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Roof Cleaning Pro Greensboro NC (336)362 7659 wrote:

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Here's another revision on a monster sign like Dave's.

Is the phrase "What's eating your roof?" patented? Chris said this is AC Lockyer's idea with Mallard Systems.

Kind of like Michael Buffer's "Lets get ready to rumble!"

He can sue anyone who tries to say it or print it for their advertising purposes. LOL!

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No snap, Mike? I couldn't find that in the public SEARCH nor could the paralegal?

I'll have to ask him if he actually filed it..or not.. if so, maybe It'll be me who will have to stop using it? I will gladly honor it if its legally his. We'll see?

By the way, your pics are STRETCHING the forum  again....

Thanks for bringing it up?

 

-- Edited by Roof Cleaning Pro Greensboro NC (336)362 7659 on Saturday 13th of February 2010 06:04:13 PM

Another revision on a giant 3 foot x 5 foot sign. 

Everything looks cool on my computer, I only have a 17" monitor and it's not stretching the forum.

My screen is set at 1024x768 pixels.

The Roof Cleaners of Chester County Pennsylvania 610-842-2104 wrote:

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Roof Cleaning Pro Greensboro NC (336)362 7659 wrote:

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I would leave it on the jobsite after I finished.

I'll have to make sure to pick it up with in two weeks.

Like Chris said they get stolen or throw away by the customer quick, so ask permission to leave it in their yard, and leave it no more than two weeks.

I am thinking of simply staking them into the ground with some 2x4's cut in half length wise, and sharpen one end so it will hammer into the ground.

3 foot x 5 foot is the largest sign I have thought of using.

I wanted to go with vinyl so I can roll it up for easy storage.

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I spent a day putting out signs in high visability locations. I put out about 15 of them. I live withing 10 minutes of Delaware and Maryland so I put them out in 3 states. Not one of those signs lasted longer than 1 week. Most were gone by the end of the next day! My signs were not the only yard signs in those locations, but they were the only roof cleaning ones. My signs were the only signs taken. Gotta love chitty competition!  One guy was even bold enought to replace my sign with his!

I gave up putting my signs out anywhere but at my customer's home. I even had one customer call me to tell me that she caught somebody pulling my sign out of her yard. He claimed he was from the township and that yard signs were against township ordinances, but he wasn't taking the four signs at the next door neighbor's house that is being renovated. She told him she was calling the police and he jumped back into his out of state truck and sped away.

I guess I must have my competition scared or something 

Brian

-- Edited by The Roof Cleaners of Chester County Pennsylvania 610-842-2104 on Saturday 13th of February 2010 11:41:51 AM

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In regards to your problems with having your signs snatched....

specifically by local competitors...

Here's my solution...and you can use it...you have my permission LOL

First, go to a hunting store and ask for their "GAME CAMERAS". Even Wally World has them.

Then if you will be putting it up across the street in a neighbors yard have them sign a release form (both the customers yard and the neighbors acroos the way) so you won't get into trouble for taking these stealth photos.

I put up a a deer /game camera in the BUSH across from a sign that kept getting stolen. It took, and I had to wade thru over 200 pictures but I finally found the culprit.
I love technology. LOL

 

Roof Clean USA Georgia 229-227-0000 wrote:

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The Roof Cleaners of Chester County Pennsylvania 610-842-2104 wrote:

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Roof Cleaning Pro Greensboro NC (336)362 7659 wrote:

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I would leave it on the jobsite after I finished.

I'll have to make sure to pick it up with in two weeks.

Like Chris said they get stolen or throw away by the customer quick, so ask permission to leave it in their yard, and leave it no more than two weeks.

I am thinking of simply staking them into the ground with some 2x4's cut in half length wise, and sharpen one end so it will hammer into the ground.

3 foot x 5 foot is the largest sign I have thought of using.

I wanted to go with vinyl so I can roll it up for easy storage.

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I spent a day putting out signs in high visability locations. I put out about 15 of them. I live withing 10 minutes of Delaware and Maryland so I put them out in 3 states. Not one of those signs lasted longer than 1 week. Most were gone by the end of the next day! My signs were not the only yard signs in those locations, but they were the only roof cleaning ones. My signs were the only signs taken. Gotta love chitty competition!  One guy was even bold enought to replace my sign with his!

I gave up putting my signs out anywhere but at my customer's home. I even had one customer call me to tell me that she caught somebody pulling my sign out of her yard. He claimed he was from the township and that yard signs were against township ordinances, but he wasn't taking the four signs at the next door neighbor's house that is being renovated. She told him she was calling the police and he jumped back into his out of state truck and sped away.

I guess I must have my competition scared or something 

Brian

-- Edited by The Roof Cleaners of Chester County Pennsylvania 610-842-2104 on Saturday 13th of February 2010 11:41:51 AM

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In regards to your problems with having your signs snatched....

specifically by local competitors...

Here's my solution...and you can use it...you have my permission LOL

First, go to a hunting store and ask for their "GAME CAMERAS". Even Wally World has them.

Then if you will be putting it up across the street in a neighbors yard have them sign a release form (both the customers yard and the neighbors acroos the way) so you won't get into trouble for taking these stealth photos.

I put up a a deer /game camera in the BUSH across from a sign that kept getting stolen. It took, and I had to wade thru over 200 pictures but I finally found the culprit.
I love technology. LOL

 

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Great Idea Dave.
I almost don't want to know who is stealing my signs
I scare myself sometimes how mad I get about stuff like that.
Most of the local Tampa Roof Cleaning guys are OK.
Some are even my close friends.
But there is always a few

 

I am getting way too anal with these designs, LOL! Here's another one.





-- Edited by Roof Cleaning Pro Greensboro NC (336)362 7659 on Saturday 13th of February 2010 07:15:56 PM

What do you mean by:

and the degree of road set back of this roof

I can re-take the after pic this spring. The roof still looks clean. Yes, the tree shadows does erk me.

Always very difficult to have perfect circumstances.

I earned a degree in photography back in 1994, and know all about the trials and tribulations of getting that perfect shot. Ansel Adams would go back to the same spots over a hundred times before he got the best possible photograph he wanted.

The roof looks a bit distant, set back.
This may have been to get the whole house in the picture ?
Plus, it is not a steep roof.
I just think that steeper roofs, shot closer up, make a more viisual impact ?
It is a white roof, so that shows contrast.
Just know you like to fiddle, so I thought you might like to fiddle with the silver roof ?
I always wondered what it would look like, on a sign ?

No, that's ok. I should use my own photographs. Aren't yours copyrighted?

Do you like these pics better?






-- Edited by Roof Cleaning Pro Greensboro NC (336)362 7659 on Saturday 13th of February 2010 07:37:21 PM