How To Install Vinyl Lettering On Walls
By UtahMomSix Easy Steps to Install Vinyl Lettering On Walls
Step 1 – Prepare Your Wall
Wash your wall with a mild household cleaner. Rinse and dry the wall completely.
Decide where you want your expression to be placed and lightly pencil small guide-lines on your wall.
Make another small guide-mark indicating where you want the center of your expression.
Step 2 – Prepare Your Decorative Lettering
Unroll your expression. (It may need to lay flat in a warm area until it no longer curls.)
Lay your expression on a table or other smooth surface (so that you can read your expression). Rub over the entire surface of your expression with an applicator (or credit card). This will ensure that the lettering adheres to the transfer tape.
Place a yardstick or other straight edge on your expression and line it up with the bottom of your lettering. (If the font does not have an even baseline, choose a repeating letter and place the yardstick at the bottom edge of these repeating letters.) Using the yardstick as your guide, pencil a line along the bottom of your lettering. This guide-line will match up to the guide-line you have penciled on the wall.
Step 3 – Position and Tape Decorative Lettering
The small arrow indicates the horizontal center of your expression. Line this arrow up with the center guide-mark you placed on the wall earlier.
Match up the guide-line you penciled on your expression with the guide-line you penciled on the wall.
With the expression in the desired position, place small pieces of painter’s tape or masking tape along the top of edge of your expression. These pieces of tape act as “hinges” and should be placed approximately every six inches.
Step 4 – Remove Backing Paper
Flip your expression up and slowly peel the backing paper away from the transfer tape. (The lettering will adhere to the sticky transfer tape. The backing paper will be blank.)
Carefully lay the expression back down into position on the wall and smooth the entire surface.
Step 5 – Burnish Your Expression
Using an applicator or a credit card, firmly rub the entire expression, giving special attention to the edges of each letter.
Step 6 – Remove Transfer Tape
Slowly peel the transfer tape from the wall.
Remove the arrow from the wall and erase your guide-lines.
Visit www.uppercaseliving.com for more details regarding Decorative Lettering.
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Java Signs
People sometime are fearful that they will not be able to properly apply vinyl lettering, but if you follow the above directions, anyone can get professinoal results which look great. JavaSigns.com provides very similar instructions to customers who order custom vinyl lettering and vinyl decals.
Large decals and lettering can be a little trickier than small decals and lettering. JavaSigns.com provides seperate instructions for each. You can see the large decal application instructions here, and the small decal application instructions here.
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Whitler
You would be amazed on how easy it is to install vinyl lettering. Typically we have very little questions with our business when it comes to installation. More often, the questions surround the size of the font, but not so much the installation itself. We have a nice step by step installation procedure if you want to learn more visit http://www.you-said-it.com/menu.php?go=application
I hope this helps!
Thanks,
Mike
UtahMom
Hi MegRockstar --- Sorry you were confused. If this is new to you, I can totally see how it would be confusing. I think if you go to the following link on the Uppercase Living website it may help to explain it better with pictures: http://www.uppercaseliving.com/OurProducts/InstallationTips/
It's actually VERY simple to apply the lettering to your walls (or any other smooth surface). The lettering is made of very thin pieces of vinyl that adhere to your walls and even take on the texture so it appears painted on. At Uppercase Living you can actually create any saying you want and put a favorite quote or saying on your wall. They also have a TON of great graphics and embellishments to choose from.
The vinyl lettering is removable (but not reusable). To apply it, you simply rub over the vinyl with a burnisher or other flat edge (this is where you can use a stiff piece of plastic like a credit card). This helps the vinyl material adhere to the transfer tape. You can then remove the backing so the vinyl is stuck to the transfer tape.
From there you simply put the lettering where you want it on the wall and peel off the transfer tape. Presto! It's like magic.
I hope this helps!
UM
megrockstar
"Lay your expression on a table or other smooth surface (so that you can read your expression). Rub over the entire surface of your expression with an applicator (or credit card). This will ensure that the lettering adheres to the transfer tape."
run over the letters with a credit card? im lost. Im prob a pinhead but i do like this idea
denisemichelle
Bruno-
They are removable (but not reusable). Perfect for renters (like me!), dorm rooms, just for the holidays, etc. I just got custom ones for above my kitchen cabinets, the font I chose looks like someone with better handwriting than I painted them on.
bruno
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