BD Signs — Your brand, built for business BD Signs — Your brand, built for business
Sign makers serving Sheffield

Signage in Sheffield,
for a city that knows metal.

Sheffield is a hard place to sell a cheap sign, and quite rightly. This is a steel city, and a stainless fascia that has been folded badly gets noticed here faster than anywhere else we work. That suits us — we fabricate our own metal rather than buying it in flat-pack.

Forty miles up the M1 — Sheffield is a comfortable day for our fitting teams.

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  • Free survey
  • Made in our own factory
  • Fitted by our own teams
George's Tradition built-up window lettering, installed by BD Signs
Fillets illuminated shopfront fascia lit at night The Hoxton Kitchen circular projecting light box

40 miles

From our factory to Sheffield

4,500+

Shops on our books

25 years

As BD Signs

3,500 sq ft

Showroom you can walk round

Sheffield streets

One city, several different signs.

The trading pitches are distinct and they want different things. Kelham Island and Division Street are independent, industrial and confident, and they carry raw steel, halo-lit letters and hand-made work extremely well. Ecclesall Road and Crookes are neighbourhood high streets where the sign has to work in the dark on a wet evening. Meadowhall and the retail parks are a scale and specification problem altogether.

We work in stainless, brass, aluminium and acrylic, powder-coated to any RAL or Pantone, and we cut and fold in our own factory. Halo-lit letters on a brick wall, fret-cut steel panels, push-through acrylic — all of it drawn, made and installed by us, with the survey done before anybody quotes a number.

We work across Sheffield and the rest of South Yorkshire. If your site is somewhere else, ask — we manufacture in Nottingham and install UK-wide.

Why businesses here use us

How we help Sheffield businesses

Two things matter when you buy a sign. That it gets you noticed, and that it still looks like that in ten years. Most of what separates a good sign from a cheap one is in the parts you never see — the gauge of the metal, the weld, the fixings and the lamps. Here is how that plays out on a Sheffield frontage.

Metal folded properly

This is a steel city and a badly folded return gets noticed here faster than anywhere we work. We cut and fold stainless, brass and aluminium ourselves, dress the welds and finish the edges. Halo-lit stainless letters on brick are hard to beat, and they still look right in ten years.

Reads on a wet Tuesday evening

Ecclesall Road, Crookes and Hillsborough do a lot of their trade after dark in poor weather. That is an illumination problem — even spread with no hot spots burning through the face, and enough contrast that the name is legible through rain rather than a bright smear.

Finishes that survive the weather

Powder-coated rather than wet-sprayed, sealed at every seam, and the right grade of stainless for the exposure. On a hillside frontage taking wind and rain from one direction for twenty years, the specification matters more than the design does.

Fixed so it stays fixed

Sheffield is full of converted works where brick, stone and steel frame all sit in the same elevation and take fixings completely differently. We survey the substrate and specify the fixing before the sign is drawn — the opposite way round to how signs come off walls.

Exterior signage

Shop front signs that work outside

Exterior signage takes the weather, the light and the traffic. Everything here is built for permanent outdoor use, weather-sealed and LED-lit, and fixed by our own installation teams — illuminated fascias, built-up letters, light box trays, projecting signs and roadside totems.

Interior signage

Interior signs that keep them in

The sign gets them through the door. What happens next decides what they spend. Interior signage, wall graphics and counter branding, specified as one scheme so the finishes match the frontage rather than nearly matching it.

Past the frontage

A customer decides three times.

On the pavement, at the door, and at the counter. Most suppliers only help you with the first one. We design the whole journey, and the signage is where it starts.

  1. 1

    On the pavement

    The fascia, the projecting sign and the window. Two seconds to say who you are and what you sell.

    Built-up letters
  2. 2

    At the door

    Entrance graphics, opening hours, the handrail. Small things that decide whether somebody actually comes in.

    Interior signage
  3. 3

    Inside the room

    Wall graphics and counter branding that hold the scheme together once they are through the door.

    Counter branding
  4. 4

    At the counter

    The menu decides what they spend. Lit boards or digital screens, built around margin rather than price order.

    Menu systems
How a Sheffield sign gets made

Survey, design, manufacture, fit.

