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.
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™ 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.
The Signs Manufacturing On-Location Sales Team's Personalized Service
No matter what types of signs you are interested in, our sales team, consisting of 11 highly-trained individuals, is at your beck and call.
Let us meet with you in your office, or at your new signs location, or home, or anywhere.
You will probably have a firm quotation for what you want during our meeting; certainly no more than a day later.
There are 19 questions you must have answers to before investing in signs. Questions not about the signs themselves, but about how the signs will be perceived, and how long they will take to pay for themselves. Our sales team will bring you a COMPLIMENTARY PROFESSIONAL MARKET SURVEY of your new signage locations. Click on the "Sign Market Research" tab to the left for details.
Visit Our Unique Sign Lighting Laboratory and Demonstration Showroom with LED Video Displays
Unique in the entire sign industry, Signs Manufacturing™ built an 85’ by 50’ (over 4,000 sq ft) indoor sign lighting laboratory for testing the longevity, visibility, and effectiveness of all the lighted signs we manufacture.
The Laboratory is open to the public, for FREE, adding an LED Video Display Showroom because we realized how important one would be to consumers.
If you are considering purchasing an LED Video Display or Digital LED Message Center sign this exclusive opportunity will be particularly important. You must determine what type of sign, and which LED spacing is best, so that your sign will be successful, considering how you will use it.
a 4-thousand-shade single-color LED Message Center sign
are always available for you to compare.
We
invite you to also observe all other types of signage, viewing them up close as well as from a distance, under varying light conditions (and stay out of the weather while doing so!)
Channel letter signs, both neon and LED lighted.
Letterlites™ channel letter signs.
Twinkling Letterlites™ channel letter signs.
SpectraLites™ Color-changing channel letter signs.
Reverse channel letter signs.
Cloud signs.
Channel letter signs with backplates.
Raceways and wireways.
Cabinet signs, fluorescent, HID, or LED lighted.
Neon and LED building accent lighting.
Computer-controlled full-color, programmable, building lighting.
Storefront Lighting.
Facade Lighting.
Neon color selection.
Brighter Signs™ neon.
Solarbrite™ LED lighting.
LED color selection.
Pinlights™ signs.
Pylon signs.
Pole signs.
Masonry Monument signs.
Wall-wash back-lighting for all types of signs.
Routed sign faces for all types of signs.
Digitally printed and cut vinyl decorated sign faces for all types of signs.
How will shadows affect my sign's readability during the day? Should the wall behind my sign be light or dark colored? Would a different type of sign look better on my brick wall? Should I consider a routed sign face with push-through letters?
Visit Texas' Largest Signs Showrooms
-
Don't buy your sign from a drawing, a slick website, or photo-shopped
pictures, when you can actually see and
side-by-side
compare Real signs, and designs.
Live Demonstrations of Signage Features
Sunsational™ Engineering
NASA's Ceramic Vacuum Microsphere Coating
Solarguard™ Protective Coatings
Signlux™ Paint Systems
Solar Finishes™ Bright Reflective White
Lumabrite™
Vandal-Resistant Coatings
Flexible Sign Face Installation Methods
No one else can offer you this unique opportunity. Be sure to take advantage.
Your business will be better because you do.
If you don't visit it could cost you thousands in sales every year.
Your business will be better because you do. Can you afford not to?
"I almost made a huge mistake by not listening to you and visiting your showroom prior to buying my sign. I thought I knew what I wanted, after listening to so many salespeople...boy, was I wrong. My vision of the sign did not jibe with what it would really turn out to be, even after viewing so many drawings. It was obvious the moment I entered the showroom. If I had stuck to my guns my sign would have been a disaster. I would have wasted a lot of money."
Cecil Drake, Drake Communications
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.) Installation available.
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 Center" 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.
"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, both UL and ETL 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.tdlr.texas.gov/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 Corporation'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.
Signlux Paint Systems™ Automotive+ paints and 2 part primer system- The same exterior paint type they paint a Ferrari with. It looks new virtually forever, helping your business.
