Winter Dark Comes Early Here.
Kennesaw grew out of a railroad stop and turned into a Cobb County suburb with a university sitting in the middle of it. Cobb Parkway, Barrett Parkway and the I-75 exits carry the commercial traffic, and most of that traffic belongs to people who live within fifteen minutes. Our prepared DIY LED sign kits ship to those addresses with the LEDs already mounted in the welded frame.
Repeat customers are what make a suburb like this work, and repeat customers still have to find you the first time. A lit cabinet handles that on a dark December afternoon at five. We cut and weld to your size, ship it in sections you can carry, and you keep up to 60% depending on your project.
The Kit, And The Price Difference
Shipping To Kennesaw And Every Town Around It
Kits ship to Acworth, Marietta, Woodstock, Powder Springs, Smyrna, Canton and Dallas — and everywhere in between. If FedEx delivers there, your sign kit can too.
Georgia loses the light earlier in the year than people expect, and a north Cobb business closing at seven spends months of that shift in the dark. An unlit sign is just paint at that hour. A lit cabinet keeps working through the whole commute home on Cobb Parkway and Barrett. Kennesaw and Cobb County both regulate signage depending on where you sit, so confirm your reviewing office 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 Kennesaw
Getting a kit to Kennesaw takes no coordination at all. Roughly 95% of what we ship goes FedEx Ground rather than freight, and ground already runs every retail center off Barrett Parkway and every flex building on the county roads behind them. There is no dock to schedule, no terminal to call, and no carrier deciding which day it feels like coming out your way.
What shows up. A standard cabinet ships as four long welded sections. Bigger frames go to six, with splice joints put in specifically so the package dimensions stay inside ground limits. The LEDs are already mounted in the sections when they leave, and the power supply and mounting hardware are packed in the same boxes as quoted — one shipment, rather than a frame now and parts later.
Delivery day. No appointment, no liftgate, no pallet sitting in the parking lot. If you are in a shared center off Cobb Parkway, it also means no argument with the neighbors about a truck parked across three spaces. One person carries the boxes in, and the kit waits inside until you have a Saturday and a helper lined up.
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 Georgia gives you humid summers, a handful of genuinely cold nights and the occasional ice event. Aluminum does not rust and does not care about any of it. The LEDs and the power supply do care — keep those boxes indoors and dry until you are ready to mount, rather than leaving them in an unheated shed through a freeze.
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 Kennesaw that means three phone calls before you order, not after.
1. Ask what you're allowed
Start with the City of Kennesaw if your address is inside the city limits and Cobb County if it is not — and around Kennesaw those two interlock closely enough that it is worth checking rather than assuming. Acworth, Marietta and the Cherokee County line are all close by, and each of them runs its own sign ordinance. 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
Do not carry Florida assumptions across the state line; Georgia handles sign engineering its own way. Freestanding and pole signs commonly require a footing detail and, depending on size and on the reviewing office, drawings prepared by a Georgia-licensed engineer. Illuminated signs generally need electrical permitting handled separately from the sign permit. Ask what your office wants before you order. 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 Kennesaw Businesses
Will a kit work on a monument base we already have?
Usually, as long as you can give us the exact opening it has to fill. The cabinet is welded to the dimensions you provide, so an existing base or an existing pole is fine — the measurement just has to be right the first time, because there is no trimming a welded frame down afterward. Measure it, write it down and send it with your quote request.
What is not in the box?
Faces and printed graphics, which are a separate product on our DIY Graphics page, and everything on the electrical side past the included power supply. The kit itself is the welded aluminum cabinet, the LEDs already mounted inside it, the power supply as quoted and the mounting hardware. Installation and wiring are yours to arrange.
Do I need a permit for a lighted sign in Kennesaw?
Plan on it. Sign permits in this area generally go through the City of Kennesaw for in-city addresses and Cobb County for unincorporated ones, and a lighted sign commonly adds an electrical permit on top. Some commercial corridors also carry appearance or overlay standards that limit size and style beyond the base ordinance. Confirm before you order, because the cabinet is welded to your approved size.
Can I run the power myself?
No. Hire a licensed electrician. These kits are not UL listed, so the hookup is permitted and inspected work rather than a homeowner-style job, and an inspector here will want it done by somebody who can sign for it. You handle the mounting, the squaring and the faces. Put the electrician in the budget right next to the permit.
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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