On the detail pages that follow (¬tabs
to left)
discover
how we manufacture each free-standing Monument (ground) sign to last;
including the use of CNC manufacturing,
structural-steel frames, rust-proof metal, high-end
automotive paint, high-impact plastics or strong
flexible-face materials, and most importantly,
sophisticated
protective coatings.
All our signs include these many hidden features, critically important to you but often ignored by competitors so they can make more money. We even add self-cleaning properties.
We commonly build Monument signs with brick, stone,
and stucco exterior finishes.
Monument sign LED first-surface lighting is a hands-down
winner. Signs Manufacturing incorporates a patent pending design
into our unique new-look concept.
Visit our "Lighting
Choices" tab with its own "LED" tab.
Photos of many varied sign
designs are interspersed on the detail pages tabbed
on the left.
Guaranteed Highest
Quality...
Guaranteed Lowest
Price™
As
detailed below, and on the pages that follow, everything
will be done to make your sign look better, and last
longer...Guaranteed.
Signs
Manufacturing Corporation also guarantees that our price
will be the lowest price you can obtain on the products
described in this website; now or anytime during the next
90 days.
If you are
offered a lower price by someone else we will match that
lower price PLUS give you 10% of the difference.
You May Qualify for a "BETTER THAN FREE™" Sign
Dependent on your location, Signs Manufacturing may be able to offer you INCOME from a FREE pole, pylon, monument sign, or electronic message center.
Contact us for exciting details!
Sign Cost Information
We
sell our signs FACTORY-DIRECT, WHOLESALE to the public.
There is a "Cost" tab to the left that lists general budget pricing for pylon signs and explains our 5 different ways of paying for them.
When you do so notice how dealing directly with the manufacturer can potentially save you additional dollars in Texas sales/use taxes!
However, you can purchase right now and save if you know precisely what you want.
Signs Marketplace™
$91.80 per square foot. (Based on 32 square foot double-faced internally lighted Monument sign cabinet.
Ready to mount on a pole. Coated structural steel frame. Aluminum skins
primed and painted with acrylic urethane paint. Coated acrylic faces with
vinyl graphics. Center support in cabinet. Shipping or installation
costs are additional.
We will contact you for construction and
shipping/installation particulars.)
The detailed construction and installation information below and to the left, is very
important in developing a sign that will accomplish
your goals.
If you do not know precisely what you want, please contact us to develop an exact plan to meet
your particular needs - for free (see our "Design
& Marketing" page!)
Our professional staff will usually have exact quotations, and exact scale
drawings of your signs installed on your building or property ready for you
the same day we meet with you. (Much faster than the 2 1/2 week average in
our industry.)
If you are planning for the future, please bookmark our
website as a "Favorite" so you can find us when you are
ready.
The detailed construction and installation information below, and to the left, is very
important in developing a sign that will accomplish
your goals.
Equipment and machinery purchased in 2012 will be 50% deductible during 2012, the balance depreciated.
An initial amount of $125,000 in purchases is fully deductible.
Signs are business equipment.
Fraud Protection
"After being ripped-off by one
sign company, who took my several-thousand-dollar deposit
but never delivered my sign, I was nervous. I'm sure
glad I met you guys!"
Paul Lewis, Jubilee
Mortgage
Signs Manufacturing is insured,
registered, licensed and bonded per all City and State
regulations, and even carries product liability insurance to protect our customers, and their customers, which is very rare among sign companies.
We even offer our customers free coverage on a $2,000,000 insurance policy providing Deposit Insurance if we were to default.
Visit our "Cost" tab on the "Sign Types" page for details on all of the above.
We've got you covered!
"...I had to hound Vital ***** (a sign broker) for weeks and weeks, then I had to call ******** (the manufacturer) to finally get a hold of Vital *****. I thought Vital ***** was taking my deposit money and running. When he asked for the second deposit I was kind of hesitant based on my experience with him. I did some research on Vital ***** and there were judgments in Dallas County, civil judgments for Vital ***** taking money and not putting up a sign! But the manufacturer said I had to deal with him, and he already had a great deal of my money.
The installation company he subcontracted with, City *****, finally did show up and after giving them another $30,000 the sign was installed but City ***** didn't pay Vital *****, I guess, his "fair cut" of it.
Vital ***** was initially mad at City ***** and then he was mad at me, so he came and took the controller out of the sign so now it doesn't even work! I tried to go back to ******** (the manufacturer), and gave them all of the documentation and they said it's between me and Vital *****, they won't do anything about it. I'm never dealing any way but directly with a manufacturer again!"
Mr. Sinkler, Freedom Wash
Why Buy Factory-Direct, from a State-Licensed Company?
TURN-KEY Design, Manufacturing, Installation, and Service
Why not buy from a Sign Dealer (also called a Sign Broker or a Sign Store?)
Would you give a car dealer $10,000 and tell him to buy you the best car
he can for the money, sight unseen (or from a drawing?) Don't you think you would get the car that made him
the most?
