Factory-Direct Monument Signs Since 1979

Monument Signs For Businesses

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 aluminium exterior skins – No rust and the sign will last forever.  Virtually Hail-proof.  EIFS/EFIS (Exterior Insulation and Finish System) construction, on the other hand, is a non-load bearing stucco-coated foam cladding system, used primarily in rental construction where the strategy is to remodel every 10+- years when tenants move out.  EFIS foam monuments are cheaper, but note that they are non-load bearing.  What will be installed on/in it, and how?  They are easily damaged, and virtually impossible to repair.  We do not manufacture EIFS foam signage.

• Masonry, Brick, Stone, and Concrete work is included - Turn-Key installations.  Single-source responsibility.

• Computer-generated graphics – Perfect look, not handmade, much more impressive graphics.

• 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.

• Cabinet insides painted with Solar Finishes™ Bright Reflective White – Because of this special paint the sign always lights brighter, attracting more attention, with no additional electrical cost.

• Impact-modified plastics - Won’t break and look bad.

• SolarGuard™ protected plastics– Won’t fade and look bad to customers.

• Lumabrite™ coated plastics– Because of this coating the sign always looks brighter with no additional energy cost.

• Optigard™ coated flexible sign faces – This coating eliminates yellowing, which makes a sign look old and dingy, chasing potential customers away.



• Vandal resistant coatings – Your sign won’t be intentionally damaged.

• Self-cleaning sign faces– Your sign never looks dirty and dingy, chasing potential customers away.

• Brighter Signs™ technology – Brighter signs always draw more attention.

• Energy Saving Signs electrical –  Saves 35% or more of electricity costs, some signs can even be solar powered.

• UL or ETL listed sign – Can be legally installed anywhere, and moved anywhere at a later time.

• Automatic Factory-Calibrated Electronic Lighting Controls – Automatically turns the sign “on” and “off” any time lighting will draw more attention to your business. 

• One-Stop Shopping -  We design, engineer, permit, manufacture, install, even service these signs.  Brick, masonry and concrete too.

The Special Features and Benefits of doing business with Signs Manufacturing™

• We sell our signs FACTORY-DIRECT, WHOLESALE to the public, INSTALLED.

• Guaranteed Highest Quality...Guaranteed Lowest Price™ - We manufacture the best signs, for the lowest price.

 WHOLESALE TO THE PUBLIC!

• 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!
• We Actually Manufacture the Signs, Locally – Single-source responsibility.  No middlemen.
• 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.
• 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.
•  ImageKrafters™ Design Consultants and The Design Tank™Digital Design Studio – Hundreds of years combined experience.  Creative sign designs that make our customers more successful.
• Day-Light Designs^™ – Take full advantage of our automatic lighting controls and our SolarBrite™ LongLife™ LEDs  to draw even more attention to your business. 

• Professional Market Research Consultants – Helping insure that your signage meets your needs.
• Lifetime* Warranties – Save you money forever.
• Product Liability Insurance – Protects you and your customers forever.
• Deposit Insurance – Your money is protected even if we were to default.
• Established 1979 – We back our claims.
• Eleven Person Your-Location Sales Team – At your location to help you anytime we are needed.
• Exclusive Automatic Updates System - Keeps 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.
• State Licensed Electrical Sign Contractor – We know our business and do our job.
• State Licensed Electrical Contractor – We know electricity.
• Trained QualityCertifiedSigns™ Technicians – We understand quality.
• Electronic LED Sign Experts – Because we manufacture them, we also know how to fix them all.
• 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!

Monument Sign vs. Pole Sign - Do you have a choice?

If you have a choice, install a pole sign!  We can also build and install it for you.  You will be glad you did.

McDonald’s says that, on-average, simply replacing a monument sign in front of one of their restaurants with a pole sign increases that store’s sales volume 15%.

Click "HERE" to learn more about pole signs.

Guaranteed Highest Quality...Guaranteed Lowest Price^™

Everything will be done to make your sign look better, and last longer...Guaranteed.

