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Client Review
5/5
Wonderful experience!
“If I could give more than five (5) stars, I would! My experience with Signs for San Diego was nothing less than exceptional from start to finish. As a Project Manager for one of Gable’s largest clients, I expect our vendors to deliver high-quality product and/or services.”
Jessica Wurtzer
Jessica Wurtzer
Sign Types
- ADA Exit Signs
- ADA Staircase Signs
- ADA Unit ID Signs
- Banners
- Blade Signs
- Building Signs
- Business Park Monument Signs
- Channel Letter Refaces
- Church Signs
- Commercial Signage Gallery
- Commercial Tenant Panels
- Custom Sign Cabinets
- Dimensional Sign Letters
- Electronic Message Centers for Shopping Malls
- Fast Food, Takeout, and Drive-Thru Signs
- Foam Core Monuments
- Front Face Channel Letters
- Halo Channel Letters
- Interior Wayfinding Signs
- Lobby Signs
- Legal Compliance Signs
- Parking Signs
- Lobby Signs
- Mural Signage
- Neon To LED Conversion
- Plaque
- Post and Panel Signs
- Pylon Signs
- Repair and Service
- Restaurant Signs
- Retail Sign Faces
- Sand Blast Signs
- Shopping Mall Monument Signs
- Swimming Pool Signs
Client Review
5/5
We couldn’t be happier!
We got both of our restaurant signs from them, and we couldn’t be happier! They were affordable, had incredible customer service, and the quality of their product matches their customer service! They even took care of some of our street light issues at no additional charge since they were already on-site with the lift!
They have a new customer for life!
-Brad S
Businesses Served
- Attorney Office Signs
- Automotive Dealership Signs
- Bank Signs and More
- Business Park Signs
- Church and Chapel Signs
- Credit Union Signs
- Dental Office Signs
- Franchisee and Franchiser Signs
- Hospital Signs
- Hospitality and Hotel Signs
- Law Firm Signs
- Military Signs
- Medical Office Signs
- Restaurant Signs
- Retail Shop Signs
- Strip Mall Signs
- Swimming Pool Signs
- Synagogue Signs
Substrates and Materials
- Aluminum use in Signage
- ACM DiBond
- Acrylic Signs
- Castings Materials for Plaques
- Foam use in Signs
- Glass use in Signs
- HDU for Signs
- Laminates in Signs
- MDO Engineered Plywood
- Paper is Signage
- Plywood and Engineered Materials
- Polycarbonate and Lexan
- PVC as a Sign Material
- Stucco and Signs
- Scrim Banner
- Steel and Aluminum
- Vinyl use in Signs
- Wood for Sandblasting
Carlsbad Signs makes and installs massive murals
When you see a modern mural for the 1st time you will be impressed.
These are vibrant, clean, and the perfect canvas for your art project or commercial project. Your reaction may be “wow” if you remember the old painted murals. Murals can mean a lot of different things to different people. To many it means painted walls, bridge supports and other flat services, to others it means sanctioned graffiti. To us it is a vehicle for real artists to express themselves on nice buildings in high profile areas. While we can “paint” the modern way is with a wide format print of a special canvas material
Mural Signs
Lighting Up a Mural sign
Here is a mural that is inside a Highrise building near Washington DC.
The company’s new headquarters space includes a 25-foot LED display wall on the 20th floor, a three-story interior staircase going from the 19th floor to the rooftop lounge. It is visible from a nearby highway and form around half a mile. It is dramatic and certainly design to be eye-catching. It is also so massive and so far up, that the entire sign was made in the shop and constructed or put together on site.
Very wide format printing makes this possible.
Wide format printing is a relatively new technology.
Starting in the 1990s Canon and HP released a machine that used a computer to produce an image. Truth be told, by today’s standards, these were crude machines. Over the 20 years plus this technology has improved a lot. Now we can print wide and very wide images from rolls of material. The rolls are 150 feet and can get much longer. The widths are 12 feet and also can get wider.
The Inks for Murals has improved
There are 3 types of inks in common use, Solvent inks, UV inks and Latex inks.
Solvent inks are under EPA pressure, particularly in California because they outgas. Part of this process in the cure – great strides have been made at limiting the outgassing and making the cure faster, UV inks are in common use for rigid direct print substrates. They do not have the durability of many other types of coatings, Latex inks are the last option, these were the weakest of the three 20 years ago, but today they last longer, are approaching the vibrance of solvent inks and are still improving.
Murals are not directly attached to the wall
Modern murals are like the face of a drub, they fit in the space with the help of an extruded frame.
This frame or channel is what is on the wall. The frame needs to be absolutely flat and coplanar for the mural canvas to lay flat in the space a couple of inches off the wall. This distance can be increased and lighting can be put behind it as well. The murals are durable and last for months or even years, but when their time is up, the frame can be reused for the next mural.
Mural frames and installation
Mural frames are really a system. The system is a special extrusion with pucks that fit into a groove in the extension.
The canvas is leveled and held in place with these pucks places “1/2 in” once the entire canvas is up, the installers go back and pull, tug, stretch, and manipulate the canvas to remove any wrinkles. Once it is as good as we can make it, we drive the pucks into the extrusion and seat them. This tightens the face (like a drum) and creates a perfectly flat piece of art. It is common for minor winkles to still exist, but the sun and a little time, these come out as well. Carlsbad Signs installs these Coast to coast from San Diego to Washington DC
Murals Old vs New
Old murals are hand painted. These required an artist, a lot of time, and damages the wall.
You can still see these on older buildings in downtown areas as they were the choice or advertising in the 1920s through the 1950s. This technique is still used occasionally but is mostly the realm of graffiti artists now. The modern mural is clean, changeable and does not damage the wall surface (with the exception of the frame mount). Better, cleaner, faster and looks “wow”, this type of mural is just superior is all ways.
Carlsbad Signs is the source for massive murals
Need a mural to cover an entire wall?
Need a dramatic show piece at an entrance or a park mural for the ultimate in modern art? Have a building overlooking a high traffic area and what to make a statement with thousands of people looking at your wall? Call us for your FREE CONSOLTAION today, 760-730-5118
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