{"id":177,"date":"2024-05-28T03:20:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T03:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/questions-about-lettering\/how-difficult-is-it-to-remove-the-decal\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T03:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:25:04","slug":"how-difficult-is-it-to-remove-the-vinyl-lettering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/questions-about-lettering\/how-difficult-is-it-to-remove-the-vinyl-lettering\/","title":{"rendered":"How difficult is it to remove the vinyl lettering?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lettering will not come off till you want them off. But when you do, they come off easily.<\/p>\n<p>On glass: Very easy. Simply slide a razor blade under the decal. Once removed any glue can be removed with glass cleaner.<\/p>\n<p>On painted surfaces: A little bit more work. Pick and pick and pick with your finger nail. If it is placed in the sun, it comes off better. But it does come off with no damage to the paint. Remove the glue with mineral spirits.<\/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 lettering is designed to remain in place until you choose to remove it, at which point it comes off easily without damaging the paint. On glass, slide a razor blade underneath and clean the residue with glass cleaner. On painted surfaces, pick at the edges with your fingernail, preferably while the surface is warm from the sun, and use mineral spirits to remove any leftover adhesive.<\/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-177","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177","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=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177\/revisions\/1140"}],"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=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}