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Now is a Perfect Time for Spring Cleaning your Signs
Just like your house or car, your signs could always benefit from a good spring cleaning. The usual extremes in weather in the latter months can take a toll on outdoor signage. Just look at some of these photos. In the summer months, especially in the southern states, the sun and the heat can warp sign faces, fade colors, even crack medium quality vinyl. You may notice the faces on your pylon sign, channel letters, and even your car wraps may start to fade and discolor. In the winter, the cold can crack your sign faces. It can even damage bulbs and cause them to go out. Some key points to look out for on damaged or worn out signage: – Your white signs faces start to look yellow and colors have started to show signs of fading. This is usually caused by extended exposure to heat and sun. Sign faces can usually be replaced in most cases. – Your vinyl letters and graphics are peeling, cracking at the edges, and aren’t as vibrant as they once were. The constant expanding and contracting of vinyl over time will cause your edges to start to peal and sometime cause medium to lower quality vinyls to crack over time. Couple this with long hot summer days and you have a recipe for damaged vinyl graphics.

- Your sign faces and channel letters have cracks, pieces missing, or even an entire face missing. You can usually attribute this to weather (hail, high winds, etc), drastic temperature changes (like a 80 degree day to a 30 degree cold front), and unfortunately vandals. – Your lighted sign just isn’t a bright as it used to be, or portions of it have gone dark. Lights get old and fade, they sometime even blow out. We’ve all see the photos of signs with letters out that end up saying something that may be completely unwanted at night. That’s why it’s always a good thing to check out your sign at night every once in a while if you don’t normally do so. Things happen, and we get busy during the chaos of the holidays and the new year. Take some time do some spring cleaning for your signage. Change out those old yellow and faded sign faces. Get that old crackled and pealing vinyl off your car and store windows and get some new graphics installed. If your letters are missing pieces or if your missing whole letters get them replaced. It’ll not only prolong the life of the cabinet that houses the lighting but also keep your professional image intact. Are some of your lights out? Have your bulbs or lighting fixed or replaced. Make sure customers can read your signs both day and night. So get out there and take a look at your signs, inspect, take photos. Make sure your signage not only looks good but is also functioning properly. You’ll be glad you did.