Sign Installation in Houston, TX
A licensed sign contractor with its own 40′ boom truck, crews and fabrication shop. We install across the Houston metro, including signs we didn’t build.
What are we installing?
Every install below is done by our own crews, whether we fabricated the sign or somebody else did.
Most common
Individual letters and logos set to a layout, wired, and squared on the wall.
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Footings & concrete
Excavation, rebar footing, concrete and setting. The part nobody sees.
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High work
Large-format wall signs on brick, EIFS, metal panel and tilt-wall.
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Crane work
Pole sets, cabinet hangs and tenant panel swaps on existing structures.
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Vinyl install
Wall murals, window film and cut vinyl applied flat, square and bubble-free.
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Install-only
Shipped in from another fabricator or a national program? We set it.
How install-only works →How each sign installation works
Different signs fail in different ways when they go up wrong. Here is what each one actually involves.
Channel Letters & Dimensional Letters
Individual letters are the install most often done badly, because every letter is its own alignment problem. We work off a full-size paper pattern taped to the wall, drill for studs or a raceway, seal every penetration, then wire and test before the lift comes down. Letters that look crooked from the parking lot are almost always a pattern that was never used. See the range at channel letter signs.
- Full-size pattern layout before a single hole is drilled
- Stud-mount, flush-mount or raceway
- Sealed penetrations and electrical hookup by a registered electrician
Monument & Ground Signs
A monument sign is mostly a foundation with a sign on top. We locate utilities, excavate, tie a rebar cage, set anchor bolts, pour, and let it cure before anything goes up. A sign that leans two years later almost always leans because that sequence was rushed. Ground signs are also the ones the City scrutinizes hardest, so the permit and the survey come first. Full range on monument signs.
- Utility locate, excavation and rebar footing
- Anchor bolts set to the engineered drawing
- Electrical stub-out for lit monuments
Building, Wall & Pylon Signs
High work is where equipment decides the job. We run our own 40′ boom truck for most storefront and second-story work, and bring in a crane for heavy cabinet sets and pole signs. Substrate drives the anchors: brick, EIFS, tilt-wall and metal panel each want something different, and EIFS in particular punishes anyone who treats it like masonry. Browse the finished work on outdoor signs.
- Our own 40′ boom truck; crane for heavy sets
- Anchors matched to brick, EIFS, tilt-wall or metal panel
- Traffic control and safe work zones on active sites
Pylon, Pole & Tenant Panel Work
Two different jobs share one structure. A new pole set is heavy civil work: deep footing, engineered pole, crane. A tenant panel swap on an existing pylon is a two-hour lift, and it is what most property managers actually call about. We do both, and we will tell you which one you need after looking at the structure rather than quoting the expensive one by default.
- New pole sets with engineered footings
- Cabinet hangs and re-hangs on existing poles
- Tenant panel swaps for property managers
Wall, Window & Vinyl Graphics
Vinyl is unforgiving: bubbles, lifted edges and misaligned seams all come from the install, not the print. Wall murals, cut vinyl, frosted window film and full window graphics are laid wet or dry depending on the surface and the size, seams planned before anything is peeled. Surface prep matters more than technique. Fresh paint and textured block both need handling before day one. See wall graphics and window graphics.
- Wall murals and large-format cut vinyl
- Frosted privacy film and window graphics
- Surface prep, seam planning and edge sealing
Install-Only: Signs You Bought Elsewhere
National sign programs, franchise rollouts and online fabricators all ship signs to Houston with nobody local to hang them. That is a normal job for us: you send the shop drawings and the sign, we verify the mounting method against the actual wall, pull the permit as the licensed contractor of record, install, and send back photo documentation for your close-out package. We will flag a mounting detail that will not work on your building before we accept the job, not after.
- Franchise and national program rollouts
- We are the licensed contractor of record for the permit
- Photo documentation and close-out package
From site survey to final inspection
The same four steps whether we built the sign or you shipped it to us.
Site survey
We measure the wall or the ground, check the substrate, and confirm power is where you think it is.
Permit & engineering
Houston issues sign permits only to licensed contractors. We file as the contractor of record.
Install day
Our crew, our boom truck, a pattern on the wall and a clean work zone. Usually one day.
Inspection & photos
Electrical signs get a final city inspection. You get photos of the finished install either way.
The installer that is also the fabricator
Most Houston sign installation companies are one of two things: an installer with a truck and no shop, or a fabricator who subcontracts the hanging out. Both work until something is wrong on install day. A bracket that does not fit, a face cracked in shipping, a wall that turns out to be EIFS over foam. Now two companies are on the phone deciding whose problem it is.
We are the same company at both ends. Commercial sign installation, business sign installation and install-only work all run out of the 77084 shop that fabricates signs, so a part that has to be remade gets remade instead of scheduled. That is also why we can take signs we did not build: we can read somebody else’s shop drawings, and we can fix their bracket at 7am.
Looking for a sign installation company near you? Our crews work Houston, Katy, Cypress, Sugar Land, Richmond and Spring. If the sign is already up and it is the wrong sign, that is removal and relocation; if it is the right sign and it is broken, that is sign repair.
One licensed contractor, start to finish
The permit, the fabrication and the install are the same contract with the same company. Need the sign made too? Start with the outdoor sign catalogue or indoor signs.
Questions we get
Will you install a sign you didn't make?
Yes. Install-only is a normal job for us. Send the shop drawings and we'll confirm the mounting method works on your building before the sign ships. We become the licensed contractor of record for the permit.
How long does a sign installation take?
Most storefront installs are a single day on site. Monument and ground signs run longer because the footing has to cure before the sign is set. The permit, not the install, is usually what sets the schedule.
Do I need a permit to install a business sign in Houston?
For most exterior signs, yes. And Houston issues those permits only to licensed sign contractors, not to owners. We file as the contractor of record. See the Houston sign permit guide for how the process runs.
Can you install signs above the first floor?
Yes. We run our own 40' boom truck for most storefront and second-story work, and bring in a crane for heavy cabinets and pole signs.
Do you handle the electrical hookup?
Yes. Lit signs in Houston require a registered master electrician, which is part of holding the sign contractor license. Electrical signs also need a shop inspection before install and a final inspection after energizing. We schedule both.
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