Suggestions please - I want to make a simple "To Let" sign - just showing those words plus my phone number, however I want it to look professional (like an estate agents' board). Needs to be stiff (ie sticks out from the wall), double-sided; bit bigger than A4 and weatherproof, so I can use it again in the future. Don't want to pay a pro signwriter!
Any suggestions please?
Thanks
Some kind of rigid plastic sheet - the type that has a corrugated bit sandwiched between two smooth plastic sides - sure somebody will be along with a name. Then some transfers would probably be the best idea for the text - I'm sure most sheds/hardware shops will do these (usually in sheets on the end of an isle somewhere - seen them hundreds of times but probably wouldn't be able to find them if I needed to!)
| Suggestions please - I want to make a simple "To Let" sign - just showing | those words plus my phone number, however I want it to look professional | (like an estate agents' board). Needs to be stiff (ie sticks out from the | wall), double-sided; bit bigger than A4 and weatherproof, so I can use it | again in the future. Don't want to pay a pro signwriter!
Do it on the computer and laminate it. Make sure that drawing pins only go through the transparent bit.
How about having a number plate made which says "TO LET TO LET" - and then cutting it in half and sticking the 2 halves back to back. [Or *two* number plates, if it won't all go on one.] Halfords should be able to make it for you - but you might have fun proving that you are the registered owner of the vehicle!
Make one in A4 on your computer. Take it to a copy shop and get a double size copy made - pennies. They should have a choice of paper colours. Would cost more for a real colour copy, though. Stick this on cardboard, etc. Wrap carefully with shrink wrap film.
Steal a "Toilet" sign and rub out the "i"
Get an estate agent's white plastic sign (discarded in any alleyway around here) and turn the corrugated plastic inside out.
Then go to Tesco and buy an A4 laminator for 15 quid.
Print a paper sign, maybe some hand artwork or colouring. Laminate it, stick it to the correx plastic and bang it in.
No need for all that "registered owner" malarkey, order one from one of many suppliers on ebay who will do you numberplates without any such checking.
It's so obviously stupid, how can you make it 'illegal' to produce a piece of plastic with some writing on it?
Get a bit of 4mm WBP ply of the right size, prime it and paint it the colour(s) you want (tubes of cheap acrylic paint, or emulsion sample pots, will probably do just fine). Print a couple of copies of the wording in a suitable size using word processing/DTP or similar software (it doesn't need to be all in one go) cut it up and arrange it on the board, fix with low-tack spray adhesive (from art/craft supply shop). Cut around the edge of the letters with a sharp scalpel, peel off the waste and stencil in the colour of your choice - peel the stencil away while the paint is still wet. When it's throughly dry finish with two or three coats of exterior varnish.
Alex.
Maybe your local school would have an A3 laminator you could ask to use
- for a suitable donation (packet of choccie biccies for secretary ?) hth Neil
Piece of plastic sheet, or painted wood with a selection of stick-on car number plate letters.
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