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Installing 4 x 8 outdoor sign

signlords

New Member
home depot, lowes..hardware store

Hey I was also curious about these. I am sure this sounds dumb but I checked Home Depot, Lowes, Ace, and some mom n pop hardware shops in my area. Literally printed your pictures and showed them to all of them. Nobody has anything remotely resembling those corner inserts or T Braces. I googled searched the names/part numbers on your print out, and still came up with nothing.
 

ams

New Member
Hey I was also curious about these. I am sure this sounds dumb but I checked Home Depot, Lowes, Ace, and some mom n pop hardware shops in my area. Literally printed your pictures and showed them to all of them. Nobody has anything remotely resembling those corner inserts or T Braces. I googled searched the names/part numbers on your print out, and still came up with nothing.

I believe at Lowe's they are in the wood section with the posts and plywood, or at least they have similar.
 

Drip Dry

New Member
Hey I was also curious about these. I am sure this sounds dumb but I checked Home Depot, Lowes, Ace, and some mom n pop hardware shops in my area. Literally printed your pictures and showed them to all of them. Nobody has anything remotely resembling those corner inserts or T Braces. I googled searched the names/part numbers on your print out, and still came up with nothing.

I buy them by the box from my regular supplier. They sell awning material. I think that's why they have them.
PM me if you want the name
 

visual800

Active Member
I never knew how difficult it was to install a 4x8 dibond sign on cinder block

Try this. drill 4 holes in it, 1 in each corner use masonry screws and some dabs on silicone, paint screws back ground color and walk away
 

Signed Out

New Member
What else are others using to trim out their signs? We do a lot of signs with the 1" square aluminum tubing and connectors as shown in an above post. We usually trim it with the 1"x3/4" anodized aluminum angle that is often packaged with the aluminum tubing and connectors form sign suppliers. But we'd like to find larger, preferably 1.5"x1.5" trim in 20' lengths with different finish options. Anodized doesn't take paint well at all. Also with 1.5"x1.5" trim, you can use pressure treated 2x4s instead of the 1" aluminum tube, which in my opinion will look much better with a beefier border. And the pt 2x4s are cheaper than the 1" alum tube, and easier/quicker to build on site. I've looked into staircase molding as suggested above, but what I could find is too small and only offered in 8' lengths.

We are currently doing a 32'x4' wall mounted sign and considering different options for trimming it out is why I ask.
 

Billct2

Active Member
We bend our own trim on an 8' brake. You can use different colors of .040, paint it, or cover it with vinyl.
 
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