WHOLESALE TO THE PUBLIC!  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.

"Fifteen years ago you made a lighted sign for me.  It STILL looks new, but finally needs electrical service..."

Lawrence Badger, M.D.

Full-Color & Monochrome Digital LED Electronic Message Centers & Video Displays in Monument Signs

To learn about our Sunburst LED Signs™, which we can include in monument sign designs, click “HERE.

If you would like to see if an LED sign is will be beneficial to your business, and how much it will cost, Contact Us for a free, no obligation quote and analysis of your business, projected increase in sales (based on Small Business Administration numbers), traffic counts in your area and the cost of a new sign.

Recognize that there is documented evidence that simply adding a Digital LED Sign increases a businesses entire sales volume 15 - 150%.

Monument Sign Construction

For strength, durability, and appearance your illuminated signs will be constructed of aluminium (#3003, H14 - not the "soft" aluminium 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 real and artificial brick, stone, and stucco exterior finishes.  View our "Bricks & Masonry" page, tabbed to the left.

Our signs are properly engineered to withstand the winds of North Texas (140 m.p.h.); signs attached to poles are welded, not bolted, in place.

Some companies use plastic, Dibond and ACM-type products for their cabinet skins.  Your Texas sign gets heated!  Dibond and ACM Sheets (Aluminum Composite Materials) which sandwich polyethylene between two thin sheets of aluminum are especially subject to warping.

Plastics and metals expand and contract at different rates.  With Dibond and ACM-type sheets used outdoors, because they are made of two dissimilar types of materials (plastic and aluminium) warp with temperature, hot and cold.  They are not designed for this application, but some sign companies manufacture outdoor signs using them.

They shouldn't.

The Safety Feature of a Fixed Bottom Retainer

Unlike virtually all other manufacturers, we realize that if the bottom retainer, which is simply screwed in place on most signs, falls off, a plastic sign face also falls off; probably breaking.  Our bottom retainer is a fixed part of our sign, and is not removable without disassembling the entire bottom of the sign cabinet.  Much safer.

Certified Monument Sign Welding

We employ Certified Welders for our monument signage; 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 aluminium 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?

Retainer Types

There are two different retainer types, 3-D "Picture-Frame" retainers, and "flat" retainers.  Which one you choose can dramatically affect the appearance of your sign.  View these retainer styles in our Showroom to understand their differences.

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 aluminium 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 "Specifications" tab in the left column.  This is a tool for your use to insure that quotations you receive are for the same sign!

What are Day-Light Designs™

Knowing that our signs will be illuminated during the day, we design our signs and lighting for daylight effectiveness to take full advantage of daytime lighting.

For instance, we pack backlighting to create a subtle glow during the day. If you are going to light a sign during the day, the lighting had better look good!

This is easier to accomplish when we incorporate our SolarBrite™ LongLife™ LEDs, which are much brighter than competitive LEDs.

If we didn’t use SolarBrite™ LEDs, we couldn’t design and build signs that offer such an advantage compared to competitive signs (both our competitors’ and your neighbors’ signs). We don’t waste electricity, because our signs always stand out—even when both are lighted.

“We prosper because of our sign. Signs Manufacturing’s unique understanding of the use of colors and light both day and night causes our business to always be the most visible. No one else could work their magic!” – the 407 club

Certifications & Accreditations

We are a full-service sign company.  We don't just build commercial signage, custom LED signs, monument signs and more ... we also 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.

Texas Electrical Sign Contractors License. TSCL18015, TSCL18016

Texas Electrical Contractors License. TECL17503

Our technicians are also Quality Certified™ professionals.

Signage built to Underwriters Laboratories (U.L.) standards, File # UXYT.E149959 (inspected, tested and nationally approved design and manufacturing).

Signage additionally built to Intertek (E.T.L.) standards, File # 4007685. (inspected, tested and nationally approved design and manufacturing.)