Peter Monkhouse has just celebrated a 20 year
service milestone and as Signs & Lines’ longest serving employee is never at a loss for a good word, or positive contribution. We asked Peter to reflect on how the sign game has changed during his career…

'I’ve seen so many changes over the 20 years I’ve been in the signwriting industry … some people say that I’m so old that I’m part of the furniture here at Signs & Lines [however, I recall that there is  a piece of equipment that is older than me in the fabrication shop (only just!)].

Apart from the obvious advances in technology, which are really too many for me to note here, there is one change that I miss very much – the traditional ‘’Brushy’’.

by Darrel Griffin.

Over the next few weeks on the Sign Blog let’s talk about how one might choose a sign supplier.  As initial conversation starters, I’m focusing on 5 important considerations to help separate the wheat from the chaff: Reputation, Design, Capability, Price and Service.

Firstly, REPUTATION:

I moved to Perth WA from a town called Bournemouth in the UK, where my wife and I had a favourite restaurant.  The service was good and the steaks were outstanding.  As a result, I became almost evangelical about the restaurant.  Whenever the topic ‘where’s a good place to  eat?’ came up, I would pipe up with the name of our favourite restaurant and the reasons why any other choice would be foolhardy!

Check out our new heavy lifting gear!  Delivered in February 2013, these 2 aluminium gantry cranes with electric hoists will ‘lift & shift’ our larger signs as they go through various stages of production in our workshops. This double sided, curved monolith sign is 2.3m by 6m and weighed over a tonne – an easy lift for the new gantries and a great addition for the safety of our workers.