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Signage & Displays
A sign at the road works while you're asleep, and it never sends you a bill. The only real question is how long you need it to last — because that answer decides the material, and the material decides most of the price.
What's covered
From a weekend event to a permanent storefront.
Printed panels
Full-colour panels on Coroplast for temporary work or Dibond where it has to stay up and stay looking right.
Cut graphics on panel
Solid-colour lettering cut and applied. Sharper edges, longer life, and often cheaper than printing the same layout.
Wall graphics & wraps
Interior and exterior. Surface texture matters more than people expect — we'll check it before quoting.
Window graphics
Storefront lettering, hours, frosted effects and full window coverage. First and second surface both available.
Backlit panels
Panels built for illumination, where the material has to carry light evenly rather than just look right in daylight.
Realtor & property signage
Listing signs, lot markers and directional work, built for the weather they'll sit in.
Rodeo & stampede graphics
Arena banners, sponsor boards and event signage. We know the timelines these run on.
Weddings, parties & corporate
Welcome boards, seating plans, directional signs. One-offs done properly.
Floor graphics & surface decals
Wayfinding and branding underfoot, on material rated to be walked on.
Materials
Buy the lifespan the job actually needs.
Most signage disappointment comes from putting a temporary material into a permanent job. These two cover nearly everything, and they're not competitors — they're for different lengths of time.
Coroplast
Temporary and seasonalCorrugated plastic sheet. Light, inexpensive, easy to stake or hang. The right answer for events, listings, elections and anything with an end date.
- One to three years outdoors
- Cheap enough to do in quantity
- H-stakes, grommets or direct mount
- Fades faster in full sun
Dibond
Permanent exteriorAluminium composite — two aluminium skins bonded to a solid core. Rigid, flat, and it doesn't flex or yellow. This is what a business sign should be made of.
- Seven to ten years and beyond
- Stays flat, won't sag or curl
- Post, wall or standoff mounted
- Cut edges sealed so they stay clean
UV is harder up here than it is on the coast — elevation costs you sun protection. A Coroplast sign that would give you three years in the Lower Mainland will fade faster in a Cariboo summer, and a south-facing panel always goes before the shaded one.
If a sign is going up permanently, we'll steer you to Dibond even when Coroplast would be an easier sale. Replacing a faded panel in two years costs more than doing it once in the right material — and it's your name up there while it looks tired.
What it costs
Quoted by size, material and how it goes up.
Signage prices spread widely, and the spread is mostly material and mounting rather than artwork. A yard sign and a post-mounted Dibond panel can carry identical designs and be an order of magnitude apart.
- Size and quantityTen of the same sign costs far less per unit than one. If you're going to need more later, order them together.
- SubstrateCoroplast, Dibond or window film. This is the biggest single lever on the number.
- Single or double sidedRoadside signs usually want both faces. It's close to double the material, not double the job.
- Mounting and accessStakes into soft ground is one thing. Post holes, brackets, height or anything needing a ladder is another.
For anything mounted to a building or set in the ground, we'll come and look. Wall material decides the anchors, and the wrong anchor in the wrong substrate is how signs come down in a wind.
A multi-panel roadside board near Bridge Lake — permanent material, built for the traffic going past.
How the job runs
Four steps, and one of them is yours.
Sort out the scope
Where it's going, how long it needs to last, and how it gets mounted. Those three answers decide the material.
Design & proof
Layout built for the viewing distance — a sign read at 80km/h is a different design from one read from the sidewalk. Design is a paid step and appears on your quote.
Production
Approved artwork goes into production on the specified substrate with the right laminate, then ships to Bridge Lake.
Install
Set properly, anchored to suit the surface, cut edges sealed. Or collect it and put it up yourself if that's the plan.
Timeline Panel stock isn't always local — larger Dibond and bulk Coroplast orders come from the Lower Mainland, so the sheet can take as long to arrive as the printing does. Event work especially: come to us early. A rodeo banner needed for Saturday is a very different conversation on Monday than it is on Thursday.
Recent work
Up and holding.
Questions we get asked
The ones that come up every time.
How long will a Coroplast sign last out here?
One to three years, and the range is mostly about sun. Facing north in the shade, you'll get the top of it. Facing south in an open field at elevation, expect the bottom. If it needs to outlast that, it wants Dibond.
Do you install, or just supply?
Either. Plenty of clients collect yard signs and put them out themselves. Anything wall-mounted, post-set or above head height we'd rather do ourselves — the mounting is where signs fail.
Do I need a permit?
Sometimes, depending on where you are and what you're putting up. Permanent signage on commercial property and anything near a highway are the usual triggers. We're not the permitting authority, so check with your local office — but ask us early and we'll flag if we think it's likely.
Can you match a sign I already have?
Usually. Bring us a photo and measurements, or the original artwork if you have it. Matching an existing colour exactly is easier with a Pantone reference than with a photo, so dig out any brand paperwork you've got.
How fast can you turn an event sign around?
It depends on production and freight, and both are outside our control — which is why we won't promise a date we can't hold. What we can tell you is that early conversations get better outcomes. Tell us the event date first, not last.
What about window graphics — will they wreck the glass?
No. Window film removes cleanly with heat. Frosted and cut vinyl both come off without residue when they're within their service life; left far past it, expect a longer removal job.