Design → Build → Install

Our Process

From first sketch to final install — a straightforward, all-under-one-roof path to a sign that gets you noticed.
★★★★★  Full service sign company    Fabrication & design    Installation & service    Alexandria, VA

How We Build Your Sign

A great sign is more than fabrication — it’s design, engineering, permitting and installation working together. Here’s how a project goes from first call to installed, with one team accountable the whole way.

1. Consultation

We learn your goals, location and budget — and survey the site when needed.

2. Design

We create your sign and share a proof so you see it before we build.

3. Permitting

We handle the permits your locality requires so the install is legal.

4. Fabrication

Your sign is built in our shop with quality materials and finishes.

5. Installation

Our crews install it cleanly and to code — then service it down the road.

After Install

We're Here for the Long Haul

Signs work hard, day and night. When a lamp fails or it’s time to upgrade to efficient LED, our service team keeps your investment looking its best — with work that’s guaranteed.
Good to Know

Frequently Asked Questions

We’re a full-service sign company. We make 3-dimensional and illuminated letters, neon and illuminated displays, wall-mounted storefront and building signs, free-standing monument and pylon signs, vehicle lettering and graphics, and large-format printing.

Both. We fabricate, install and service signs. Our crews handle professional installation, plus repair and re-lamping of electric and illuminated signs throughout the Washington metro area.

We’re headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia and serve businesses throughout Northern Virginia and the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area — generally within about a 50-mile radius of DC.

Yes. As a full-service shop we handle the fabrication, permitting and installation so your sign goes up legally and safely.

Yes. We service and repair electric and illuminated signs, re-lamp and retrofit to energy-efficient LED, and get failing or dim signs looking their best again.

Absolutely. We fabricate to your exact brand colors, fonts and specifications, and can match or complement signage you already have.

Yes — illuminated signage is a specialty. We build neon and illuminated displays, lit 3-dimensional letters, and internally illuminated wall and free-standing signs.

We do. Along with permanent signage we produce vehicle lettering and graphics and large-format prints — banners, decals and digital graphics.

Yes. All of our services and products are guaranteed. We stand behind our personal service and the quality of everything we build and install.

Call us at (703) 780-2451, email thesignmachine@cox.net, or send a message through our contact page. We’ll follow up with a fast, no-obligation quote.

Ready to make your business impossible to miss?

From a single storefront sign to a full multi-site rollout, we design, fabricate, install and service it — start to finish. Tell us about your project and we’ll get you a fast, no-obligation quote.