Do you think you
could meet your needs asking for the cheapest car he can buy?
Why would a sign dealer (sign broker or sign store) be any different? Remember, they are
merely buying a sign from a manufacturer to resell to you, usually to resemble a
drawing, making the most money they can.
You need to know ALL of the details on how your sign will be manufactured, and how it will be installed. It needs to meet YOUR needs, not the seller's profit goals. What is he telling the manufacturer you don't need?
Believing "...a sign is a sign" gets you a Yugo instead of a Cadillac.
Remember the Yugo? They didn't last very long, either.
Also, most sign dealers, sign brokers and sign stores cannot legally install
or service an electric sign. Ask to see their license.
Ask to see a manufacturer's license also. A few are not licensed to do electrical work, either, they also have to hire other companies to install the signs they make.
Now, who provides the warranty? The manufacturer, the installer, the
salesman, anyone? If the sign was installed illegally
do you think they'll honor their warranty? Did they REALLY obtain your
City sign permit? Is the sign even safe?
As a large, UL listed manufacturer, our name is on all our signs. Just like you,
we can't afford to have a bad sign destroy our business. We have to care,
particularly with our LIFETIME warranty.
If you wonder if a sign-seller can legally install and
service electrical signs through-out Texas go to
http://www.license.state.tx.us/LicenseSearch/,
enter "Electricians" in the "Inquire by License Type" box and the name of the
sign business or person in the "Inquire by Name" box. If they
are not licensed they can not.
So someone can sell you signs and not be licensed to install or service them. You may have to have this done. But unless the electrical signs
you buy are "listed" (U.L. usually) they won't
be allowed to be installed in Texas, a State of Texas Consumer Protection Safety Law designed to insure that signs are safe to use, with a few local city
ordinance exceptions. It is not illegal to sell them to you, however. Buy carefully.
"I had a ****-a-**** (sign company) right across the street … that store's out of business now … I found out they hired some other company to build and install our sign and they did a really #@%&&$ job, the thing has never lit right. ****-a-**** Corporate won't do anything, they say the closed store was an independent franchise, and the sign builder/installer won't fix it, they say we weren't their customer. I need you to come out, tell me what it will cost to get the thing working properly and get it fixed."
Chris Jennings, Jimmy Johns
Summary - Monument Signs in a Nutshell
The Special Features and Benefits of Signs Manufacturing's Monument Signs
Lasting Quality - Your Sign will ALWAYS look good to potential customers
Structural steel frames with aluminum exterior skins - no rust and the sign will last forever. Virtually Hail-proof.
Computer-generated graphics - Perfect look, not handmade, much more impressive.
For
strength, durability, and appearance your
illuminated signs will be constructed of aluminum
(#3003, H14 - not the "soft" aluminum used by some)
covering a welded structural-steel inner frame.
Large metal
areas will be reinforced to prevent "oil-canning".
The
structural-steel frame inside the sign is separately
painted before the skins are installed; important to
prevent rust stains later.
We commonly build Monument signs with brick, stone,
and stucco exterior finishes.
Our signs are
properly engineered to withstand the winds of North
Texas (100 m.p.h.); signs attached to poles are
welded, not bolted, in place.
Certified
Welding
We employ
Certified Welders. Horizontal, vertical, and
overhead.
We are
virtually the only sign company in the Dallas/Fort
Worth Metroplex employing certified welders.
The
Importance of Sign Thickness
The
thickness of a sign does more than impart a more
prominent importance to a sign, it affects the
graphics.
The minimum allowable thickness
of a sign depends on the type of internal lighting
and the type and size of the sign face.
Lighting and sign face types
will be discussed later.
The larger the sign face the
thicker a properly made sign cabinet must be.
It is very important that the
sign be thick enough that the lighting in the sign
does not show as "hot spots" or "zebra striping" on
the face of your sign. Either of these makes
your sign look "cheap" no matter what its cost.
In some instances these can be so bad that a sign is
not readable at night. You've seen them.
All
of this makes the use of extruded aluminum sign
frames problematic in building a quality sign, to
say nothing about a strong sign (no structural steel
inner frame) since extrusions are only available for
limited cabinet depths; however some sign companies
continue to attempt to do so. Signs
Manufacturing does not use extruded cabinets
precisely for these reasons.
We calculate what is required
to make a proper and impressive sign for you, and
then we build it.
It is more expensive to do the
job right, but what is the value of a "cheap" sign
that gives potential customers a negative impression
of your business?
The
Importance of Retainer Width
Equally important to the
appearance of the sign is the width of the retainer
(the ring of metal around the sign face that covers
the mechanism that holds the
sign face in
the cabinet.)
This border
plays a very important role in the apparent quality
of your sign, and both size and color must be
considered in the overall design.
This
makes the use of pre-made extruded aluminum sign
frames undesirable.
Tabs to other components of
a Monument sign are listed down the left side of
this page.
Be sure to
select the tab "Sign
Buyer's Check List" to the left.
