Testing vinyl on painted surface.

[Andy D]

I normally do everything I can to avoid applying vinyl directly on painted surfaces, but I got stuck with one.
The problem is the vinyl will be shipped to the customer & is too far away for my to test.
I sent a color sample to the customer, if I have him apply that color sample and let it sit for 3-4 days, would that
pretty much show if the vinyl will fail or not? If vinyl is going to fail, does it start lifting in a day or two?

 

[Gino]

Painted what and with what ??

Different things take different times to fail. There's a myriad of things to make vinyl fail besides just incompatibility. Temperature, paint additives, sheen, poor technique, post heating, no post heating, texture, time lapse of painting/curing time of paint, then that of the vinyl supplied.

 

[signage]

Andy are you familiar with 3m adhesion testing for painted surface? watch this

 

[victor bogdanov]

All the decals I sell get applied directly to painted surfaces (painted drywall). Failure to adhere is very rare, Maybe 0.1% and only happens with removable adhesive vinyl, permanent hasn't failed yet. First sign that the vinyl might not stick is having a hard time removing the transfer tape

 

[Zendavor Signs]

I normally do everything I can to avoid applying vinyl directly on painted surfaces, but I got stuck with one.
The problem is the vinyl will be shipped to the customer & is too far away for my to test.
I sent a color sample to the customer, if I have him apply that color sample and let it sit for 3-4 days, would that
pretty much show if the vinyl will fail or not? If vinyl is going to fail, does it start lifting in a day or two?

I would just sell them high tack vinyl, otherwise a failure is on you.