Last updated on March 19, 2013
During some routine repairs FJF Door Sales of Clinton Township, MI stuck an advertisement on the inside of my residence; something which I feel to be an inappropriate act.
A month back the garage door opener spring broke, and a quick call to the management company for our condo resulted in FJF Door Sales got it fixed the next morning. All of this was good and I was happy with the promptness and service provided. Since the garage had become the domain of Danielle’s new car I’m rarely in there with the door closed, so it wasn’t until yesterday evening I noticed the advertising decal that had been stuck to the inside of the garage door at eye level.
I find it ridiculous that this company feels that it is okay to stick their advertisement on the inside of one’s house after they have performed a repair.
Living in a condo makes this manner of advertising even more asinine, as garage doors (and other exterior elements) in this complex are handled by the condo association and not individual co-owners. Therefore, advertising directly to a co-owner is pointless.
Removing this advertisement has proven to be rather difficult. FJF chose to use a very cheap type of paper decal which tore when peeled and left behind a good deal of adhesive. This won’t be easy to remove since flat paint tends to absorb whatever has been applied to it and most adhesive removers are oil-based and won’t evaporate completely. The best recommendations I’ve found all involve cleaning the area and then repainting, but this’ll be a fair bit of work and have to wait until spring. All because one company chose to stick their ad to the inside of my house.
Send them an invoice for the cost of repainting.
Phone them and ask why they felt it necessary to do this. Then politely point out the pointlessness of doing it on houses people don’t directly own :-)
With all due respect, Piku – people DO directly own condos. They are buildings that people own. Only the property is common area.
A product called Un-Du will take off that label, with minimum bother – you can buy it at your local Archivers. And it will leave absolutely no residue. So safe, that this product can even be used to remove stickers/labels off of paper!
Sorry that FJF decided to do that – we have used that company for years – recently did our new garage door as well as front door & our old homes doors as well & they have put a label on the doors in any fashion. They are a fine company that does great work – with quality doors and parts. Must be some kind of new mandate that came in some stupid meeting of idea makers for the company. And I agree – that is a stupid decision to use that label.
Oops – to fix a statement > “They have Never put a label on the doors in any fashion.” :)