{"id":171,"date":"2024-05-28T03:20:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T03:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/questions-about-lettering\/will-the-letters-adhere-strongly-why-mist-the-back-with-water\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T03:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:25:00","slug":"will-the-letters-adhere-strongly-why-mist-the-back-with-water","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/questions-about-lettering\/will-the-letters-adhere-strongly-why-mist-the-back-with-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the letters adhere strongly?  Why &#8216;mist&#8217; the back with water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes &#8211; very strongly. Same material used for Semi Truck lettering and graphics. The mist is really to prevent the decals from sticking to quickly to start with. If you use the &#8220;wet method&#8221;, it will take longer for the decals to adhere completely. But, within a day or two (depending on temp) the decals will be adhered to the point, as one customer put it: &#8220;It will take an act of God to get them off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.signspecialist.com\/f_yes.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have another question about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signspecialist.com\/decals\/decals.html\">decals<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signspecialist.com\/signs\/signs.html\">signs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signspecialist.com\/lettering\/lettering.html\">lettering<\/a>,<br \/>\nor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signspecialist.com\/stripes\/fastnfurious\/fastnfurious.htm\">stripes<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vinyl letters adhere extremely strongly once fully cured. Misting the back with a water and soap solution during installation prevents the adhesive from grabbing too quickly, allowing time for proper positioning. While the wet method slightly delays full adhesion, the letters will bond securely within a day or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-171","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions\/1134"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}