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 link "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.
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.
An example of our dedication to helping our customers succeed is this website. It IS the definitive source on signage information, ranked by Alexa® in the top 0.05% of ALL websites in the world, the top 0.01% in the USA! Not bad for a sign company serving North Texas. (We placed the website online in 1999, and have been improving it ever since.)
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
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 Center" 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 400+ page, always growing, 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.
Signs Manufacturing Corporation's Four-building Manufacturing Campus prior to our 7,500 sq. ft. expansion in 2004 (Photo courtesy of Bing.)
Weekend photo showing Signs Manufacturing Corporation's 2004 Building Expansion, taken during our 2009 re-roofing project (Courtesy of Google Earth.)
Texas' Success Story
The Dallas/Fort Worth "Metroplex" continues as the
fastest growing large city area in the United States, year-after-year. It is the fourth
fastest growing such area in the world. As fast as in China or India!
North Texas is expected to
gain over 4,000,000 new residents in just the next 4 years!
The business economy HERE remains healthy! Well over
100 new businesses are started in just the D/FW Metroplex every week.
Don't let the "doom-n-gloomers"
talk you out of being successful. This is the best time ever to
start a new business in North Texas and Northeast Texas.
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.)
Area Codes 214, 254, 430, 469, 682, 817, 903, 940, and
972.
Serving Collin, Cook,
Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson,
Henderson, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman,
Lamar, Navarro, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant,
Titus, Van Zandt, Wood, and Wise Counties in Texas.
We also have signs in 43 different
states, and 6 other nations.
WHOLESALE TO THE
PUBLIC!
The Signs Manufacturing™ Commitment to Quality
Established 1979
- One of the
oldest sign companies in Dallas / Ft Worth area.
The Largest
Custom Sign Company in the D/FW Metroplex
- We can handle your needs. With about 200 custom signs
in construction all the time we have the facilities and people to
solve problems and get the job done; creatively. No one else
comes close - no matter what they say!
Manufacturing
Specialists - We specialize in manufacturing identity signage, and selling
our creations wholesale, factory-direct, installed. This is what we do.
We aren't a car wrap, or a poster, or printing, or banner, or coffee cup "sign
company" that sells major identity signage on the side. We concentrate on
doing one thing very well.
Branding Signage
Specialists - Your major identity signage, your storefront sign in most cases,
if done properly, creates your opportunity to be successful.
Once it
does so it must maintain that image for years and years so you remain
successful. Your sign must provide you with enough of the right customers
so you reach your break-even point when you sell them once they enter your
establishment.
ImageKrafters™
Design Team and The Design Tank™
Digital Design Studio -
Hundreds of years combined experience. Creative sign designs that
make our customers more successful.
Professional Market Research Staff
-
Helping insure that your signage meets your needs.
Visit Texas' Largest Signs Showrooms
-
Don't buy your sign from a drawing, a slick website, or photo-shopped pictures,
when you can actually see and side-by-side
compare REAL signs and designs.
Same-Day Price Quotations -
Put us to the test!
Fast and Responsive - When you call a real person will answer the phone every time
during regular business hours.
Guaranteed Highest Quality...Guaranteed
Lowest Price™- We manufacture the best signs, for the
lowest price. WHOLESALE TO THE PUBLIC!
1-Year Warranty (5 Years for LED message signs) plus Lifetime Labor
and Replacement Parts Guarantees* - The strongest guarantees and warranties in the sign industry.
Upgradeable for even more protection!
Local, In-House Sign Manufacturing
-
Single-source local responsibility, without middlemen.
UL®
plus ETL®Approved Manufacturing -
The ONLY manufacturer in the Metroplex regularly inspected by both
OSHA-approved Listing agencies. Our signs are approved for installation
anywhere, worldwide.
Turn-Key™
Full-Service Sign Company - We manufacture, install, and
service all signs; ours and others. Seven cranes/bucket
trucks to 80' reach. Seven installation/service crews.
