Wall Signs

• Guaranteed Highest Quality...Guaranteed Lowest Price™ - We manufacture the best signs, for the lowest price.
• 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.
• Professional Market Research Consultants - Insuring 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.)

The Value of "Listed" Wall Signs

If the sign you are purchasing does not have a ETL or UL Listing Mark label the sign is probably not legal to install, anywhere in Texas.   There are a few local city ordinance exceptions.

Buy carefully.

Intertek is over twice the size of UL, and has a greater global presence.  UL is the largest in the USA.  We have both companies test and apply Listing Marks to various signs.

Whether it's channel letters, a wall cabinet sign, a monument sign, pole or pylon signs, electronic message centers, video displays, neon or other electric signs Intertek and Underwriter's Laboratory pose the toughest design, structural, electrical, and installation standards on the products they approve.

We are the 9th oldest UL Listed Manufacturer in North Texas.  (File #UXYT.E149959)

To see if a manufacturer is a UL Listed sign manufacturer go to http://database.ul.com/cgi-bin/XYV/template/LISEXT/1FRAME/ccnsrch.html and enter "UXYT" in the "UL Category Code" box, replacing %ccn%" for lighted signs, or "UYFS" for electronic signs.

To see if a manufacturer is an ETL Listed sign manufacturer go to  http://etlwhidirectory.etlsemko.com/WebClients/ITS/DLP/products.nsf/ and enter "UL-48" in the search box.

We are the third oldest ETL Listed sign company in Texas. ( File #4007685)   (One of the two older companies makes lighted scoreboards, the other makes lighted office door signs.)

There are many sign companies that pretend to be Listed, but are not!

Incidentally, ISO (International Organization of Standardization) Standards, such as ISO 9001, are NOT electrical Listings (similar to a UL or ETL Listing) that allow a sign to be installed in Texas.  That said, components in our electronic signs also meet ISO 9001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and RoHS standards.

Underwriter's Laboratory and Intertek do NOT judge the appearance, appeal, or the longevity of a product.  This is why our many years of experience serving international, national, regional and local customers, and our investment so that we can apply the knowledge we've gained, will give you a superior product which will impress your customers for years to come.

Wall Signs 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 aluminium skins are installed; important to prevent rust stains later.

The Importance of Wall Signs 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?

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 cabinet 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.

If you know all the details of the sign you wish to purchase, and desire to buy it right now, click the following link to go to our online Cabinet Sign Purchase Page.

Please stop by and see all of these products displayed in our unique Sign Lighting Laboratory and Display Showroom.

Full-Service Sign Company (Permit Filing, Listed Manufacturing, State-Licensed Install and Sign Repair)

Please visit our four-building production "campus" consisting of two sets of joined buildings. (2002 satellite photo courtesy of Google Earth, 2018 commercial drone photo.)

Learn what type of entrance sign is best for you by viewing the examples in our Sign Showroom.  Your business will be better if you do.

We welcome like-for-like comparisons. If you have another quote, visit their facility and see how they operate. Then come see how we do it. We know you will be impressed with everything that we do for you!  If nothing else, "Google" both production facilities addessses to see the size of each operation. 

Our Dallas signs addresses are 4540, 4550, 4560, 4610 Mint Way, Dallas, Texas 75236.

You will find that many of our competitors (some with very slick looking websites) are presenting themselves as full-service companies but in reality they are only brokers, marking up somebody else's product then reselling it to you. Frequently they don't even have so much as a storefront!

"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