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Vinyl materials from Innotech were recently featured on the Professional Idiots YouTube channel, which has over 600K subscribers
UK wide-format print media supplier, Innotech, recently had its materials featured prominently on popular YouTube channel, The Professional Idiots.
The channel, which currently sits at 630K subscribers, is known for its large-scale build projects, including rebuilding their parents’ home and turning an ambulance into a campervan.
The Professional Idiots recently took on the challenge of constructing a mobile ‘tiny home’ on the back of an abandoned tipper truck.
The structural build was a success, but the team felt that the raw aluminium box left a lot to be desired visually. The team had also purchased an abandoned barn in a rural mountain village in Italy and needed the tiny home as a place to stay while they renovated it.
Toby Marshall, presenter for Professional Idiots, says: “The tiny home is our free accommodation, but dropping a giant metal box into a rustic, historic landscape is going to stick out like a sore thumb.
"We wanted our amazing metal home to completely blend in with the beautiful surroundings and buildings of the Italian countryside.”
For a solution, they turned to James Morris of Morris Designs to wrap the entire structure with vinyl materials, effectively transforming the metal box into one large, brick- and tile-textured sticker.
To ensure the wrap could withstand outdoor weather and transportation across large distances, Morris Designs used General Formulations GF830 AutoMark Drift cast vinyl, supplied directly by Innotech.
The installation was not without its challenges – the exterior of the tiny home was built using hundreds of pop rivets and covering them seamlessly required expert installation skills, heat, and specialised rollers.
James Morris, managing director of Morris Designs, explains: "Wrapping an aluminium box covered in hundreds of pop rivets is a nightmare, because every single bump is a potential failure point.
“This is exactly why we specified the General Formulations GF830 AutoMark cast vinyl from Innotech. It has unbelievable stretch and conformability, meaning we could heat it, roll it tight around every single rivet, and trust the adhesion to hold firm. We are confident it has the resilience to cope with being dragged all the way to the Italian mountains."
In the video covering the wrapping process, the YouTubers are impressed with the realism, with presenter Toby Marshall saying: "You can't really see the rivets, like, at all. It just looks like the texture of the brick, making it look just like a rustic Italian-style wall.”
Marshall adds: "We want to send out a massive thank you to Morris Designs for coming down and installing this thing.
“These guys are incredibly skilful and so passionate about what they do. It is also clear they work with the best products and so also big thanks to Innotech for providing the wrap vinyl from General Formulations.”
