The I-71 Corridor Never Stops Building.
Mason and Warren County sit in the middle of Cincinnati's busiest growth corridor — the I-71 stretch where new medical offices, restaurants and retail centers open year after year. Our prepared DIY LED sign kits ship to the whole corridor with LEDs mounted inside the frame before the truck ever arrives.
Between Kings Island traffic and the daily I-71 commute, storefronts here get seen — if they're lit. We build the cabinet to your size in our shop; you hang it and pocket the difference, up to 60% depending on the project.
The Kit, And The Price Difference
Shipping To Mason And Every Town Around It
Kits ship to West Chester, Liberty Township, Lebanon, Loveland, Landen, Maineville and up to South Lebanon — and everywhere in between. If FedEx delivers there, your sign kit can too.
Warren County has been one of Ohio's fastest-growing counties for two decades. New plazas mean landlord sign criteria and township rules — send us both with your quote request and your cabinet arrives cut to spec, ready to bolt together.
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 Mason
Roughly 95% of what we ship goes FedEx Ground. Along the I-71 corridor that means a new medical suite in Mason, an older storefront in Lebanon and a house in Deerfield Township are all the same delivery — boxes, ordinary route, no truck to meet.
What shows up. Four long boxes for a standard cabinet, six when splice joints are used to keep a longer frame inside ground shipping limits. The sections arrive with the LEDs already mounted inside, and the power supply and hardware are packed in with them, so the whole kit lands at once.
Delivery day. Worth checking one thing: make sure the name on the delivery matches whoever is actually there to receive it. A brand-new building with nobody in it yet is a bad address for boxes — send them home or to your contractor and move them on install day.
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. The freeze-thaw cycle here does not touch the aluminum, but the LEDs and the power supply are in the same cartons. Keep the boxes inside, and let cold hardware warm up before assembling in an unheated garage.
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 Mason that means three phone calls before you order, not after.
1. Ask what you're allowed
Start with the City of Mason if you are inside city limits, or Warren County for the townships — Deerfield Township, Liberty Township and the unincorporated corridor are county territory. West Chester, Lebanon and Loveland each run their own sign code, and Loveland straddles three counties. 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
Your plan reviewer is whichever certified local department covers your address, working from Ohio's statewide code. Expect plan approval on a larger sign, sealed footing drawings from an Ohio-registered engineer on anything freestanding, and a separate electrical permit for the lighting. 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 Mason Businesses
Can the kit be double-sided for a road sign?
Yes — the same frame supports single- or double-sided configurations, a common choice along Mason's busy corridors.
Are faces included?
No — faces and graphics are quoted separately. See our DIY Graphics page for HD printed faces sized to your new cabinet.
City of Mason or Warren County — who do I call?
Whichever your address actually sits in, and along the I-71 corridor that is not always obvious. Inside city limits it is Mason; Deerfield and Liberty townships and the unincorporated stretches are Warren County; West Chester, Lebanon and Loveland are separate again. Confirm the counter first, then get your maximum sign area in writing before the cabinet is cut.
Who should do the electrical hookup?
A licensed electrician takes the hookup. Assembling and hanging the cabinet is work you or your contractor can do in an afternoon. Tying it into building power is licensed and inspected, and these kits are not UL listed, so that connection is a trade job by design.
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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