Wall & Floor Graphics London
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Printed wall murals and anti-slip floor graphics, produced in London and fitted by our installers. Floor work is finished with a textured R10 or R11 anti-slip laminate — the manufacturer’s datasheet travels with the order — and cut with rounded corners so shoes and scrubbers cannot lift an edge. Wall work is chosen against the paint: high-tack film for washable and stain-resistant surfaces, textured film for brick. Made to order against a site survey, with fitting scheduled at the quote. Retail floor and window schemes are fitted after hours — pop-ups in Covent Garden and launch spaces around Shoreditch are the usual runs.
Every job is quoted from the surface and the footfall. Tell us the floor or wall and the traffic and we will come back with a firm figure.
Why wall and floor graphics are a laminate decision first
Printing the image is the easy half. What decides whether a wall or floor graphic is still there in six months is what goes over it and what goes under it — the laminate on the face and the adhesive against the surface. Get those right and a floor graphic survives a supermarket entrance all season; get them wrong and you have a curling edge, a slip risk and an argument about who pays for the reprint.
Floors are the more serious half, because a graphic on a floor is something the public walks on. A bare gloss print on a smooth floor is not a graphic, it is a hazard with a logo on it. Every floor graphic here is finished with a textured anti-slip laminate rated R10 or R11, and that rating comes from the film manufacturer — we hand you their datasheet with the order, because a facilities manager needs a document for the file, not a supplier’s assurance.
Where the work goes: retail — promotional floor decals, aisle direction, feature walls; offices — reception murals, timeline walls, branded meeting rooms and floor wayfinding; exhibitions and events — carpet-safe floor arrows and registration branding at ExCeL, Olympia and the Business Design Centre; and transport, schools and gyms, where queue markers and directional graphics take relentless traffic.
| Surface | Build | Typical life | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smooth indoor floors | Floor vinyl with R10 textured anti-slip laminate | 3–6 months in busy retail | Tile, sealed wood, vinyl and polished concrete; lifts cleanly within its rated life |
| Entrances and wet zones | Heavy-duty film with coarser R11 laminate | 6–12 months | Doorways, food courts, anywhere shoes arrive wet |
| Carpet | Carpet-grip film with light anti-slip face | Event to a few months | Low-pile commercial carpet — exhibition halls, conference suites |
| Painted plasterboard | Wall film, matt, removable adhesive | Years, indoors | Standard offices; washable and stain-resistant paints need high-tack instead |
| Brick, concrete, textured render | Conformable textured wall film, heat-applied | Long-term | Smooth film will not key into the texture — this is a different material, not a thicker one |
Walls: the paint decides, not the film
Wall graphics fail for one reason far more often than any other: the paint would not let go of its own surface. Modern commercial interiors are painted with washable, scrubbable, stain-resistant products whose additives leave a surface ordinary adhesive cannot key into. The graphic looks perfect when the fitter leaves and is lifting at the edges a few days later. For those walls we specify high-tack film, which grips harder by design — and which, being honest, is also harder to remove later.
Fresh paint is the other trap. A newly painted wall keeps releasing solvent for days; cover it too early and that vapour has nowhere to go but under the vinyl, as bubbles. Plan on roughly 14 days of curing before graphics go up. Bare plaster and flaking paint need sealing first — film bonds to whatever is on top, so if the top layer is loose, so is your graphic.
Textured surfaces are a material question, not an effort question. Brick, block and heavy render take a conformable textured film, heat-worked into the surface; a smooth film stretched over the same wall bridges the mortar joints and pulls back off them within weeks. Large murals are split into vertical drops with an overlap and hung in sequence, because gravity is the only reliable alignment tool on a big wall.
Survey, production and fitting
This is made-to-order work and it starts with a site survey: our installers measure the run, identify the floor or wall surface, test paint adhesion where there is any doubt, and confirm access and timing. That half hour decides the film, the adhesive and the laminate — the three choices that determine whether the job lasts. Skipping it is how a mural ends up specified for plasterboard and fitted to washable paint.
Production then runs quickly: printed here, laminated with the specified anti-slip or matt face, and contour cut on the Zünd with rounded corners on anything going on a floor. Panels are labelled in fitting order. Installation is scheduled with the quote — our installers work out of hours or before opening where the space is in use, because a floor graphic needs the floor clean, dry and empty for longer than most businesses can spare mid-trade.
Supply-only is equally available: printed, laminated, cut and labelled for your own fitters. And afterwards, we keep the files — when a seasonal floor set wears out, the reprint is a repeat order rather than a new project.
Artwork specifications
Corners, tiling, safe margins, colour, format
Floor-to-ceiling means metres of print — measure your file’s maximum sharp size first.
| Requirement | What we need | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Corner radius | 10–15 mm on every floor cut path | Square corners are what shoes and scrubbing machines lift. We apply the radius as standard unless you tell us not to. |
| Mural tiling | One continuous file per wall — we split it | Large murals are hung as vertical drops with an overlap; splitting here keeps the seams where they belong. |
| Safe margin | Keep text 20 mm inside the cut on floor graphics | The edge is the part that wears first. Type against the edge is unreadable within weeks. |
| Surface | State the exact floor or wall surface, and the paint if known | Tile, sealed wood, carpet, brick and washable paint each need a different film. This is the single most useful line in your brief. |
| Colour mode | CMYK, Pantone references for brand colours | A wall graphic sits next to painted brand surfaces — a near-miss shows. |
| Resolution at final size | 150 dpi at finished size; more for close-viewed murals | Measured on the wall, not in the file. A reception mural is read from a metre away. |
Before you upload
- Say what the surface is — and the paint type if it is a wall
- Give the traffic level for floors: aisle, entrance, event
- Send murals as one continuous file, not pre-sliced
- Flag freshly painted walls — they need about 14 days
- Ask for the anti-slip datasheet if your safety file needs it
Q&A
Are your floor graphics anti-slip rated?
