Estate agent board

Akilux or Forex: which to choose for a property for sale?

Two materials cover most needs. 3.5 mm Akilux® is the board you put up and take down: it is unaffected by any weather and can be handled with one hand after a viewing, which matters when you are putting up five in a day. 3 mm Forex® aims for the opposite: a perfectly smooth surface that reproduces a property photo and an agency logo like a print, on a gate where the board will stay visible for months. On a windy site or for a large size, step up to 10 mm Akilux or 5 mm Forex.

Portrait or landscape: the format that reads from the road

On a post, a narrow fence or a gate pillar, portrait reads better than landscape: the eye moves downwards, and it is width that is in short supply, rarely height. Among the 76 preset sizes, 30 x 40, 40 x 60 and 45 x 65 cover most installations; if your support dictates its own dimensions, enter your height and width and the board is cut to order, straight cut or contour cut.

Double-sided, eyelets and cable ties: fixed with no drilling

When the property sits on a street corner, double-sided printing saves putting up two boards back to back: the listing reads in both directions of traffic. For fixing, eyelets in each corner are the standard: thread a Serflex cable tie through each one and it is secure, with no drilling, and removed just as fast on completion day. On a large board or a windy spot, eyelets all around the edge spread the load and stop it flapping. A board that spends a season facing south loses its reds first: that is where lamination earns its place, gloss or matt depending on the light.

Preparing your file: the phone number first

A passer-by in a car remembers only one thing, the number: set it very large, bigger than everything else, with strong contrast. The headline, the type of property and the phone number are enough — room details are read in the online listing, not at the wheel. Technically: CMYK, 300 DPI, 2 mm bleed, 4 mm safety margin, and keep text and figures clear of the eyelets, which bite into the corners.

Your FOR SALE boards, printed in the Gers

We print them in Manciet, 100% Made In Occitanie, singly or in batches for a whole area. Give us the date of your first viewing: standard, urgent or express, production is scheduled around it.