If you’re upgrading your facility or moving to a new facility, it is highly likely you’ll also be purchasing some logos and letters or some type of new outdoor signage for your building. Business sign letters are often done using 3D lettering, also known as dimensional lettering, and there are several options available for your logos and letters.

Business sign letters made from cast or cut metal are a great option, but not everyone has the budget to afford metal logos and letters. Metal exterior sign letters come in several types of metal, such as aluminum, bronze, stainless steel, brass, or copper. However, with outdoor letters for signs there are some other options. Fabricated metal outdoor sign logos and letters may be less expensive, but usually are used in conjunction with LED lighting, so the cost is probably even higher than cast metal lettering and logos.

Another option for business logos and letters would be laminated letters, typically made with an outdoor foam with a metal or plastic laminated to the top of the foam, with the edges painted. The edge paint can be either matching or contrasting. Business sign letters made from this material will typically last up to 10 years which is OK if you don’t think you’ll stay in the building more than that amount of time.

Another type of outdoor letters for signs are high density urethane foam. This material is dimensionally quite stable, although if these exterior letters are too near the ground and are bumped or have contact with anyone or anything, the bumped spot will tend to “shed” paint. Otherwise, these are an OK option for outdoor logos and letters, but in my opinion, the cost is too high when there are other less expensive and superior options.

Formed Plastic Logos and Letters for Your Business Sign Letters – It Just Makes Good Sense

Molded plastic letters signs are often quite cost effective, and if purchased from a reputable company will always carry a limited lifetime warranty. The limitation is that the letters can’t be moved. However, we’ve found that even with the limitation, formed plastic letters and logos are often no more costly than laminated options, and are almost always less costly than metal or HDU letters.

There are both molded in plastic colors available, and if you have specific logos and letters colors specified for your company, these letters can also be painted with a urethane enamel and still have a lifetime warranty, if they come from a reputable manufacturer or distributor. The plastic formed letters that we distribute are made from cellulose acetate butyl plastic, or CAB for short. These plastic wall letters or plastic letter signs are weather durable and color fast.

Placing Your Business Sign Letters and Mounting the Logos and Letters on a Wall – Different Ways to Get to the Same Place

Mounting formed plastic business sign letters is done in one of 5 different ways. Mounting patterns can be purchased for letter placement with the letters. If the plastic letters and numbers or logos are specified with a flange, they can be glued to a wall with silicone or they can be screwed to some types of walls with pan-head style stainless steel screws, available at most hardware stores.

Method #2 is just plain stud mounting your formed plastic letters. This method works well for flush mounting letters, but can also be used to set the letters off of the wall as well if a spacer is used. Using your pre-made mounting pattern, holes are drilled in the wall. Silicone glue is squirted into the holes and also on the studs themselves, then the studs are inserted into the holes. The advantage to studs is that they hold the letters in place while the glue is drying.

The third method for installing your business sign letters is known as “pad mounting,” and consists of a plastic disc and threaded metal “studs” that are threaded into special mounting blocks affixed to the backs of your plastic formed letters. A small amount of silicone glue is squirted onto the mounting pads, and then the letter is placed on the wall and taped in place using a painter’s masking tape or similar. This works well on interior walls or smooth exterior walls.

Method #4 is the combination mounting method, where studs are used on the top of the exterior sign logos and letters (typically), and pads on the bottom. This is actually my favorite method, as drilling the holes exactly using a pattern can be somewhat difficult in many exterior walls. It allows a certain amount of movement that is not available if there are 3 or more studs on the back of the plastic letter you’re mounting to the wall. I use tape to move the letter to the right location and hold it there.

The fifth main method for installing business sign letters and logos is the stud/pad combination. This is a pad that has the thread running all the way through it to allow the glue to be primarily on the pad, but so the stud can hold it in place. In reality, when I install plastic formed letters, I might use a combination of studs, pads, and stud/pad combinations to make the installation proceed as smoothly as possible.

There are also some miscellaneous mounting methods that are not used as much, such as the flat surface mounting bracket and the foam filled formed plastic letters and logos, but one way or the other, we can help you get your new business sign letters installed – with that all important lifetime warranty! Check here to see more of lettering graphics.

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