Two States. One Sign Kit.
Kansas City sits at the crossroads of America — I-70 meets I-35 — and our prepared DIY LED sign kits ship straight into it. Most go out FedEx Ground rather than freight, because the frame is cut into sections sized to fit inside standard ground shipping limits.
From a barbecue joint in the Crossroads to a shop out on Independence Avenue, a lighted sign is how KC customers find you after dark. We build the kit — frame cut to your size, LEDs mounted inside, power supply in the box — and you put it up and keep the savings.
The Kit, And The Price Difference
Shipping To Kansas City And Every Town Around It
Kits ship to Independence, Lee's Summit, Blue Springs, Liberty, Raytown, Grandview and Belton on the Missouri side — plus Overland Park, Olathe and Shawnee across the state line — and everywhere in between. If FedEx delivers there, your sign kit can too.
The KC metro straddles Missouri and Kansas, and sign rules change from suburb to suburb. That's one more reason the DIY route wins here: your kit is cut to the size YOUR city allows. Check with your local township, tell us the numbers, and we build to fit.
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 Kansas City
Your kit does not come on a truck you have to meet. Roughly 95% of what we ship goes out FedEx Ground, in boxes, to whatever address you give us — and in a metro split down the middle by State Line Road, that is worth something. Missouri side or Kansas side, the delivery is identical.
What shows up. Long boxes, not a pallet. The frame comes cut into four sections with the LEDs already mounted inside them — larger cabinets go to six sections with splice joints — and the power supply and mounting hardware are packed in with them. That splice design is the whole point: it keeps every package inside standard ground shipping limits. One person can move the boxes.
Delivery day. It arrives the way anything else you order arrives. FedEx already runs your street, so there is no delivery window to negotiate, no appointment to set and nothing to unload. If nobody is at the shop during the day, send it to your house instead — the boxes fit in a garage.
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. Kansas City swings from July heat to January ice and neither bothers aluminum. The LEDs and the power supply are what want to stay dry, and they ride in the same boxes as the frame, so bring the whole thing inside rather than leaving it on a step 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 Kansas City that means three phone calls before you order, not after.
1. Ask what you're allowed
Which counter you call depends on which side of State Line Road you are on. Kansas City, Missouri handles its own sign permits through city development services; Independence, Lee's Summit, Blue Springs, Liberty and the Kansas-side suburbs each run their own sign code with their own numbers. 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
Missouri has no statewide commercial building code — your city adopts its own, so wind-load and drawing requirements are genuinely local here. A freestanding or pole sign commonly needs a footing design and drawings sealed by a Missouri-licensed engineer, and a lighted sign usually needs an electrical permit on top of the sign permit. 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 Kansas City Businesses
How does a big sign ship to Kansas City?
In boxes, not on a pallet. Kits ship in four sections — larger kits use six with splice joints — cut so the packages stay inside FedEx Ground limits. Roughly 95% of kits go out ground, straight to your door or job site.
Do I need sign experience to assemble it?
No. The kit arrives prepared with LEDs mounted inside the frame, and real guidance is part of the deal.
Do I need a sign permit in the Kansas City metro?
Assume yes, and ask early. Every municipality in the metro writes its own sign code, and a sign that is legal in Overland Park may be over the limit in Kansas City, Missouri. Get your maximum sign area and height in writing from your own city before you order, because the cabinet is welded to the size you give us.
Who should do the electrical hookup?
A licensed electrician. Bolting the cabinet together and getting it on the wall is the part you keep — that is where the savings live. The hookup is not: tying a lighted sign into building power is licensed, inspected work, and these kits are not UL listed. Put the electrician in your budget next to the permit fee.
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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