Prepared Kits, River Valley Tough.
Little Rock anchors central Arkansas — a river city ringed by growing towns where small business is the whole ballgame. Our prepared DIY LED sign kits ship to the entire metro, welded in our shop and pre-lit before they ever hit the truck.
Whether it's a storefront on Main or a pole sign out toward Conway, the math is the same: build it yourself with a prepared kit and keep up to 60% of what full-service retail would have charged, depending on your project.
The Kit, And The Price Difference
Shipping To Little Rock And Every Town Around It
Kits ship to North Little Rock, Conway, Benton, Bryant, Sherwood, Jacksonville and Cabot — and everywhere in between. If FedEx delivers there, your sign kit can too.
Arkansas heat, storms, and humidity are hard on cheap signs. Aluminum doesn't rust and welded corners don't work loose. It's a cabinet built to outlast the weather — and because you install it, it's priced for a small-business budget.
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 Little Rock
No freight terminal, no pallet, no appointment. About 95% of our kits ship FedEx Ground, so a central Arkansas delivery looks like any other package delivery — and that holds for North Little Rock, Conway, Benton, Bryant and Sherwood just the same.
What shows up. Long boxes. The frame is cut into four sections with the LEDs already installed inside them, or six sections joined with splices on a larger cabinet, sized so nothing exceeds ground shipping limits. The power supply and hardware come in with them, in the same delivery.
Delivery day. This is the part that saves a small shop real money and aggravation. There is no dock to have, no liftgate to pay for and nothing to schedule your day around — the boxes get left, and one person can carry them in.
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. Arkansas storms come up fast, so do not let boxes sit out on the walk. The aluminum would not care; the power supply and LED sections in the same cartons would. Inside and off wet ground until assembly day.
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 Little Rock that means three phone calls before you order, not after.
1. Ask what you're allowed
Start with City of Little Rock planning and development if you are inside city limits, or Pulaski County for unincorporated addresses. North Little Rock, Conway, Benton, Bryant and Sherwood are separate cities with their own sign codes, so check the city on your actual mailing address rather than assuming the metro shares one rulebook. 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
Arkansas enforces a statewide code through local building departments, and a freestanding or pole sign commonly needs a footing design and drawings sealed by an Arkansas-licensed engineer. An illuminated sign generally needs an electrical permit in addition to 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 Little Rock Businesses
Can I see the pricing before I commit?
Every kit is quoted in writing to your exact size — no games. Our Sign Kits page shows per-foot frame pricing to get you in the ballpark.
Do you help me figure out what size I need?
Yes — tell us where the sign is going and what's around it, and you'll get honest guidance from the guy who builds the kits.
Do I need a sign permit in Little Rock?
Assume yes. Little Rock issues sign permits through planning and development, and North Little Rock, Conway, Benton and Sherwood each run their own process. Sign area is usually tied to your building frontage and zoning district, so the number is specific to your address. Get it in writing before you order — the cabinet is welded to the size you give us.
Who should do the electrical hookup?
A licensed electrician handles that. You do the parts that cost money at a sign shop — assembly, mounting, alignment. Tying into building power is licensed and inspected, and these kits are not UL listed, so budget the trade in alongside your permit rather than hoping to skip it.
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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