Tradie Workwear for Auckland Sites, Yards and Vans

Both, but not the way a shop does. We source blank garments from New Zealand wholesalers as part of an order and decorate them, or we decorate gear you already own. What we do not do is sell plain stock off a shelf, and we do not carry PPE — no hard hats, boots, gloves or harnesses. If you want to buy a rack of gear and walk out with it, a trade workwear retailer is the right call and we will say so rather than waste your time.

We cannot tell you that, and we would rather say so than guess. We are a decorator, not a certifier, and we have not seen a test result either way. What we do is place the logo clear of the retroreflective banding and confirm the position with you before anything is decorated. If certification matters on your site, get it in writing from whoever supplies the garment — before you order, because the answer may decide which garment you buy — and we will work to whatever it says.

Embroidered, for most of it. On drill, canvas, fleece and softshell the stitching is structural and outlasts anything pressed onto the surface, which matters when the garment is being dragged past scaffolding. Print earns its place on lightweight tees, on full-colour artwork that stitching would flatten, and on large back panels. Embroidery is stitched here in Glenfield; transfers are printed by a trusted partner and pressed here on our own heat press. Caps and beanies are embroidery only — pressing headwear needs a cap press and we do not have one yet.

Yes. We press reflective and fluorescent transfer material as well as standard, so a company name across a back panel can catch a headlight the same way the garment banding does. The film comes from the same partner as every transfer we press, and the pressing is done here. Both films carry a minimum run where our standard transfer does not, because our transfer partner runs those films in minimum quantities: ten transfers of each design at each size for reflective, twenty for fluorescent. That is transfers rather than garments — one mark on each shirt means ten or twenty shirts, though a shirt carrying four of the same sleeve band is four transfers, so five shirts reaches twenty, and two of the same band on five shirts reaches ten. A reflective logo is worth it on night work and largely wasted on a day-only crew, so it is worth asking what your crew actually does after dark before paying for it.

Roughly 5 to 21 working days from artwork approval. A straight reorder sits at the fast end — a stitch file we already hold, at the same size, with stock on hand. Artwork we have not stitched at that size before, a garment we have to bring in, or a run across several sizes and styles sits at the slow end. If you have a start date, say so when you ask and we will tell you honestly whether it is achievable rather than agreeing and hoping.

Yes, and plenty of crews do — a jacket somebody likes, or a part-used run of shirts from a previous supplier. Send it in and we will decorate it. The one thing worth knowing is that we cannot replace a customer-supplied garment if something goes wrong on the press or under the needle, so on a garment you cannot get again we will tell you the risk before we start.

No. One shirt is a real order and so is two hundred. Larger runs get better per-unit pricing, because the setup work is the same whether it is one garment or fifty — which is also why a very small order carries a handling charge. It is shown on your quote, so there is nothing to discover later. Speciality film is the one exception to no minimum: reflective and fluorescent logos, and fabrics that need a film made for them, start at ten transfers of each design at each size (twenty for fluorescent), counted in transfers rather than garments. The quote says which your garment needs.

No — there is nowhere to collect from. We work out of a workshop in Glenfield that takes no visitors, so everything goes by courier, including Auckland deliveries. We can send an order straight to a site or a yard rather than to your office if that is easier, and tracking goes out when it ships.