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Bespoke Slate Home Signs
& Slate Address Signs
The slate home signs and slate business signage are made with natural slate with smooth but not highly polished surfaces. This shows the markings and grain of this lovely material - each piece is different.
We cut our slate onsite to any size you require. We can also polish both sides for double-sided slate signs. For a darker finish we can oil the slate.
Our local blacksmith made special wrought iron hangers for the double-sided slate signs. See Fittings We also make wooden posts with hanging arms as well as Wrought Iron Brackets
As for letter colour - we have far more choices along with the standard white. Black is popular along Farrow & Ball colour Lichen, which is light green, or F&B Purbeck Stone, which is a very light grey. Click here to see colours. Memorial gold or silver also available @ £10. Memorial gold looks very similar to gold leaf.
For thicker slate signs (30mm & 50mm) or larger signs up to 600mm x 2100mm please CLICK HERE.
For our made to measure home signs and slate address signs we use slate which is 10-12mm or 18-20mm thick. This can be down cut to any size.
The prices below include VAT. For cheaper slate signs - check out our standard Slate Sign Range
Superior Lakeland Green 20mm Thick Slate
As an alternative to the standard grey slate we also have a very beautiful green slate from a small quarry in the Lake District. The small-scale production guarantees the exceptional quality of this particularly hard, green slate, which has unique markings. More Information
Simple Shaping or 45 degree bevel £7.95,
The above prices include 6 letters
- extra letters - £1.10
Minimum letter size 20mm
Smaller letters, down to 15mm are possible,
if left unpainted - cost 55p per letter.
For smaller painted letters you can use slate corian - Click here
HOLES
It is difficult to drill holes into slate as it requires plenty of water to keep the slate cool. We can drill the holes for you @ £1.10 per standard hole. £1.95 per countersunk hole. 2 holes are ideal on the 100mm high slate and 4 holes on larger slates.
If you do decide to use one of the many adhesives now available we would suggest additional support is used for the largest signs. We can recommend CT1 all-purpose adhesive This can hold signs up to 10kg

This slate sign has four standard holes but also has a
border in relief where we sandblast away the slate.
BORDERS
We can add a line border with indented or square corners to your slate sign at the cost of £9.95 for most standard-size house signs.
Another interesting technique is the border in relief, where the slate around the outside of the sign is blasted away, leaving the required shape in the middle. This border can be painted if required.
When the letters are raised and unpainted, there is no extra cost for surrounding or line borders. We can use decorative borders for raised and unpainted. Borders are more expensive for larger slate signs due to the time it takes to sandblast the stone.
IMAGES
We can include simple pictures on any of the slate signs. We have a selection CLICK HERE available for £12.50, or you can send in your own artwork, which we can use for £34.50. For engraving and painting, they should be silhouette-style images without any very fine lines.
More complex images can also be used, but these will have to be laser etched onto the slate. It is also possible to paint an inlaid panel, and laser etch the design into that.
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Signs - 01769 561355
Memorials - 01769 618585
By email - sales@sign-maker.net
Design Your Own Sign / Plaque:
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