This is a tool for your use to insure that
quotations you receive are for the same sign!
Insist that your bidders check-mark each line, then
sign the document when they give you their quote.
Free Factory Tour
Come and see the array of equipment
and tools, and the facility dedicated to making good
signs.
Contact a sales consultant to arrange a
plant tour, or just stop by. Click our "Contact
Us" tab for location and contact
details.
Using Our Website to Learn About Signs and Create a Successful Image.
Your
sign forms that very important "first impression" your
potential customer has of your business. Your
sign must always look nearly as good as it looked the
day it was installed so that you don't give potential
customers a worsening impression of your business as
your sign ages.
Click our "Sign Types" tab to the left, then pick any of our products and
discover how we make each sign to last; including the
use of CNC manufacturing, rust-proof metal,
structural-steel frames, high-end automotive paint,
high-impact plastics, and most importantly,
sophisticated
protective coatings.
All our signs include these many hidden features, critically important to you but often ignored by competitors so they can make more money. We even add self-cleaning properties.
We champion
brighter, energy-saving
EnergyStar Signs™ solutions that save our
customers money while
protecting our environment.
No matter what type of signs you are considering, please
explore our "Lighting Choices" tab for that product, with
its own "Energy Savings" tabs. In fact many of our unique sign designs can even be Solar Powered!
We
have lots of experience. Click our "Design
& Marketing" tab to the left to learn how
we can help you - for free. We even furnish a "Grand
Opening Package" featuring a free parking
lot "Coming Soon" free-standing portable sign to
attract attention while your sign is being
constructed.
We
will give your company an edge and help make you
money.
We are the
"greenest" sign company in Texas. Click the "Our
Environment" tab on our "About
Us" page to learn about our environmental
efforts.
Please use and enjoy this 387 page website with over 2000 images, the largest information resource about signs on the internet, created so you can learn about all types of signs and how you can control their affect on your image.
We believe that if you're a knowledgeable purchaser there's a real good chance you'll become our customer.
State Licensed Sign Installation and Sign Service
We are a full-service sign company.
We
provide
sign site surveys,
sign permits,
sign installation
and
sign maintenance
services for electrical and non-electrical signs for our customers as well as other sign
companies. We
provide this work in Dallas, Fort Worth (DFW), and ALL of
North Texas and Northeast Texas.
State Sign and Electrical License Numbers: TECL17503, TSCL18015, TSCL18016.
Our technicians are also
Quality Certified Signs™ certified. (Click the "Installation
& Service" tab for details.)
Also go to
our "SpectraLites™
& LED" page under Channel Letter Lighting Choices to learn
about back-lighted Channel Letter faces that automatically change colors.
There is a video so you can see them in action.
Patents
Pending.
BIG Business Booster
There
is no question that LED electronic message centers are the business signage
communication wave of the future. Local advertising has never been
cheaper because of them.
Every business has a need to promote
special events, sales, sponsorships, etc.; either at their business location
and/or at local sports events, parades, church and school events.
If
your business is not located where you can have a permanent messaging sign,
or you need to advertise at multiple locations (like the kid's soccer game),
the question is, HOW?
This question has been answered with “The
LED Sled™” pictured here, Signs Manufacturing’s new portable self-powered
LED electronic message center and video display.
Local businesses have never
before been able to be so creative, to think so far outside the box to gain
a competitive advertising advantage.
“To rent, or to own, THAT is the
question.” (sorry Shakespeare.) How often do you need to promote your
business?
If you are a multi-location business you
need to own one of these! Some location ALWAYS has special needs or
opportunities. Or a new store under construction.
If you’re not in the Dallas/Fort Worth
Metroplex you absolutely need to own one because you are too far away for us
to rent you one!
Here are a few projects that we have JUST completed:
E-Mail Specials & Newsletter Blog
Occasionally Signs Manufacturing will have
excess production on certain sign types, or discounts on installation or
service exceeding our standard LIFETIME WARRANTY 20% discount.
Or, we have information about Signs
Manufacturing Corporation, or the sign industry, we would like to share.
If you would like to be informed of these
specials by email, click on the "Newsletter
& Blog " tab to the left, and send us your contact information or
subscribe to our RSS feed.
If you are not old enough to have piloted a
business during the late 1970's, and depending on what our future brings,
you might appreciate our Blog about inflation. It is written from the
knowledge-base of our senior Watson, who did, and another of the family
members, who has a SMU degree in finance.
Just for Fun
Go to our "Not-so-Good
Signs" tab on our "Design
& Marketing" page to witness Signs Manufacturing's "The Not-so-Good
Signs, the Bad, Ugly, Stupid & Dumb Signs" Awards Contest! You can
also view the world's most expensive (to purchase and to feed) animated
message center.
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is no question that LED electronic message centers are the business signage
communication wave of the future. Local advertising has never been
cheaper because of them.
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your business is not located where you can have a permanent messaging sign,
or you need to advertise at multiple locations (like the kid's soccer game),
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