We Are Also Electronic LED Sign Experts
-
We build, install and service our own programmable LED signs,
Sunburst LED Signs™.We have the knowledge
and ability to install and repair our competitor's signs too.
Unique Quality Signage Products
-
We offer products you won't find anywhere else. Ask your Sign
Consultant for details.
Eleven Person Sales Team - We'll
come to you.
Exclusive Automatic Updates System
- Keeps our customers informed every step of the permitting,
fabrication and installation cycle.
Trained QualityCertifiedSigns™
Technicians - We have a heavy focus on quality fabrication
and installation.
Product Liability Insurance
-
Protects you and your customers forever.
Deposit Insurance
- Your deposit
is safe.
State Licensed Electrical Sign Contractor
- Licensed for electrical sign installs anywhere in Texas.
State Licensed Electrical Contractor
- Not just signs, we know electricity.
Many Different Payment Options -
Cash,
Credit Card, Conserve Your Nest Egg™, Signs on Time™ Lease (with Zero
Down option) and Pay as You Grow Lease/Purchase™
Delayed-Deposit Billing™ -
Significantly
reduced initial billing to help you control your cash-flow.
Grand Opening Package* -
We
want you to be successful; here's another way we're helping. A free
"Coming Soon" and "Grand Opening" banner with your name on it, and free
"store" hours lettered on your door. *Minimum order required.
The Knowledge Tree™
- The world's largest and most complete information source on signage.
(See below.)
"Sign
Buyer's Guide" Brochures - How signs should be built, and why.
Sign-type-specific printed information to help you purchase adequate
signage. (See below.)
SignDawgsTV™
-Free Advertising every time your signs are featured
in episodes!
Why use Signs Manufacturing?
Do
you want someone to just make your sign cheaply, or would you prefer to have
someone make sure it will help you be successful now, and be built to help you
remain successful in the future?
We’re
not just a sign company, we’re unique. And apparently our customers appreciate
our help because we’re the largest sign company in the DFW Metroplex.
Many,
many details follow on how we intend to help you be a success.
WHOLESALE TO THE PUBLIC! Signs Manufacturing™ guarantees that our price will be the lowest price
you can obtain on the product(s) described in this brochure; 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.
What does anyone say who can’t compete in quality, timeliness,
professionalism, etc.? “I can save you money!” But with Signs
Manufacturing’s “Guaranteed Lowest Price” that’s just not true. You CAN
have it all!
This is another reason we’re the largest.
Large, or Small, We Make (and service) them All
Whether it's the
largest sign in Texas, above to the left, One of our Sunburst LED
Signs™,
or one of our smaller ones, Signs Manufacturing manufactures, installs,
and services them all.
The Miller sign is
over 35 feet tall and over 45 feet wide. Notice our Quality
Certified Signs™
Technicians to the left and right of the sign on the ground, and under
the sign as it is being installed on it's 150 foot tall pole.
We are the
ONLY manufacturer of Digital LED Signs in Texas, and provide
factory-direct sales and service.
The Signs Manufacturing
Your-Location Sales Team's Personalized Service
No matter what types of signs you are interested in, our sales team, consisting of 11 highly-trained individuals, is at your beck and call.
Let us meet with you in your office, or at your new signs location, or home, or anywhere.
You will probably have a firm quotation for what you want during our meeting; certainly no more than a day later.
There are 19 questions you must have answers to before investing in signs. Questions not about the signs themselves, but about how the signs will be perceived, and how long they will take to pay for themselves. Our sales team will bring you a COMPLIMENTARY PROFESSIONAL MARKET SURVEY of your new signage locations. Click on the "Sign Market Research" tab to the left for details.
We can design and build your next sign while maintaining
social distancing
Our showroom is open and sanitized so you can safely review the different options available for your new signage.
Also, we have many options to help design your new look, from collaborating remotely (from your own home
bridged to our design team) to designing with you in our Projection Room,
which is large enough to maintain Social Distancing.
Are You a "Visual" Person?
