Managing material problems

I would not put the vinyl on painted drywall. Bound to fail.

Put the dry erase on some kind of panel (like ACM) and mount it to the wall.

 

If the new material covers the paint issue and you can't see it, I would just do that. Also, we have had issues where paint comes off when removing wall graphics and 99% of the time it's because the painter didn't prime the wall properly. I had one large wall graphic where we pulled it off and it perfectly pulled the paint off the drywall tape only because the painter didn't wipe the drywall dust off the wall before painting and they didn't prime.

 

Over the years we've had so many variations of this, we simply try not to adhere anything to a wall, without physical fasteners. Some walls were painted a week before and others a year before with some 5 years before. It all depends on the paint they used, not to mention if it was professionally painted..... the painters might've taken some of their own shortcuts. When painting professionals paint walls of large areas, they will box their paint to ensure no paint variations, plus when they cut the paint, it won't show up either. However, cutting the paint will change the whole recipe and durability overall of the finished product. Bubbles, lifting(curling) and premature failure is many times the result of the paint and no vinyl manufacturer will stand behind their product when not properly used.

You're probably gonna hafta eat painting the wall over again, if you didn't stipulate that in the beginning. All of our quotes will carry a line item, that if any of the many possible failures occur, we will not be responsible for refinishing or repainting the walls. The owner/tenants must do that.

We had one, where the signs started oozing around and off the one wall of a building. This wall faced the morning and afternoon sun and it cooked down there. This was in Maryland and they wanted us to replace the signs for free and re-do the wall. The wall was about 500' long and 17' tall. and about a 5 hour trip one way. Nothing else in the whole store went bad, just this front wall. Luckily, the store wasn't due to open for another 2 or 3 weeks, so I went down to investigate. After literally,100's and 100's of these signs in all their other stores.... this store had a failure, but on one wall. So, I removed one of our signs and it was like a liquid mess back there..... exactly the outline of the sign hanging there. So, I did another one and the same thing. Our lift was 19', plus with us in it, another 6', so I went to the top and pulled a wall panel off. Turned out, the company who was renovating the store... building-wise didn't insulate the front wall form 9' up. They thought they'd save on insulation, time and whatnot and skip it. They thought with it being an air controlled temperature store, it wouldn't matter that high up, as heat rises. Our signs were around 14'. Between no installation and our signs they cooked back there and created so much condensation, the signs started sliding off the wall. I took pictures of everything with a lengthy explanation and guess who hadda pay for everything, including new signs and an extra trip to go down and instal them ?? Not this guy.

We've also seen the painters boxing their paint while we were at other stores. They think they're sly, and while the store people don't know what's going on, their thinking is, if they can save 1/2 to 3/4's of a gallon on every 5 gallon pail, they're saving a lotta money. These stores are generally about 225k to 250k sq ft, so that's a lotta saved paint, not to mention insulation for the other guys.

 

Do they turn the AC off over the weekends?
I had a set of 4 murals on phototex in an office building go up in August, and after thanksgiving break they called about bubbles. I just readhered everything when I couldn't find an issue, and when this happened again after Christmas, I found out they close their offices for a week during both holidays and turn the heat down.