One Kit. Three States.
Getting a sign to your door in Memphis is the easy part. Our DIY LED sign cabinets ship to the whole Mid-South tri-state corner, built to your size with the lighting already inside — and most go FedEx Ground rather than freight, because the sections are cut to fit inside ground shipping limits.
From Beale Street glow to a shop out on Summer Avenue, Memphis knows a good lit sign. Build yours the DIY way: welded aluminum frame, edge-mounted LEDs, 12-volt power supply in the box, and honest guidance from a sign builder whenever you need it.
The Kit, And The Price Difference
Shipping To Memphis And Every Town Around It
Kits ship to Bartlett, Collierville, Germantown, Millington, Southaven and Olive Branch in Mississippi, and West Memphis over the river in Arkansas — and everywhere in between. If FedEx delivers there, your sign kit can too.
The Memphis metro spills into Mississippi and Arkansas, and we ship to all of it. Sign permits differ on every side of the line — check your local rules, then tell us your size and we build to fit. Nationwide shipping means state lines don't matter to your kit.
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 Memphis
Memphis is FedEx's home town, and about 95% of our kits ship FedEx Ground — so of all the places to have a sign kit delivered, this is a good one. It arrives in boxes on an ordinary ground route, not on a freight truck.
What shows up. Four long boxes for a standard cabinet, six where splice joints are used on a longer one. The frame sections come cut to length with the LEDs already mounted inside, and the power supply and mounting hardware are packed in with them, so the whole kit lands in one shipment. Keeping the sections spliceable is exactly what keeps the packages inside ground limits.
Delivery day. No dock required, which matters on a Summer Avenue shop or a Broad Avenue storefront where there was never going to be one. The driver leaves the boxes and one person can move them inside.
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. Memphis humidity is the thing to plan around. Aluminum is happy outdoors indefinitely, but the LED sections and the power supply are in those same boxes and should not sweat through a July week on a back step. Bring them in the day they land.
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 Memphis that means three phone calls before you order, not after.
1. Ask what you're allowed
Memphis and Shelby County run construction code enforcement jointly, so one office covers a lot of ground inside the county — but the metro crosses two state lines. Southaven and Olive Branch answer to Mississippi rules and West Memphis to Arkansas, so confirm which state and which city you are in before you ask anything else. 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
Tennessee sets a statewide building code with local enforcement, and a freestanding or pole sign commonly needs a footing design and drawings sealed by a licensed engineer. An illuminated sign generally needs an electrical permit in addition to the sign permit — and if you are across a state line, that second state's rules apply instead. 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 Memphis Businesses
How fast does a kit arrive in Memphis?
Kits are prepared to order, and most ship FedEx Ground once they are built — normal ground transit, no freight terminal in the middle. Your written quote covers the details.
Are these kits UL listed?
No — a DIY kit can't be UL listed. Check with your local township and follow all sign, zoning, electrical and inspection guidelines before ordering.
Do sign rules change across the Memphis state lines?
They change completely. Memphis and Shelby County share construction code enforcement, but Southaven and Olive Branch fall under Mississippi and West Memphis under Arkansas, each with its own permit process, size limits and inspection requirements. Confirm which jurisdiction your address is actually in before you order — the cabinet is welded to the size you give us.
Who should do the electrical hookup?
A licensed electrician, on every side of every state line here. You can absolutely bolt the cabinet together and mount it yourself; that is where the money is saved. Bringing power to it is licensed, inspected work, and these kits are not UL listed — so that step belongs to a trade, whichever state you are in.
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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