It is difficult to picture what a sign is going to look like. What do you picture when we say "triple-layer multi-colored lighting with a textured backplate?"
Our showroom is designed to solve that problem. Most people are visual ... they need to see
something firsthand to understand what it is and whether it has value to them. Seeing is believing!
Don't buy your sign from a drawing, a slick website, or photo-shopped pictures, when you can actually see and
side-by-side compare REAL signs and designs.
Visit Our Unique
Signs Showrooms
(including our LED
Electronic
Signs, our Sign Lighting Laboratory, and the Modern-Sign Museum™)
Now with
LiveShowroom
Demonstrations of Products that
Improve Your Signs
We are constantly
innovating with newer, better, more dazzling ways for you to establish
your business in the eyes of your customers.
Unique in the entire
sign industry, Signs Manufacturing™ built an 85’ by 50’ (over 4,000 sq
ft) indoor sign lighting laboratory and showrooms to help its customers
decide which sign innovation is the right one for their business as
well as to test the longevity, visibility, and effectiveness of all the
lighted signs we manufacture.
Seeing is believing!
Don't
buy a sign from a drawing, a slick website, or photo-shopped pictures,
when you can actually see and compare real signs.
Our Showrooms now contain
over $750,000 in business sign ideas alone, not to mention
signs for churches and schools! We also have an interactive
storefront that will allow you to see what effect multiple sign ideas
have on your street presence.
"I almost made a huge mistake by not listening to you and visiting your showroom prior to buying my sign. I thought I knew what I wanted, after listening to so many salespeople...boy, was I wrong. My vision of the sign did not jibe with what it would really turn out to be, even after viewing so many drawings. It was obvious the moment I entered the showroom. If I had stuck to my guns my sign would have been a disaster. I would have wasted a lot of money."
-
Cecil Drake, Drake Communications
As detailed on the pages that follow, everything will be done to make your sign look better, and last longer...Guaranteed.
Signs Manufacturing™ 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.
Sign Cost Information
We sell our signs FACTORY-DIRECT, WHOLESALE to the public,
INSTALLED.
Each Sign Type, above and on the "Sign Types" page, has a "Cost" tab under its "Pricing" tab that lists general budget pricing for that type of sign and explains our 5 different payment options.
But, please, contact us to develop an exact plan to meet your particular needs - for free (see our "Design Center" 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.) Contact us NOW...Please!
If you are planning for the future, please bookmark our website as a "Favorite" so you can find us when you are ready.
Cash, Credit Cards, Conserve You Nest Egg™ 0% 15-month financing, Signs on Time™ Conventional Lease/Purchasing or our Pay as You Grow™ Accelerated Lease/Purchasing.
Click on the "Cost"
tab on the "Sign
Types" page for details.
Zero Down
To help you open your business we have worked with one of our lenders to create an exclusive NO DOWN PAYMENT lease.
Now you can pay for your sign totally out of your businesses’ future cash flow.
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 Car Wrap company) 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!"
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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, Car Wrap company 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 (Car Wrap company 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, Car Wrap companies 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, both UL and ETL 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.tdlr.texas.gov/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
"I Want a Sign Company Near Me"
Even
if you are looking for outdoor signs our Sales and
Design Teams, consisting of 13 highly-trained
individuals, are at your beck and call.
Let us meet with you in your
office, or at your new sign location, or home, or anywhere.
You will probably have a
firm quotation for what you want during our meeting; certainly no more
than a day later.
We are not just a
sign company. Our suppliers say that we are the largest sign
company in the DFW Metroplex. We can meet any demand, any
schedule, anytime!
In addition to your personal
sign consultant, your signage project will be managed by:
A
Signage
Project Manager assigned to shepherd your sign thru
production and installation. In addition to your salesperson,
your Project Manager will also interface with you to keep you informed,
and obtain additional information so we can quickly solve any problems
that arise.
Our
ImageKrafter™Design Team double-checks the
proportions of both the sign you approved and the installation
location. Permitting and manufacturing drawings are prepared.
