A Dark Storefront Looks Closed.
Dallas rewards the businesses that look established. Deep Ellum, Bishop Arts, the Design District, the endless retail along Central Expressway and I-35E — every one of those corridors is a competition for a glance at 50 miles an hour. Our prepared DIY LED sign kits put a welded aluminum cabinet with the LEDs already inside it on your building for a fraction of the installed price.
We cut and weld the frame to your size in our shop and ship it in sections. You bolt it together, mount it, and keep up to 60% depending on your project. The work you are skipping is the markup, not the quality. Nothing about the cabinet changes because you were the one who hung it.
The Kit, And The Price Difference
Shipping To Dallas And Every Town Around It
Kits ship to Plano, Garland, Richardson, Mesquite, Irving, Grand Prairie, Duncanville and DeSoto — and everywhere in between. If FedEx delivers there, your sign kit can too.
Dallas eats after dark and shops after dark. A business with an unlit sign on a busy corridor reads as closed at exactly the hour it most needs to read as open, and no amount of window vinyl fixes that from three lanes over. A lit cabinet solves it and then keeps solving it. Sign codes in this metro change the moment you cross a city line, so confirm the rules for your specific address and get the approved size in writing before we build.
Every prepared kit includes: an aluminum frame cut to your size with welded corners, LEDs mounted inside, and a 12-volt power supply with wiring hardware as listed in your written quote. Sign faces and graphics are available separately through DIY Graphics.
How Your Kit Gets To Dallas
Dallas is well covered by ground delivery, which is why roughly 95% of our kits go FedEx Ground rather than freight. The boxes reach a Deep Ellum storefront, a Northwest Highway retail bay or a Garland shop on the same daily route that already brings your other packages, without a terminal, a dispatcher or a scheduling call in between.
What shows up. A standard cabinet ships as four long boxes. Larger kits go to six, where splice joints keep the frame inside ground shipping limits. The sections come welded to your size with the LEDs mounted inside, and the power supply and mounting hardware are packed in the same boxes — one delivery, and nothing left to arrive later. Open them up and the frame, the LEDs and the hardware are all accounted for.
Delivery day. There is no pallet to break down, no liftgate to pay for and no delivery window to sit on. For a shop on a tight urban lot with two parking spaces out front, that is the difference between a normal Tuesday and a lost afternoon. One person can carry the boxes in and get back to work.
Open the boxes the day they land. Look the sections over even if the cartons look perfect, and do it before install day rather than the morning of. Photograph anything crushed, torn or bent and keep the packaging exactly as it arrived — that is what a carrier claim is built on. Finding a problem the day a box shows up is a phone call; finding it with a crew standing on a ladder is a lost day.
Where to put it. North Texas will run 100 degrees in August and throw an ice storm at you in January, and aluminum takes both without rusting. The LEDs and the power supply are the parts to protect — store those boxes indoors from day one. Hail season is the other reason not to leave anything sitting in the bed of a truck overnight.
Measure Twice. Order Once.
Your kit is cut to a size, welded, and pre-lit before it ships, so the size has to be right the first time. In Dallas that means three phone calls before you order, not after.
1. Ask what you're allowed
Start with the City of Dallas if your address is inside city limits, and with Dallas County if it is not. This metro is a patchwork — Highland Park, University Park, Cockrell Hill, Irving and Garland all run separate sign codes, and being a few blocks off a boundary can change what you are allowed to build. Verify your jurisdiction first. Ask for the maximum sign area and height for your zoning district, whether your sign counts as wall-mounted or freestanding, and what setback applies. Sign area is usually tied to your building frontage, so the answer is specific to your address — not to the block or to the business next door.
2. Ask your landlord
If you're in a plaza or center, the landlord's sign criteria sit on top of the city code and are often stricter. Cabinet depth, face color, letter height and mounting method are all commonly spelled out. Get the criteria sheet in writing before you pick a size — it is cheaper than rebuilding a cabinet that the center won't approve.
3. Ask about engineering and wiring
A freestanding, monument or pole sign in Dallas generally requires structural and foundation drawings sealed by a Texas-licensed engineer. If your sign sits near a state highway right of way, ask whether any TxDOT rules also apply. Lighting is commonly permitted apart from the sign structure itself, so budget for two reviews rather than one. Plan on a licensed electrician for the final hookup and inspection either way. We build the cabinet; the permit, the footing, the disconnect and the sign-off are local work done by local people.
Straight Answers For Dallas Businesses
How big can a single cabinet be before it splices?
Bigger than most people need. Longer frames get splice joints so they break into six boxes instead of four and stay inside ground shipping limits. Genuinely oversized cabinets, pole and pylon projects and multi-sign orders are where freight becomes the exception. Tell us your size and we will tell you which one you are.
Can I mount it myself on a brick storefront?
That is the normal case. The cabinet comes in sections with the mounting hardware packed in, and one person can move the boxes. What matters is that the wall and the fasteners suit the load, so if the building is old or the facade is questionable, have someone qualified look at the mounting surface before you drill.
Is a permit required for a lighted sign in Dallas?
Assume it is. Sign permits generally go through the City of Dallas inside city limits, or the individual suburb if you are in one of them, and an illuminated sign commonly needs its own electrical permit as well. Certain districts and corridors carry extra design review. Get the approved dimensions in writing before ordering, because we weld the cabinet to that size.
What about the electrical work?
Leave the hookup to a licensed electrician. These kits are not UL listed, and the connection to building power is inspected work in Dallas like everywhere else. Assembly, mounting and faces are yours to do. The practical advice is to book the electrician while the kit is still being prepared, so the sign is not finished and dark for two weeks.
Ready to get your written quote?
Every kit is prepared to order. Tell us about your project and we'll answer with a straight, written quote.
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