Small City Hall, Real Advantage.
Mounds View does a lot of work for its size. It sits between I-35W and Highway 10 north of St. Paul, with corporate campus space, light industrial buildings and a run of local businesses along County Road 10 carrying the traffic between them. Our prepared DIY LED sign kits ship to all of it, cut and welded to your size with the LEDs already mounted inside the frame.
A full-service quote out here costs about what it costs downtown, because the crew still has to drive. Skip the crew instead. You bolt the sections together, hang the cabinet and set the faces, and depending on your project up to 60% stays where it started.
The Kit, And The Price Difference
Shipping To Mounds View And Every Town Around It
Kits ship to New Brighton, Shoreview, Blaine, Spring Lake Park, Arden Hills, Fridley and Roseville — and everywhere in between. If FedEx delivers there, your sign kit can too.
In a city this size you can usually get an actual person on the phone at city hall and a straight answer about what is allowed at your specific address. That is worth more than it sounds, because the cabinet is welded to one size and one size only and cannot be trimmed after the fact. Every city in this stretch of Ramsey County writes its own sign code, so ask Mounds View what it will approve, get the dimensions in writing, then send us the numbers and we build to them.
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 Mounds View
North metro addresses sit on dense daily parcel routes, and that is all this needs to work. Roughly 95% of our kits move FedEx Ground rather than freight, so nothing gets scheduled, quoted or dispatched separately. Your boxes ride in with the rest of the day's deliveries whether you are in a County Road 10 storefront or a suite in one of the business parks off the interstate.
What shows up. Four long boxes hold a standard cabinet. Six handle a larger one, where splice joints keep each package inside ground shipping limits. The welded sections arrive cut to your size with the LEDs already fitted inside them, and the 12-volt power supply and mounting hardware are boxed in with the frame as quoted. It arrives as one shipment, so nothing is sitting on a truck somewhere while you wait to start.
Delivery day. A lot of tenants here share a building entrance and have no claim on the dock even when the building has one. It does not matter. No liftgate, no pallet, no delivery appointment to build your afternoon around. One person moves the boxes from the entry to wherever you are going to assemble, and the whole thing is done in a few minutes.
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. Aluminum does not rust and genuinely does not care what the thermometer says. You will care. There is no good reason to be squaring up a frame outdoors in a February cold snap, so assemble the sections indoors where you can work properly, and keep the LED and power supply boxes in heated space right up until the day the cabinet actually goes on the wall or the poles.
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 Mounds View that means three phone calls before you order, not after.
1. Ask what you're allowed
Start with the City of Mounds View. In this part of the metro nearly everything is inside an incorporated city, so Ramsey County is rarely the office that issues your sign permit — your city hall is the real first call. New Brighton, Shoreview and Spring Lake Park each run their own code, and Blaine sits in Anoka County entirely, which is another government again. 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
Minnesota enforces a statewide building code through local jurisdictions, and frost depth here is deep enough that a freestanding or pylon sign commonly needs an engineered footing rather than a rule of thumb. Structural drawings with a Minnesota-licensed engineer's seal are commonly asked for on anything tall. Expect an illuminated cabinet to need its own 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 Mounds View Businesses
Can I install a sign here in the winter?
People do, but be honest about the footing. If your sign is freestanding and needs a poured base, frost depth in Minnesota makes winter excavation expensive and slow, and it may be worth waiting. A wall-mounted cabinet is a different story and goes up any month. Either way, assemble the sections indoors and only take the finished cabinet outside.
What exactly is in the boxes?
Welded aluminum frame sections cut to your dimensions, with the LEDs already mounted inside them, plus the 12-volt power supply as quoted and the mounting hardware packed in the same shipment. Four boxes for a standard cabinet, six on larger kits with splice joints. Faces and printed graphics are not in there — those are a separate product on our DIY Graphics page.
Do I need a permit for a lighted sign in Mounds View?
Assume yes. Sign permits in this area are generally handled by your own city rather than by Ramsey County, so the City of Mounds View is where to start, and a lighted cabinet commonly needs a separate electrical permit as well. Ask about maximum size, height and setback for your zoning, and get the approved dimensions in writing before you order anything from us.
Who should do the electrical hookup?
That step belongs to a licensed electrician. These kits are not UL listed, so the connection is inspected work and Minnesota is particular about who performs it — your electrician will also know whether the electrical permit runs through the city or the state, which varies. You handle the frame, the mount and the faces, and hand off at the wire.
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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