Our sign company
Master Electricians and Master
Sign Electricians design the electrical portions of the sign
if the sign is electrical (State Law, incidentally.)
A
Certified
Engineer designs the structural aspects of the sign.
Our
Installation
Manager reviews everything known about the installation
location to verify that our manufacturing methods will allow for
efficient installation at you particular location, according to what
we've been told and what we have been able to observe.
A
Nationally-Certified Permitting Clerk is charged
with obtaining your City Permit as quickly as possible, if one is
required. Our full-time clerks training and experience proves
invaluable in quickly gathering all the information necessary for City
approvals. All of the steps above contribute to the data
needed to file a City Permit.
Our
Production
Manager verifies that all pertinent manufacturing information
is available, then schedules production. The more "eyes" on a
project, the better!
Exclusive
Automatic
Customer Updates keep our customers informed, so they know
where their sign is in production, when the permits were approved and
when the sign is scheduled for install.
Our
Shop Foreman
verifies again that all pertinent manufacturing information is
available, then has your sign manufactured by our shop
personnel. Again, the more "eyes" on a project, the better!
Quality
Control putting even
more "eyes" on your project, tests and verifies. They then
add either a UL Listing label or an ETL Listing label, depending on the
type of electrical sign.
Our
Installation
Manager now shepherds the installation utilizing our
QualityCertifiedSigns™ trained, State-licensed, technicians.
We are trained to identify and solve
problems before they affect your sign's delivery. If problems
do arise, our sign company's goal is a trouble-free experience for our
customers. Our staff can handle it!
Smaller sign companies have limited
resources to dedicate to problem-solving.
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.
Full Service Facilities
(Designing,
Engineering, Permit
Filing, Listed Manufacturing, State-Licensed Install and Sign Repair)
Please visit our four-building manufacturing campus (Two sets of joined
buildings.) (2017 commercial drone photo.)
If you are seriously considering buying from someone else we suggest
that you also visit their location to observe if they can actually do
what they say they can; or at least “Google” their address. A lot
of competitors who present themselves as manufacturers actually only buy
and resell signs, working out of a house, office building, small
warehouse, or storefront!
Our Gang
"Signs
Manufacturing & (Maintenance) has a BuildZoom
score of 127, which places them above 99% of 222,249 contractors (all contractors of all trades) in
Texas." - BuildZoom
State Licensed Sign Installation and Sign Service
We are
a full-service sign company. We
providesign site surveys,
sign permits, sign installation and sign maintenance services
for electrical and non-electrical signs.
We
provide this work in Dallas, Fort Worth (DFW), and ALL of North and Northeast Texas.
Our State
electrical contractor, and electrical sign contractor license
numbers are: TSCL 18015, TSCL 18016, TECL 17503.
Click the "Installation & Service" tab on the left for specific details on
sign site surveys,
sign permits, sign installation and sign maintenance services.
We serve and have installed signs in the Texas cities of
Area Codes 214, 254, 430, 469, 682, 817, 903, 940, and
972.
Serving Collin, Cook,
Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson,
Henderson, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman,
Lamar, Navarro, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant,
Titus, Van Zandt, Wood, and Wise Counties in Texas.
We also have signs in 43 different
states, and 6 other nations.
The
Knowledge Tree™
- Using Our Website to Learn
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.
An example of our dedication to helping our customers succeed is this website.
It IS the definitive source on signage information, ranked by Alexa® in the top 0.05% of ALL websites in the world, the top 0.01% in the USA!
We
refer to our website as The Knowledge Tree™.
We placed the website online in 1997, and have worked to improve it ever since.
Our database to create it requires over 8,000 pages; more information than some
"encyclopedias."
The Knowledge Tree™ tells you how we manufacture our signage, and why.
Knowledge Tree™
subjects are on the left side of every page.
For instance, click our "Sign Types" tab to the top-left, then pick any of our products,
then explore that page's tabs 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.
Go to our "About" page and select tabs to learn about the
history of Signs Manufacturing, and many other subjects.
