Comments on: Setting prices for a new line of business http://smallbusiness.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2008/05/28/setting-prices-for-a-new-line-of-business/ Editors from FSB magazine answer your pressing small-business questions. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:07:19 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mike Holland, Atlanta, GA http://smallbusiness.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2008/05/28/setting-prices-for-a-new-line-of-business/#comment-682 Mike Holland, Atlanta, GA Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:45:39 +0000 http://askfsb.wordpress.com/?p=316#comment-682 I feel that I need to give you a little advice on the idea of pressure washing signs. Even though I am the Managing Partner for Net-Flow Solutions, an IT Managed Services firm. I have a long history in the sign business. My grandfather started a sign business in 1924, and my father at age 70 still runs it in Ohio. If you are going to pressure wash signs made out of Vinyl you might want to test it on your own signs first. Typically, the PSI of the washers is to much for the vinyl and will tear/rip it from the backing (wood, metal, etc). I can remember when my dad was the first signman in the area to move from hand painted letters to computerized sign making back in the 1980s... He would always tell customers "now you got to be careful with the lettering if you take your vehicle through a car wash". Also i am assuming your talking about vinyl and not Neon glass signs cause those would break. Plexi-glass signs with back lighting might be ok, but with the force of the water from the compressor of your washer, might force water into the sign itself and I would hate to risk mixing the water and the transformers/electricity within the sign. The best advice is to call a couple sign companies out of state, do a little research on the matter first before you start banging on doors. You don't want to be replacing signs, they can get expensive. Also talk to your insurance agent. Regards, Mike Holland Managing Partner Net-Flow Solutions www.net-flowsolutions.com I feel that I need to give you a little advice on the idea of pressure washing signs. Even though I am the Managing Partner for Net-Flow Solutions, an IT Managed Services firm. I have a long history in the sign business. My grandfather started a sign business in 1924, and my father at age 70 still runs it in Ohio.

If you are going to pressure wash signs made out of Vinyl you might want to test it on your own signs first. Typically, the PSI of the washers is to much for the vinyl and will tear/rip it from the backing (wood, metal, etc). I can remember when my dad was the first signman in the area to move from hand painted letters to computerized sign making back in the 1980s… He would always tell customers "now you got to be careful with the lettering if you take your vehicle through a car wash". Also i am assuming your talking about vinyl and not Neon glass signs cause those would break. Plexi-glass signs with back lighting might be ok, but with the force of the water from the compressor of your washer, might force water into the sign itself and I would hate to risk mixing the water and the transformers/electricity within the sign.

The best advice is to call a couple sign companies out of state, do a little research on the matter first before you start banging on doors. You don't want to be replacing signs, they can get expensive. Also talk to your insurance agent.

Regards,
Mike Holland
Managing Partner

Net-Flow Solutions
http://www.net-flowsolutions.com

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