ADA & Custom Signs – Carlsbad Signs

Southern California ADA / Multifamily Housing Signs

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) changed the legal requirements for access in your building. Nowhere is this truer than in Multifamily housing, but Carlsbad Signs makes these signs for hospitals, office buildings, retail and industrial sites, hotels, and other buildings. Do you need to comply with the legal requirements for new constructions, or want to change from merely plain to a more interesting and attractive, yet compliant building?

ADA signs need not be boring. They can create a comfortable and interesting environment for your customers and staff. Carlsbad Signs uses bold colors, interesting shapes, layering techniques, and different materials to produce unique signs that reflect your business or investment property. We take you beyond the sanitary blue and white ADA signs and allow you to create the environment that suits your business model.

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Sign Types

Businesses Served

Materials and Substrates

Unit ID Signs

What are Unit IDs? These personal signs tell every tenant, office worker, patient, or guest the purpose of the room it sits with. They are found on every apartment door, hospital room, office, or other door. A custom unit ID sign directly improves the look and feel of the complex.

Carlsbad Signs can realize the image you want. Using different shapes, colors, materials, and construction techniques, we can make your building appealing and unique. You know there is a lot of competition out there. Cost is always an issue. The most successful developers know great signage creates value that far exceeds the cost. We create the attractive, high-quality, durable custom signs your business needs to build brand awareness and keep customers coming in and coming back.

Want to learn more about how Unit IDs change the customer dynamic and place your building far above the competition? Call Carlsbad Signs at (760) 599-6537. Your FREE consultation awaits.

Multilayer Unit ID

Acrylic 2nd Surface Unit IDs

Brushed Aluminum Exit Route Sign

Unit ID with fade effect

Unit ID with Doorbell

ADA Directory Sign

Wayfinding Directional

Amenity Signs

Evacuation Maps and Wayfinding Signs

Evacuation maps are required by the fire department and focus on the fastest way to leave the building. Wayfinding signs help people inside the building navigate to certain locations.

Evacuation maps are required at strategic locations and direct the reader to the stairwells leading to the exits or right to them. They work with exit signs and stairwell signs. Evacuation maps always have the building floor plan with the ideal path to leave the building. The alignment (like north) is always the same.

Wayfinding signs are where Carlsbad Signs and your creativity can shine. Wayfinding signs done right complement the unit IDs. Using multiple layers and unique materials set wayfinding signs apart from other signs.

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Stairway & Stairwell Signs

Multi-floor buildings need signs outside each door. Level identification signs are required inside the stairwell. All stair signs on the exit level must have a star next to the floor number. Some local fire codes have size requirements for these signs. We recommend that you always check with your local compliance and fire code authorities before ordering.

“Division of State Architect (DSA) ─ 2011 California Access Compliance Manual Section 1022.8 Floor identification signs. A sign shall be provided at each floor landing in exit enclosures connecting more than three stories designating the floor level, the terminus of the top and bottom of the exit enclosure and the identification of the stair or ramp. The signage shall also state the story of, and the direction to, the exit discharge and the availability of roof access from the enclosure for the fire department. The sign shall be located 5 feet (1524 mm) above the floor landing in a position that is readily visible when the doors are in the open and closed positions.”

“Tactile floor identification signs that comply with 1117B.5.1, Item 1 shall be located at the landing of each floor level, placed adjacent to the door on the latch side, in all enclosed stairways in buildings two or more stories in height to identify the floor level. At the exit discharge level, the sign shall include a raised five pointed star located to the left of the identifying floor level. The outside diameter of the star shall be the same as the height of the raised characters.”