Unsure, or unconvinced
about the importance of signage to the survival and success of a
business? Click our "About" page's "Importance of Signage" tab
to learn what Nationwide studies have proven.
Please use and enjoy this 550+ page website with over 3,000 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
and business. Consider "bookmarking" our site as a "favorite" for easier reference
later.
We believe that if you're a knowledgeable purchaser there's a real good
chance you'll become our customer.
Signs are Like Boats
There are $50,000 boats; there are $400 boats. The devil is in the details.
Our websites, our literature, and our quotations describe in detail what we do when building signs, and why we do it.
Many competitive quotations that customers show us, and competitors' websites, are for “a boat.”
We have observed in over 40+ years of manufacturing signs, and in life in general, that no one, ever, includes quality and features in their products that are not described in their literature and quotations.
Have you had a different experience?
Considering the proven importance of a quality sign to the success of a business, do you really want to trust “a boat” to keep your business afloat?
Buyer Beware! You must have finite details to evaluate competitive signage quotations.
Nothing hurts a business more than bad signage.
Literature
We believe we are the only
sign company that offers informative
literature on signage, our "Sign Buyer's
Guide" series.
Our most popular Guides
are:
LED Signs
Full-Color or Monochrome
Lighted 3D Channel Letter Signs
Wall Cabinet Signs
Pole Signs and/or
Pylon Signs
Monument (Ground) Signs
Lobby and
Reception Signs
44 Page Brochure
36 Page Brochure
36 Page Brochure
36 Page Brochure
36 Page Brochure
20
Page Brochure
Additional "Sign
Buyer's Guide" Literature Available:
Would
you like
to be seen on our SignDawgsTV™
Show?
Season 8 of the
reality TV documentary series about Signs Manufacturing™
featuring the signage we create, and the customers we serve in
the DFW Metroplex area of North Texas, is currently being
filmed.
Co-star with William, James, Robert, and the
whole SignDawgs™ crew. Every business ever featured
on SignDawgsTV™
continues to operate successfully. If your business, church, or
school, are interested in appearing in this project be sure to
tell your salesperson so we can immediately arrange for the
producers to contact you.
SignDawgsTV™ is one of YouTube's
most successful series, with 2,000,000+ viewers (we've
officially gone viral+.) Older episodes continue to be viewed
over-and-over.
This could be valuable free advertising for
you.
SignDawgsTV™ debuts bi-weekly on
Tuesdays at 5:00 pm.
You can view allSignDawgsTV™
episodes @
SignDawgsTV.com
Ask if you would like to tour the Sea King
Productions™ Studio Building.
Business hours are 07.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Monday thru Friday (Central Time)
or by Appointment
Office hours are 08.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Monday thru Friday
Showroom hours are by Appointment
Factory Tours by Appointment
TV Studio Tours by Appointment
Emergency Service 24/7
Signs Manufacturing™ does not provide any compensation for testimonials.
None of the photographs in this website, or in our brochures, are “photo-shopped.”
All images in this website, and in our brochures, are of signage we both manufactured and installed, unless identified as bad/funny examples. (Some competitor’s websites contain pictures they’ve taken of our products.)
$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.) Installation available.
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.
year. It is the fourth
fastest growing such area in the world. As fast as in China or India!
Ask your Sign
Consultant for details.
No matter what types of signs you are interested in, our sales team, consisting of 11 highly-trained individuals, is at your beck and call.
Cash, Credit Cards, Conserve You Nest Egg™ 0% 15-month financing, Signs on Time™ Conventional Lease/Purchasing or our Pay as You Grow™ Accelerated Lease/Purchasing.
If you wonder if a sign-seller can legally install and
service electrical signs through-out Texas go to
Let us meet with you in your
office, or at your new sign location, or home, or anywhere.
"Signs
Manufacturing & 
It IS the definitive source on signage information, ranked by Alexa® in the top 0.05% of ALL websites in the world, the top 0.01% in the USA!
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