Local Guides & Sign Maintenance
Two things decide whether a sign in Guanacaste is still doing its job in five years: buying the right one for the town it stands in, and looking after it once it is up. This topic collects both — the local buying guides for Guanacaste and Tamarindo, and the maintenance guide for signs living in a tropical climate.
The local guides exist because the province is not uniform. Tamarindo is a dense, walkable tourist town where a facade competes at night with a dozen others; the wider Guanacaste corridor is read at road speed, from a car. Salt air reaches some streets and not others. The sign that is right for a surf shop on a beach block is not the one that works for a hardware store on the highway, and the guides walk through sizing, lighting and material for each.
Maintenance is the half most owners skip. In this climate a sign is under constant attack: ultraviolet light fades unprotected faces, humidity finds any unsealed electrical joint, salt corrodes untreated hardware, and the rainy season tests all three at once. It is gradual, and the sign looks tired long before it fails. The maintenance guide covers what to inspect and how often, what a cleaning routine should and should not use, and which small repairs prevent the expensive ones.
