#1 Sign Company in Greensboro, NC
JED Signs builds monument signs in Greensboro and the towns around it. A monument sign is the low, solid sign that sits on the ground at the front of a property: a brick or stone base, a lettered face, sometimes lights or a message board. It is the first thing a driver on Wendover or Battleground reads before they decide to turn in.
Get a free monument sign quote
Send the form, then text a photo of the spot to 336-579-0766 for a drawing and written price.
We are a sign company that does the whole job. We measure the spot, draw the sign, handle the permit paperwork, dig and pour the footing, build the base and set the face. You deal with one crew from the first drawing to the day the lights come on.
Monument signs built in Greensboro
Most of our work is ground signs for businesses, neighborhoods, churches and schools in Guilford County. A storefront wants its name readable from the road. An HOA wants an entrance that looks like it belongs with the houses behind it. A church wants a place to post the week's service times without a ladder and a box of plastic letters.
Each of those is a different build, but they share the same bones. There is a footing under the ground, a structure that holds the face, and a face that has to stay readable through summer sun and winter ice. We spend as much time on the parts nobody sees as on the lettering, because the hidden parts decide whether the sign still stands straight in fifteen years.
The five things we build
Business monument signs come first. These are the ground signs in front of shops, offices, medical practices and office parks, built in brick, stone or aluminum post and panel. If you run a business on a busy road, start with the ground signs we build for storefronts.
Subdivision and HOA entrance signs are the second. These are the walls and piers at the front of a neighborhood, usually brick or stone with cast or cut lettering, often with plantings and landscape lights. Northwest Guilford keeps adding new neighborhoods, and each one needs a front gate.
Church and school signs are third. Most of these now carry a digital message board on a brick base, so the sign can say something new every week. Fourth is LED and illuminated monument signs: lit cabinets, halo-lit letters and full-color message centers for anyone who needs to be seen after dark.
The fifth is repair. A lot of good signs around the Triad just need new faces, fresh paint, re-set stone or working lights. We fix and refresh existing monument signs as often as we build new ones.
Business Monument Signs
Brick, stone and aluminum ground signs for shops, offices and medical centers.
Subdivision and HOA Entrance Signs
Brick and stone entrance walls and signs for subdivisions and HOAs.
Church and School Signs
Digital message boards and changeable letter signs on brick bases for churches and schools.
LED and Illuminated Monument Signs
Lit cabinets, halo-lit letters and full-color LED message centers.
Monument Sign Repair and Refurbishment
New faces, letters, paint, masonry fixes and lighting for existing signs.
Why Piedmont clay and Triad weather matter
The ground here is red clay. It holds water after a rain, swells, then shrinks back when it dries out. A sign base sitting on a shallow footing in that clay will crack and lean. You can see it at older entrances all over the county: a brick pier tipped a few degrees, a mortar joint split from top to bottom.
So we dig deeper than looks necessary, set gravel for drainage, and pour a footing sized for the sign and the soil. Above ground, the weather does its own damage. Humid summers bring strong afternoon thunderstorms with wind and lightning, and every few winters an ice storm coats everything. Faces get picked for UV and impact, paint gets picked for humidity, and the wiring on lit signs gets surge protection.
Towns we cover
We work across Greensboro itself, from the Friendly Center area out to Gate City Boulevard and High Point Road. Past the city line we build in High Point, Jamestown and Archdale to the south, Summerfield, Oak Ridge and Stokesdale to the northwest, Browns Summit to the north, Pleasant Garden to the southeast, Kernersville to the west, and Gibsonville and Burlington to the east.
Each town has its own rules and its own look. High Point has its showroom district and its own permit office. The northwest side is mostly new subdivisions. Pleasant Garden and Browns Summit are mostly county land. We sort out which office reviews the sign before we draw anything.
How a sign project runs
It starts with the form. Tell us what kind of sign you want and where it will go, and if you can, text a photo of the spot to 336-579-0766. We come out, measure, check sight lines from the road and look for buried lines.
Next comes a drawing to scale with sizes, materials and colors. Every sign is quoted by size, materials and lighting, with a drawing and the price in writing before any digging starts. Once you sign off, we handle the permit application, call in the utility locates, then dig, pour, build and set the face. Lit signs get wired and tested before we leave.
Get a free quote
The fastest way to start is the form on this page. Send the address and a rough idea of what you want, email a photo to jedsigns101@gmail.com, and we reply with questions or a time to come measure. The shop is open Monday through Thursday from 8 AM to 5 PM and Friday from 8 AM to noon, closed on weekends, and form messages that come in after hours get answered the next working day.
Mon–Thu 8 AM–5 PM · Fri 8 AM–12 PM · Sat–Sun closed