Our installation
quotations include preparing drawings of your new signage
for your Landlord, if required, and also for your City
Sign Permit Application.
This means we will either send our people to
measure your property or have a subcontractor do the
measurements. We will then produce detailed drawings
of the sign, how it is built, and the property where it
will be installed.
We deal with the
City so that you do not have to! We also help you
provide the necessary materials to get approval from
your Landlord.
We
will send our drawings to your Landlord, and deliver them
to your City with a Sign Permit Application.
If your Landlord has
sign criteria, please give us a copy. It will help
us insure that the Landlord
quickly approves the layout for your new sign.
When your City
approves your permit they will usually require the sign
company to return to City Hall to pick up the permit in
person. This
is also included in our quotation.
If the City
doesn't approve your permit, and you want to appeal their
decision, we are very skilled at obtaining a "Variance."
Our record is nearly perfect.
If your City requires
a pre-installation sign inspection we will comply.
After the sign is
installed, the City will inspect the sign, and your
electrical connection to the sign.*
*NOTE:
Most cities, and the National Electrical Code,
require that a sign have a disconnect (switch). If your channel letter sign is being
installed on a raceway, our price includes installing a
switch on the raceway. If not, and if your electrical service
to the sign does not have a LOCKABLE disconnect, we have a
solution!
If your sign is being
installed by us, locally, and you are present at the sign
installation, we will tell you if your existing electrical
does not have a lockable disconnect. We can install one for you at the time
of sign installation for $79.95 plus tax.
If we are shipping the
sign to your location and you know that your electrical
will not pass inspection because it does not have a
LOCKABLE disconnect, for the same price we can include a
switch when the sign is shipped.
The lockable switch
price includes a label, installed by your electrical
service panel, noting that your lockable disconnect is
installed on a transformer box.
You will need to have
a ladder available, or keep the transformer box visible,
until the City Inspector has inspected your sign.
Some cities require
that you have permit copies on-site before they will
inspect, some do not.
We will give you copies of what is required to be
posted.
Hole-drilling Inspections
The State of Texas requires that we
mark the location where a hole is to be drilled and notify
the State of our intentions.
The State notifies all regulated
utilities (electric, gas, telephone, cable, and pipeline
companies, etc.) of our intentions, and we must give them
three work days to verify that we will not hit any of
their underground components. If there is a
potential conflict they must visit the site and mark the
location of their components.
Although not required by law, we also
notify water, sewer, and private communications entities
(school districts, fire, police, city, etc.) before
drilling. We have developed proprietary contact
lists for use in every city in the metroplex over the
years.
The City itself usually inspects
detached sign locations to insure that they comply with
the permit location before drilling.
After a hole is drilled, the City
usually inspects the hole prior to it's being filled with
concrete.
Almost all cities require that
Certified Engineering be presented prior to Permit
Approval to prove
that the design of a pylon sign will withstand a 100
m.p.h. wind (140 m.p.h. in Florida.)
No one wants to hurt someone
We prepare certified engineering on
all our free-standing signs.
When hurricane Ivan hit the
Florida panhandle in 2004 with 140 m.p.h. winds no cabinet
sign we manufactured was damaged, except by flying
objects; no free-standing pylon sign even lost a sign face
(2 small changeable-letter readerboards with plastic faces
lost their faces.) One of our customers had 2
previous sign suppliers; none of their signs survived.