Yes. Floor graphics are finished with a textured anti-slip laminate carrying an R10 or R11 slip rating, and the classification belongs to the film manufacturer - we pass their datasheet to you with the order so your health and safety file has the document, not just our word. R10 covers normal indoor floors; R11 is the coarser film for entrances, wet zones and anywhere shoes arrive already wet.
Why must floor graphics have rounded corners?
Because a square corner is a handle. Shoe soles, trolley wheels and scrubbing machines catch a 90 degree point and lift it, and once a corner is up the graphic peels and becomes a trip hazard. Every floor cut path gets a 10 to 15 mm radius as standard - it costs nothing and it is the single biggest difference between a graphic that survives and one that curls in a fortnight.
How long do floor graphics last?
In a busy retail aisle, plan on three to six months for a standard laminated graphic and six to twelve for the heavy-duty build. Footfall decides it more than time: a supermarket entrance and a quiet office corridor age the same film at completely different rates. Exhibition and event graphics only need to survive the show, so they are specified differently.
Can graphics go on carpet?
Yes, with the right adhesive. Carpet-grip film is made to key into low-pile commercial carpet - the sort in exhibition halls and hotel conference suites - and to lift off without leaving residue or pulling fibres. Standard floor vinyl simply will not stay down on pile, so tell us the floor surface before we choose the film.
Will wall graphics stick to painted office walls?
Usually, but the paint decides. Modern washable and stain-resistant paints contain additives that standard adhesives cannot key into - a graphic can look perfect on Monday and be peeling by Wednesday. For those walls we use high-tack film. Fresh paint is the other trap: it needs about 14 days to cure, or trapped solvent bubbles under the vinyl.
Will a wall graphic take the paint off when removed?
Removable film on sound, properly cured paint comes away cleanly. Two things change that: high-tack film chosen for a difficult wall grips harder by design, and paint that was already poorly bonded will come off with anything. Say at the quote how long the graphic has to live - a two-year campaign and a permanent feature wall take different adhesives.
Do you survey and install, or supply only?
Both, and for walls and floors we recommend the survey. Our installers check the surface, test paint adhesion where it matters, measure the run and confirm access, and installation is scheduled with the quote - out of hours where the space is in use. Supply-only leaves here printed, laminated, contour cut and labelled for your own fitters.
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Key facts: ordering tonight
- Open 24 hours, 7 days a week, including Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays.
- Print production runs 24/7; the walk-in counter serves the day and evening, and the status bar at the top of the page shows live whether it is open right now.
- Files and payment received by 21:00 → overnight production for delivery before 9am the next morning, subject to that night’s capacity; we confirm at quotation whether the run fits.
- No fixed overnight cap: tell us the quantity and we say at quotation whether it can be done in time.
- Overnight jobs are normally couriered to arrive before your office opens; collection is arranged around your arrival time — call before you set off after 8pm so the job is bagged and waiting at the counter.
- No minimum for walk-in jobs during the day — one copy is a normal job. Out-of-hours collection or delivery carries a £95 minimum plus courier if required.
- Same-day and overnight courier delivery across London, most often EC1–EC4, W1, WC1–WC2, E14 and SW1.
- Exhibition delivery to ExCeL, Olympia, the Business Design Centre and other venues: send us the hall, your stand number, the named person on the stand and their mobile, and the build-day or opening time you need it by; we deliver to the stand.
- Send what you have: we check the artwork before anything goes on press and tell you what to fix; a print-ready PDF (CMYK, 3 mm bleed) is the fastest route.
- Quotes come with a secure payment link — Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal and Klarna; production starts once payment is in.
- Courier delivery within London is usually in the region of £35–45, depending on the postcode and which courier is free; the exact figure is on your quote and is added to the job price.
- A proof is available on request; when we design the artwork you always get a final proof to approve. Print-ready files are printed on site and our operator checks the run against a printed proof sample before it leaves.
- Before we accept an urgent job we look at what could go wrong with the file, the stock and the finishing, and plan so that a reprint would still fit inside your deadline.
- Every order has a dedicated member of staff and an agreed completion deadline; we do not run an e-commerce queue, so the time we give you is for your job.
- Bank transfer is accepted alongside the payment link: tell us when you have sent it — the job goes to production once accounts confirm it has arrived.
- Outside London and towards the M25 courier costs more: we check with the couriers and confirm the price with you before booking.
- The 10–15 mm corner radius is our standard for every floor cut path, rather than a mandatory requirement, and is applied unless you explicitly request otherwise.
Tell us the surface and the traffic
The floor or wall, the paint if you know it, the footfall and the area — that is the whole brief. We arrange the survey, then come back with the right film, a firm price and a fitting date.
Open 24 hours, 7 days a week — the production desk answers at any hour. Collection is arranged around your arrival time — call before you set off after 8pm.
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