Four stages, one company, one price. Nobody is sub-contracted in the middle of it, which is why we can give you a date and keep it — including in Sheffield.

  1. 1

    Survey

    We come to you in Sheffield. Measure the fascia, check the fixings and the power, photograph the site, and look at the street it trades on. It costs you nothing.

  2. 2

    Design

    Our designers draw it and visualise it on your building, so you see the sign on your frontage before it is made. We keep designing until you are happy.

  3. 3

    Manufacture

    Made in our own factory — routing, welding, spraying and LED build. The quality is ours to get right rather than a supplier's.

  4. 4

    Installation

    Our own fitters install it, connect it and clear up. Access equipment included, electrics tested and signed off.

Got a frontage in Sheffield?

Send us a photo of it and the name above the door. We will tell you what the building will take and what it costs.

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Brands we make signs for

Heavenly Desserts FSW Churchill's Fish & Chips Deep Blue Fish & Chips The Chesterford Group fishnchickn Bankers Fish & Chips The Bay Fish & Chips George's Tradition Chesters Fish Bits Lesley Greaves Yiayia G's Greek Grill

Signage for Pret A Manger, Wendy's, Heavenly Desserts, Sushi Mania, FSW and Harry Ramsden's — and for several thousand family businesses, who get the same drawings, the same factory and the same fitters.

Sheffield signage FAQ

Questions we get asked in Sheffield

Do you make stainless steel and brass signage?

We do, in our own factory. Brushed and polished stainless, brass, powder-coated aluminium — face-lit, halo-lit or unlit. On a Sheffield brick or steel-framed building, halo-lit stainless letters are hard to beat and they still look right in ten years.

Is Sheffield too far for you to install and maintain?

No. It is forty miles up the M1 and our own fitters do the work. We manufactured it, so if anything does need attention it comes back to us rather than to a supplier you have never spoken to.

Can you sign an old industrial building?

It is some of our favourite work. Brick, steel and stone all take fixings differently, and a converted works usually cannot have anything drilled through the good face. We survey the substrate first and specify the fixing before the sign, not after it.

Do you handle interior signage as well as the frontage?

Yes, and we would rather do both. The frontage gets them to the door; what happens inside decides what they spend. Counter branding, wall graphics, menu boards and wayfinding all come off the same drawings.

Elsewhere

Other cities we make signs for

Signage Nottingham Our home city Signage Derby 16 miles — about 30 minutes Signage Leicester 27 miles — about 40 minutes Signage Lincoln 40 miles — about an hour Signage Birmingham 50 miles — about an hour Signage Leeds 72 miles — about an hour and twenty

We manufacture in Nottingham and install UK-wide, so this list is where we work most, not the limit of it. If your site is somewhere else, ask.

Client testimonials

What our customers say

Reviews on Google
“We recently used BD Signs for digital signage in our fish and chip takeaway and couldn't be happier with the result. From the first conversation, when they squeezed us in when we drove down without an appointment, through to installation.”
N Nicola Atkinson Google review
“A big thank you to the team at BD Signs for all your hard work with our new Digital Menu System. We have 6 screens in total, and a bespoke display box with our branding. I'm quite fussy and particular, and these guys were very helpful from start to finish! Very passionate and customer focused company. Highly recommend!!!”
P Phil Mellon Google review
“Just want to rate George from tech support's service as a 5. Whenever I get through to him he goes above and beyond to support and get the problem sorted quickly and efficiently, he keeps us informed throughout of the problem and where we are with the fix. Great customer service.”
L Lauren Bannister Google review
“Used BD Signs Design and Print services to design a new logo for my company and to design and print some large labels to use on my jobs. Professional service from start to finish. Highly recommended.”
R Richard Ashwell Google review
“Excellent service as always. Friendly staff. Highly recommend.”
G Gracey Google review
“Excellent service as normal — have used BD Signs for the last 20 years and they have always been very helpful and delivered on time and on price!”
A Anton Google review
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Come and see us.

Bring a photo of your frontage, or a problem you have been putting off for three years. We will survey the site, design it properly, and quote the whole job as one price.

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Reviews on Google

Or email info@bdsigns.co.uk — we answer everything the same working day.