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reflective apartment door lettering

wwyd?

  • 040 aluminum panel with reflective sheeting and cut vinyl letters

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 040 aluminum panel with printed reflective vinyl

    Votes: 3 23.1%
  • 040 aluminum panel with cut reflective

    Votes: 2 15.4%
  • printed reflective applied directly to door

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • cut reflective applied directly to door

    Votes: 8 61.5%

  • Total voters
    13
  • Poll closed .

fresh

New Member
I have a job labeling the back doors (painted steel) of a large apartment complex. They have to be reflective... which way would you do it? Its qty 150 doors, and the numbers will be about 2.5" tall.

If i use alumin, I'll installed it with VHB.
 

letterman7

New Member
You'll also need to check to see if there is a specific fire code regulation for height. There is around here.
 

bannertime

Active Member
I do these for a commercial painter in my area. When we do door numbers and such they are about 4-6in and when we do Riser Room and other code related stuff they are about 2-3in. They apply the 3M 5100 directly to the doors after they paint them.
 

Billct2

Active Member
I'd do printed reflective on .063 aluminum. Seems like the job would go quicker, no issues with the surface of the door, and the signs can be reused if doors are painted
 

Rick

Certified Enneadecagon Designer
Odd, I always thought NJ required only fire related rooms to have the reflective signs so they can locate them fast...

When I have done them, there were not that many, I always designed them with undersized backers so sloppy maintenance can paint around them without sloshing paint all over them....
 

Gino

Premium Subscriber
Odd, I always thought NJ required only fire related rooms to have the reflective signs so they can locate them fast...

When I have done them, there were not that many, I always designed them with undersized backers so sloppy maintenance can paint around them without sloshing paint all over them....


I believe those are FDC signs or building numbers, not individual units. Fire Departments need to know from a block away if they are in the right vicinity, not the exact door. Anyway, around here, it's like that.
 

fresh

New Member
Odd, I always thought NJ required only fire related rooms to have the reflective signs so they can locate them fast...

When I have done them, there were not that many, I always designed them with undersized backers so sloppy maintenance can paint around them without sloshing paint all over them....

These aren't required by fire code, the client wants them because it's not the nicest area. These are the back-doors of the apartments.
 

Rick

Certified Enneadecagon Designer
These aren't required by fire code, the client wants them because it's not the nicest area. These are the back-doors of the apartments.

Makes sense... you don't have this as an option but I would use painted aluminum panel, reverse-cut the numbers out...
 

bannertime

Active Member
Bad area? Stick them on the door or the crackheads will try to scrap the aluminum.

Lol, I'd have honestly said you were crazy, but some time last year a customer proved this to me. He told me the signs needed to be screwed into the concrete wall. He said that they'd get stolen. I convinced him that we could tape them up and they'd fine. I honestly thought he exaggerating the situation, but one did get stolen within a month. Went back out and screwed the rest in.

Last month we had one of my scrap customers haul off a bunch of old aluminum signs. They were hesitant to take some of them, we convinced them it'd be okay. We got a call a few hours later asking if we could confirm the signs came from us.
 
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