How to Build Construction Signs
Properly placed construction signs can save lives and keep people free of injury. For a personal home project, construction business or even for home decoration, building your own construction signs allows you to warn people of an unsafe area. Sometimes construction signs are even used for novelty as decoration in a bedroom or on a bedroom door. Homemade construction signs put the words and cautionary warning in your hands. Every sign is different and every warning important. Keep people safe and aware of what they may be walking into by creating your own construction signs.
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Things You'll Need
- Thin aluminum sheets
- Metal shears
- Safety gloves
- Computer
- Printer
- Sticker paper
Instructions
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Cut the aluminum sheets with the metal shears. Cut the shape and size of the sign you want to create. Many signs that you see every day, like crosswalk signs and stop signs, are around 30-inches by 30-inches.
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Design the sign you wish to create on the computer. In a drawing program, or even a word processing program, choose the shape option and create a rectangle, triangle or whatever shape your sign is taking. Use the measurements in the drawing or word processing program to get the dimensions the same as your cut sheet of metal.
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Type the text inside the shape you created. Add color to the sign design. Use a picture of an actual sign to get the colors correct.
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Insert your sticker paper into your printer. Print out your signage onto the sticker paper. Peel the sticker paper off and apply it to the piece of metal that you cut. Post the sign in a construction zone of your own.
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Tips & Warnings
You may not have a personal printer big enough to print 30-inch by 30-inch papers out. You may have to go to a printing store and have them print it out for you. Often they can even print your sign directly on your piece of metal. But you usually have to buy the metal from them for them to print it directly on it.
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- Photo Credit construction image by Horticulture from Fotolia.com
