How-To Apply and Remove Self Adhesive Vinyl Stickers
Application and Removal of Self Adhesive Vinyl Stickers and Labels
How to apply our vinyl stickers.
Our vinyl stickers can be applied dry or wet. Small stickers are normally applied dry. Just peel them off the sheet and stick them down. To apply wet, see below*
Clear stickers may be applied wet. The advantage is that there will be no air bubbles and they dry crystal clear. Larger stickers, whether white or clear, are better and more easily applied wet.
How to apply our vinyl stickers wet:
for example a 600×600 mm sticker on Perspex
- Mix up a solution. Half fill a 2 litre plastic ‘Coke’ bottle with cold tap water. Add a small squirt of Fairy dish washing up liquid (or similar). Shake the bottle really hard, so that the water goes slightly green and the top half of the bottle is filled with suds.
- Put the Perspex on a bench. Place the sticker face down on the Perspex. Peel the backing sheet away, leaving the adhesive on the sticker exposed. Pour the solution on to the adhesive. Work it in to the adhesive using your fingers and palm of your hand. The wetter the better.
- Turn the sticker over on to the Perspex. Pour more of the solution on to the face of the print. Using the palm of your hand and fingers gently ease as much of the fluid that’s on the adhesive side, out to the edges, so that the sticker lays flat.
- Place the backing sheet on to the face of the print. Use a squeegee (that we can supply) to squeeze the remaining fluid out, working from the centre.
- Dry the surface with a towel. Be careful not to damage the face of the print.
When the sticker dries out, the adhesion will be strong, just as if it had been applied dry.
* To apply smaller stickers, pour some of the fluid into a tray and dip the sticker into it.
Removal of Self Adhesive Vinyl Stickers
Our vinyl stickers will not fall off, if correctly applied as above. They are designed to be removed relatively easily at the end of their useful life.
On a warm day the stickers will peel off fairly easily. On a cold day apply gentle heat from a hair dryer as you peel them. Clean any residue of adhesive with a cloth soaked in meths.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, would like a quote or would like to order, please phone our sales office on: 01908 520920 (direct line Monday to Friday 9am-5pm), email us at sales@abalabels.co.uk or use our enquiry form
Abacas Studios
4, Aldwycks Close
Shenley Church End
Milton Keynes MK5 6HZ
United Kingdom
email: sales@abalabels.co.uk
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