The Watson Family's
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The Watson Family's
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(214) 339-2227 (817) 861-1234 (972) 239-4448
(800) 333-7137 toll-free
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Permits and Approvals 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.
If your Landlord has
sign criteria, please give us a copy. It will help
us insure that the Landlord 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 InspectionsThe 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. Certified Engineering
Almost all cities require that
Certified Engineering be presented prior to Permit
Approval to prove 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.
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Signs Manufacturing & Maintenance Corp.
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