A reader asked us to run articles on billboard maintenance.  Today we will reprint an excellent article we published in 2015 by Jon Odom on preventative billboard maintenance.  Odom runs Productivity Fabricators, a Richmond, Indiana company which specializes in producing outdoor advertising structures.  He has been a speaker at OAAA and IBOUSA meetings on billboard maintenance.   Insider asked Odom for tips on steel monopole preventative maintenance and this was Odom’s answer:

• A periodic inspection is important.

• Rust is a steel billboard’s biggest enemy  You should inspect boards for rust.  Mainly around base of column.  Many signs built over the years do not have concrete above the soil.  If you have a fertilized flower bed at the base of the sign the water, soil and fertilizer can mix and create rust.  Go down to where you can see the concrete and inspect.  If you walk up to a sign and can see concrete at the base it’s a good thing.  If the concrete is separating fill it with tar.

• If a bolt is loose, throw it away.  If a bolt is properly tightened it won’t come loose unless it’s experienced heavy wind stress.  If you find a loose one throw it away and use another.

We will run future columns on maintenance schedules for digital and static billboards.

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