnt a bit about fitting the vinyl  and thought I might as well have a go at fitting these.

I didn't do too bad, bodged one tiny bit up where I managed to get a crinkle in one of the large logos but unless you're looking for it you would probably miss it. I didn't bother with the bonnet logo, instead I put it on my mrs rear window on her car along with numbers and email, twice the advertising me thinks?

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Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 11, 2008, 09:06:19 am
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Post by: jewelcleaning on April 11, 2008, 09:09:40 am
Nice Sign Writing.

Do you need your ladders to overhang so much at the back?

An insurance claim waiting to happen? ::)
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Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 11, 2008, 09:10:44 am
LOL, I won't be driving around like that, don't worry ;)
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Post by: cybersye on April 11, 2008, 09:11:39 am
like it !  ;)
like the way you thought outside the box as it were ( your logo going outside the edges of the grooved panel) i had a ford courier and the signage was'nt as big as I'd have liked because i kept inside the panels, good job
simon
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Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 11, 2008, 09:12:08 am
thanks mate!  :)
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Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 11, 2008, 09:13:07 am
actually to be fair, that was someone elses idea to make it bigger and tilt it like that, defo a good idea though!
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Post by: Paul Coleman on April 11, 2008, 09:28:47 am
Looks good.  Much more imaginative than my plain text effort.  Got mine done in Horsham - not so far from you.
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Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 11, 2008, 01:05:54 pm
Looks good.  Much more imaginative than my plain text effort.  Got mine done in Horsham - not so far from you.
what was the company shiner?? my mate owns a sign company in horsham, just wondering if it may be him?
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Post by: LWC on April 11, 2008, 01:12:33 pm
looks nice that.

defo move your ladders forward!! lol. i wont let mine over hang the back at all
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Post by: Paul Coleman on April 11, 2008, 01:15:40 pm
Looks good.  Much more imaginative than my plain text effort.  Got mine done in Horsham - not so far from you.
what was the company shiner?? my mate owns a sign company in horsham, just wondering if it may be him?

It was this company

http://www.signsfirst.co.uk/index.html
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Post by: Jimmy1 on April 11, 2008, 01:17:54 pm
Looks really great!
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Post by: jaykie on April 11, 2008, 01:20:28 pm
LWC what you doing with ladders as thought you where called ladderless

Chris
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Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 11, 2008, 01:21:38 pm
Looks good.  Much more imaginative than my plain text effort.  Got mine done in Horsham - not so far from you.
what was the company shiner?? my mate owns a sign company in horsham, just wondering if it may be him?

It was this company

http://www.signsfirst.co.uk/index.html
ahh right, it's not my mate then, his is called "sign language 2"
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Post by: LWC on April 11, 2008, 01:24:43 pm
LWC what you doing with ladders as thought you where called ladderless

Chris

dont you start, everyone says that...gets boring  ::)
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Post by: cvdewsbury on April 11, 2008, 02:43:42 pm
the sign has given your van a massive standout impact!!!  just one thought though does it actually say you are a window cleaner?
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Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 11, 2008, 04:48:42 pm
LOL I did think that too but I reckon you'd have to be some sort of divvy to not understand what its all about....but some mothers do av em i spose, maybe i'll get a little one made up also in white that says "window cleaning" or something just to stick underneath the logos!  8)
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Post by: gordonswindows on April 11, 2008, 05:09:08 pm

I think it looks great

i love the play on window cleaner.....cleaner window


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Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 11, 2008, 06:33:15 pm
thanks, believe it or not it took me ages to think of that!! only because I was thinking of names for it that were over complicated so I thought 'd just swap those two words round and then decided on cleaner windows in the belief the windows will be cleaner after I've cleaned them  ;D ;D :P
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Post by: Paul Coleman on April 11, 2008, 08:02:16 pm
Looks good.  Much more imaginative than my plain text effort.  Got mine done in Horsham - not so far from you.
what was the company shiner?? my mate owns a sign company in horsham, just wondering if it may be him?

It was this company

http://www.signsfirst.co.uk/index.html
ahh right, it's not my mate then, his is called "sign language 2"

That's a neat play on words for a company name.
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Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 11, 2008, 08:36:21 pm
yeah it used to be just "sign language" but he moved locations and decided that it would be better to call it sign language 2 in its new location.... personally I would have left it as it was though. :)
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Post by: tacky on April 11, 2008, 10:15:18 pm
like it .well presented .
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Post by: nat on April 12, 2008, 06:14:11 am
nice one dennis, it looks good mate ;) 8)
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Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 12, 2008, 07:22:49 am
thankyou guys!  :) :-*
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Post by: nat on April 12, 2008, 07:27:48 am
how did you find sticking it on at an angle and getting it into the grooves?
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Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 12, 2008, 07:44:39 am
how did you find sticking it on at an angle and getting it into the grooves?
Morning!
Yeah that was the hardest part to be honest (getting into the grooves), putting it on at an angle wasn't a problem apart from when it came to making the other side look the same but then that bits quite hard anyway because your signs will read with the first letter reading from the back to the front and the other side will read with the first letter running from the front to back if you know what I mean?

Didn't even bother with the logo going into the grooves in the back doors cos the grooves are different, I don't know how you would get the vinyl into grooves like that and get them to stay there :S

 8)
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Post by: nat on April 12, 2008, 07:49:05 am
well it looks like a good attempt to me  ;) it can be difficult getting the thing into the grooves, did you not get a sign for your bonnet?
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Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 12, 2008, 07:51:49 am
I did but when I offered it up to the bonnet I thought it would look ship to be honest so I put it on my mrs rear window on her car along with contact details and email addy
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Post by: nat on April 12, 2008, 07:53:37 am
fair enough!! ;) get the mrs advertising your business as well, i like it  ;D
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Post by: frames to panes on April 12, 2008, 08:00:13 am
Like it, simple to the point and you can't miss it.
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Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 12, 2008, 02:09:34 pm
picked up another job earlier cos of it, also got some interest for a future reference if the ladys wc'r ever lets her down ;)
all good!
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Post by: Paul Coleman on April 12, 2008, 04:57:18 pm

I think it looks great

i love the play on window cleaner.....cleaner window




If he goes WFP, he will probably call it Wash & Reach.
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Post by: Cleaner Windows on April 13, 2008, 10:36:20 am
LOL ;)