Road Sign Frames
HERMEQ road sign frames carry temporary signs for traffic management and for pedestrian and vehicle safety on roadworks, utility works and construction sites. The frames include powder-coated steel mini quick fit frames, larger quick fit frames on 750mm centres, lighter plastic and EnduraSign quick fit frames, and Urban Sign System posts that take the sign face directly on the post. Alongside the frames, the range holds plastic quick fit signs for road closures and lane closed wickets, and the frame weights and bases that hold each sign in place at its foot.
Quick fit frames, mini frames and sign posts
The mini, plastic and EnduraSign frames and the Urban Sign System post carry smaller sign faces, and the 750mm centre frame is the choice when the job needs a larger face.
Mini quick fit sign frames
The steel mini quick fit sign frames are the everyday frame for smaller temporary signs, standing on two legs with the face held on quick fit fixings at the top. Choose them for crews that set out and lift the same frames day after day and change the face to suit each job.
Mini frame with lowered bottom bar
This version of the steel mini frame carries its bottom bar lower down the legs for added stability. Choose the mini quick fit frame with a lowered bottom bar for exposed positions where signs stand in the wind for the length of the works.
Flat pack mini quick fit frames
The flat pack mini quick fit frames are the steel mini frame supplied for assembly. Choose them when frames are bought in numbers for a depot or yard and built up as jobs come in.
Quick fit frames with 750mm centres
The quick fit frames with 750mm centres carry the larger sign faces in the range. Choose them for works on faster or wider roads, where the traffic management plan calls for signs that drivers read from further back than a mini frame face allows.
Plastic quick fit frames
The moulded plastic quick fit frames take smaller faces in two drilling patterns, so a single stock of frames covers faces bought in either drilling. Choose them where frames are carried from the van to the works by hand and the faces in stock are a mix of both.
EnduraSign QuickFit frames
The EnduraSign QuickFit frame is a plastic frame for smaller faces, made to take its own ballast weight, which locks onto the frame. Choose it when crews want frame and weight as one matched system for signs that stay clear in all weather on roads under traffic management.
Single sign posts on separate bases
The Urban Sign System posts are single posts that hold the sign face directly on anti-luce fixings and stand in a separate base. Choose them as an alternative to steel mini frames for utility and traffic management crews who move signs often and want a post and base that carry and set up separately.
Quick fit sign faces and hole centres
A quick fit face fits a frame only when its pre-drilled holes line up with the frame's fixing centres, so the centres are checked before faces and frames are ordered together. Across the range, those centres run from 300mm to 750mm.
The steel mini frames, in all three versions, and the EnduraSign frame take faces drilled at the smallest centres. The plastic frame takes faces in either of the two smaller drillings, and the larger frames take faces drilled at the widest centres. The road closure and lane closed wicket faces in this range are each listed in both of the smaller drillings, so the version ordered has to match the frames the crew already carries.
Face size also needs a frame of matching width, because a face that overhangs its frame is unsupported at the edges and flexes in the wind, so the frame is chosen for the face size first and the hole centres are confirmed after.
Metal and plastic road sign frames
Steel and plastic frames carry the same kinds of sign, and the choice between them turns on how the signs are moved, stored and kept track of. The steel mini frames are powder coated in red, black, blue, green and yellow, which lets a contractor give each crew, client or contract its own colour and see at a glance whose frames are out on a job or back in the yard.
The flat pack steel frames stack compact for storage and take less room in the van until they are assembled. The plastic quick fit, EnduraSign and Urban Sign System frames are lighter, which suits crews who carry frames from the vehicle and set out a run of signs by hand.
Road sign frame weights and ballast
Each frame type has its own way of being weighted, so the ballast is chosen with the frame.
Road sign frame weights for quick fit frames
The road sign frame weights clip onto any quick fit frame built from 25mm box section and weigh 10kg whether wet or dry, so the ballast does not change with the weather. Made from recycled PVC, they lock into place with no filling or emptying. Steel frames can also be weighted with sandbags laid over the bottom bar.
EnduraSign ballast weights
The EnduraSign ballast weights are made for the EnduraSign QuickFit frame and lock onto it, so frame and weight set out together as one unit.
Stacking bases for sign posts
The Urban Sign System bases are 15kg footplates that carry the Urban Sign System post, with high-visibility plates to reduce trip hazards for people walking past. Where a post needs more weight, a second base stacks on the first, which adds ballast without sandbags around the foot of the post.
Quick fit signs for road closures and site entrances
Road closure and lane closed signs
The plastic quick fit road closure signs warn drivers of a closed road ahead, and the lane closed wicket signs show which lanes are closed, in 2, 3 and 4 lane versions. Both come pre-drilled for quick fit frames. On a public road, use the sign faces the traffic management plan sets. Faces for other messages are in the road and site signs range.
Site entrance signs on temporary fencing
The site entrance sign system puts safety and directional signs at site entrances using the Urban Sign System base and post. Temporary fence panels or gates sit directly in the sign base, so the sign stands on its own foot and adds no wind loading to the fence line. The same system works free-standing away from the entrance, or at any point along the run in place of a rubber fence foot, and it also works with on-ground temporary hoarding. Sign faces are chosen to suit the site and are not included.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A quick fit road sign frame is a free-standing temporary frame with fixings at standard centres, so a pre-drilled sign face can be fitted and changed on site without drilling or brackets. The frame stands on the road, verge or footpath with ballast at its foot and stays in use while the faces change with the works.
No. Frames, posts and bases are listed on their own, and sign faces are bought separately to match the frame's hole centres. HERMEQ lists quick fit road closure and lane closed wicket faces in this range, and faces for other messages sit in the signs range.
An A frame road sign is usually a folding stand with the message printed on or fixed to its own panels, so sign and stand are bought as one. A quick fit frame holds a separate face on standard fixings, so one frame carries any face drilled to match it. A frames suit a single fixed message, and quick fit frames suit crews whose signs change from job to job.
Yes. The frame stays with the crew and the face changes with each job or each stage of the works. Any face drilled to the frame's centres fits it, so a modest stock of frames and a larger stock of faces covers a wide spread of work.
Temporary signing at roadworks is planned and laid out to Chapter 8 of the Department of Transport's Traffic Signs Manual, and works on national roads also follow Transport Infrastructure Ireland requirements. Employers have duties under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, and on construction projects the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations 2013 place duties on the PSDP and PSCS that cover traffic on and around the site.