Commercial Sign Installation in Central Ohio

What our sign installation crews handle

• Exterior wall signs — channel letters, reverse-lit and halo-lit letters, dimensional metal letters, and logo cabinets on brick, EIFS, metal panel, precast, and glass curtain wall.
• Freestanding signs — monument foundations, pylon and pole sign footings, steel columns, and cabinet setting with crane or boom support.
• Illuminated hookup — primary electrical connection, disconnect switches, photocells and time clocks, coordinated with a licensed electrician where the scope requires it.
• Interior and ADA packages — lobby logos, directories, room identification, and wayfinding installed to ADA mounting heights and locations.
• Replacements and retrofits — swapping faces, re-skinning cabinets, and re-lamping neon or fluorescent signs to LED without replacing the whole sign.
• Removals and patching — taking down a previous tenant's sign, patching and painting the wall, and restoring the facade before the new sign goes up.

Substrate, engineering, and wind load

Every wall takes fasteners differently. Brick and block need the anchor placed in the right part of the assembly; EIFS needs backing that carries load past the foam; metal panel and curtain wall usually need blocking or through-bolting coordinated with the building's construction. We identify the substrate during the site survey and detail the attachment on the shop drawings so the installer is not improvising on a lift.

Freestanding signs and large wall signs frequently need engineered drawings for permit review. We produce structural details and, where required, drawings stamped by an Ohio-registered engineer for wind load, so the permit reviewer receives what they asked for the first time.

Working around an active site or an open business

Retail and restaurant installs generally have to happen without closing the business. We schedule lifts early, stage equipment where it does not block the entrance or drive aisle, and coordinate lane or parking closures where the sign hangs over a public way.

On construction projects we work to the general contractor's schedule and inspection sequence. Sign installation usually depends on wall finish, blocking, conduit rough-in, and power being live, so we sit in the coordination conversation instead of arriving on the date in the original contract and finding the wall unfinished.

Do you install signs built by another company?

Yes. We regularly install signs purchased elsewhere, including national-brand packages shipped to a local site. We survey the wall, confirm the sign as delivered can be mounted the way its drawings assume, and tell you before install day if the pattern, blocking, or electrical does not match reality.

We also take over stalled installs — a sign delivered months ago and still crated, or a package where the original installer walked away. Bring us the drawings and the crate and we will finish it.

Permits are part of installation, not a separate errand

Most Central Ohio jurisdictions require a sign permit before installation, and many require an electrical permit for an illuminated sign. Columbus issues a Graphics Permit; suburban jurisdictions run their own reviews, some with architectural or design review on top of the base code.

We research the parcel, prepare the drawings, file the application, and schedule installation around the approval — not before it. That order avoids the most expensive mistake in signage, which is installing a sign that has to come back down.