Need Help How to Attach Dibond Signs to Existing Protruding Metal Bar

[Sophiesophie]

Hi I’m a total newbie, in England

I’ve taken over an abandoned premises and took down their rotten wood hanging sign - I’ve ordered 2 x (850mm x 750mm) Dibond 4mm deep signs with 4 drill holes (5mm I think) at top and 2 in bottom corners.

Could anyone tell me please how to securely hang them, back to back, from the existing metal bar protruding from brick wall about 4.5 meters (15ft) above pavement?

Also if anyone has a good recommendation for a solar light to attach to it that would be great.

Thank you

 

[ddarlak]

Sorry to inform you that this will not work. DiBond is very wimpy and cannot handle the stress you are about to put it through. I would mount the sign you ordered to something that would, then install that. Unless you can cancel the order and get appropriate material

 

[White Haus]

Hire a sign company.

 

[JBurton]

Two pieces of flat stock steel mounted to either side, drill holes, use shackles and locktite.
This is assuming Sophie is opening her own sign shop...

 

[unclebun]

3/4" marine plywood or double sided MDO plywood sign board cut the same size as the signs, sanded, primed, edge filled, painted at least 2 coats with gloss oil based enamel paint. Mount the signs on the plywood, then hang using the snap rings on the pole to eyescrews you have put in the top edge of the plywood or using two of the hanging brackets you can get from a sign supply that go on both sides of the sign and are held on with two or three bolts & nuts.

Anything lighter than that is going to whip around in the wind far too much.

 

[JBurton]

3/4" marine plywood or double sided MDO plywood sign board cut the same size as the signs, sanded, primed, edge filled, painted at least 2 coats with gloss oil based enamel paint. Mount the signs on the plywood, then hang using the snap rings on the pole to eyescrews you have put in the top edge of the plywood or using two of the hanging brackets you can get from a sign supply that go on both sides of the sign and are held on with two or three bolts & nuts.

Anything lighter than that is going to whip around in the wind far too much.

This is better, though I'm not a fan of relying on an eyescrew threaded into wood.

 

[Gino]

Use either 6mm or 10mm alumalite. Use regular sign hangers and add a chain at the bottom so the wind doesn't let go dancing around

You are not a sign shop, so why are you asking the questions instead if the sign shop. Technically, you shouldn't be on this site.

 

[Humble PM]

And don't forget to check that all the fixings to the wall are sound - if the sign comes down in a storm, and happens to hit someone, or something, you'll be the one on the hook for the installation (and if you're not a professional signmaker/installer/builder/engineer/etc, you're insurance won't cover you).

 

[tulsagraphics]

Two pieces of flat stock steel mounted to either side, drill holes, use shackles and locktite.
This is assuming Sophie is opening her own sign shop...

Angle iron can work too. This isn't my install - I simply changed out some vinyl on it. (these ranch folks wanted to build their own frame) It's been up for at least 6 years. Holding up great.

 

[ProSignTN]

Tulsa do you have any idea what the wind deflection force at 3' is versus the wind deflection at 15'?

 

[ProSignTN]

Wind don't blow at 3'.

 

[tulsagraphics]

Wind don't blow at 3'.

I get the point, but here in Oklahoma, near the top of a hill with no trees -- we see 80mph winds at times, and occasionally worse. (customer has an anemometer installed on a fence about 10 feet away from that sign). Just because something is installed at ground level doesn't mean it's immune to wind. If that were the case we'd all be printing our banners on cardstock. No way Sophie's sign is seeing the same abuse as what we get here in the open plains of the Midwest.

 

[JBurton]

(these ranch folks wanted to build their own frame)

I see, must be C clamp ranchers. Salt of the earth.

 

[Todd Jelle]

Swinging signs can be a real liability if you don't understand wind load. Many cities don't allow them at all & if they do, they are required to have a lower support to control the sign in a high wind.The structure supporting the sign better be up to job as well

 

[unclebun]

And yet in the UK, where the OP is, there have been such signs hanging since the Middle Ages.