MontereySigns
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The good news a couple months ago was a commercial real estate company that we had been trying to earn business with for several years called to say they wanted to work with us. They had merged with another CRE business and needed to change all their signage as a result. Their first order would be eighty seven 4' x 8' signs on 1/2" MDO.
The bad new was they would need us to match pricing on their former out-of-area vendor and it was a deal-breaker if we couldn't do it. The price was $137 each. Of course I didn't want to say "No", but the pricing was just too low to make a reasonable profit considering the cost of the MDO, Intermediate grade vinyl and laminate, labor, and delivery.
However, I realized we would be taking down perfectly good 1/2" MDO from the old signs. I was tempted to re-use these boards but was fearful of poor adhesion and the disaster I would face if all the graphics on the signs started peeling because I re-used the old boards. Then I remembered the success we had had using the LG LD3880 Ultra-Tack adhesive vinyl. It was cheap enough to use on this project and I knew it would have a reliable bond to the MDO.
We figured it would cost an extra $4 per board for this ultra-tack vinyl but save us the roughly $50 per board by not having to buy new MDO. Multiplied by 87 this gave us over $4,000 in extra profit on this. Plus, we didn't have to send all those old boards to the landfill!
If you get a project like this you might consider what worked for us.
-Bud
The bad new was they would need us to match pricing on their former out-of-area vendor and it was a deal-breaker if we couldn't do it. The price was $137 each. Of course I didn't want to say "No", but the pricing was just too low to make a reasonable profit considering the cost of the MDO, Intermediate grade vinyl and laminate, labor, and delivery.
However, I realized we would be taking down perfectly good 1/2" MDO from the old signs. I was tempted to re-use these boards but was fearful of poor adhesion and the disaster I would face if all the graphics on the signs started peeling because I re-used the old boards. Then I remembered the success we had had using the LG LD3880 Ultra-Tack adhesive vinyl. It was cheap enough to use on this project and I knew it would have a reliable bond to the MDO.
We figured it would cost an extra $4 per board for this ultra-tack vinyl but save us the roughly $50 per board by not having to buy new MDO. Multiplied by 87 this gave us over $4,000 in extra profit on this. Plus, we didn't have to send all those old boards to the landfill!
If you get a project like this you might consider what worked for us.
-Bud
