Sign Cleaning

[klingsdesigns]

How many of you offer the service of sign cleaning. I have a lot of customers over the years that do not touch their sign. After a few years they look dirty. I would thing the dirt sitting on them would make the signs fail quicker.

Was thinking of offering this but I feel like it would be a full time job in itself.

 

[0igo]

do it man, dont let the community tell you otherwise, any idea is great idea. I've offered it before with bigger jobs, I had a guy who wanted to a few signs equaled out to around $750 but i offered him a touch up on a smaller sign on the window and told him i would throw it in for free. i ended up charging him $900 with the "free" touch up and he took it. Go for it i dont see why you would pass up on money.

 

[Gino]

This is something we've been offering for years, but got more actively into it, since we got our bucket truck.

We simply call it 'Sign Service'. You offer to clean the inside of dirt, bugs and other crap that has gotten in there, make sure all the wiring is good, check the ballasts and clean the face inside and out. Generally, you re-lamp a sign once a year and include that in your contract. You can also do the same to light standards in parking lots and offer to put up Christmas decorations and other holidays year round and banners across streets for various municipalities for all kindsa functions. However, you must get permits to do this and make sure you have ample liability registered wherever you're gonna perform this work.

 

[T_K]

You gave me a great idea to make some extra money on the weekends. I know any monkey can get out there to wipe them off, but someone in the sign industry should be better able to not screw them up in the process.

 

[rjssigns]

Great idea. I worked with a sign shop that offered a maintenance package on every sign. It was a flat yearly fee. Made a nice chunk of change.

 

[boxerbay]

we had a client bring in a 10x5 backlit sign face. he wanted us to remove the current crackled up vinyl, clean it, apply new vinyl on to it. he brought it in dropped it off. We started cleaning it and 10 minutes into cleaning it the entire sign face crackled like a hardboiled egg. it wasnt lexan. it was old brittle acrylic. job became a big mess. back and forth with client about how he says it was a perfectly fine panel when he dropped it off. we ended up going in half to replace the panel for the client. be careful it could end up a can of worms.

 

[Billct2]

It's more common with electric signs but applicable to any sign.
I always recommend the customer wash & wax their sign twice a year, but most don't
and I've only had a few ask to have it done.