The sun’s UV rays can beat down on the finish of your signs. This causing the gloss finish to fail, allowing the colors to fade. It happens daily but it’s so gradual it goes un-dected. Until that one day you notice your sign looks kinda bad, by then the damage is already done. Signs that are in constant sun light, show this much sooner. Cleaning the sign and adding a UV clear coat protection will help prevent the sun from amaging your sign so fast. Sometimes restoring the colors that was thought to be lost. The sun’s heat plays a role in your sign as well. As heat builds up, it causes most materials to react. Expand and contract, this process repeated daily causes the moister protection of your sign to fail. When heat causes the materials to expand, now that the seals have failed, they allow water to get in. Water attracts dirt, this prohibits the materials to contract back to there original state. This keeps allowing more and more water and dirt inside the sign. This is where rot and rust get introduced to your sign. |
Rain doesn’t really clean your sign.
When your sign gets wet, it usually attracts dirt, much like
your car after a rain?
This is another slow process that builds up and hides the beauty
of your sign and could help in the failure of it’s finish.
The failed finish allows UV rays in to do more damage and
the process of dirt getting wet and drying has a corrosive
effect on the finish of everything.
Dirt left to it’s own can grow thicker, allowing and promoting
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The wind, after a rain it helps dry up the water and moisture
left behind. It’s a good thing. But sometimes during storms, the wind
breaks tree limbs, throwing around debris, this could cause damage
to your signs. It could. Cars drive by stirring up dirt and sand, this has a
sandblasting effect on signs, if close to the road, stripping away the finish
allowing them to deteriorate faster. Usually worse on one side of the sign or
entrance. The wind has even knocked signs down or knocking them over.
Also the power of the wind can shake, twist, rattle and rock a sign so much
that it loosens bolts and screws, used to support your sign. Even weaken
the foundation that holds it. Once any part loosens, it only gets worse, and
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| Refreshing / Restoring / Repaint / Repairs / Replace |
| Refreshing A simple cleaning can restore the color and the curb appeal of your sign. This is a good time to inspect your sign for potential problems. |
| Restoring If a cleaning doesn’t quite do the job, it’s because the colors have already started to faded. Now would be a good time to clear coat the sign. This will help protect the sign and restore the colors. |
| Repaint After cleaning your sign, if we find that the finish is gone, colors too, This would be the time to repaint your sign, restoring it back to it’s original condition. This also would be a good time to change the colors of your sign, if your in the need of an updated look fresh new look. |
| Repairs If damage is found as cracks, splits, rust, rot, or mold. It needs to be repaired as soon as possible. It destroys the materials used to make your sign, and as it spreads it can worsen it's appearance and weaken it’s structures. |
Replace |
