Built For A Wide Street.
Salt Lake City is laid out on a grid that counts outward from Temple Square, which is why addresses here read like coordinates. It also means long blocks and unusually wide streets, and a sign that has to hold up at distance rather than at the curb. Our prepared DIY LED sign kits ship all over Salt Lake County with the lighting already mounted inside the welded frame.
You are paying Wasatch Front rent and a Wasatch Front payroll. A full-service sign quote on top of that is a lot to swallow for something you could bolt together yourself over a weekend. We weld the cabinet to your size, wire the LEDs in, and ship it in sections, so you keep up to 60% depending on your project.
The Kit, And The Price Difference
Shipping To Salt Lake City And Every Town Around It
Kits ship to South Salt Lake, Millcreek, Murray, West Valley City, Taylorsville, Holladay, Sandy and West Jordan — and everywhere in between. If FedEx delivers there, your sign kit can too.
The streets downtown are famously wide and the blocks are long. A sign that works in a tight eastern downtown can disappear here, because drivers are further away and moving faster by the time they get around to reading it. That is an argument for sizing the cabinet honestly up front instead of shaving it down to save a little aluminum. Check the sign code that applies to your parcel before you settle on a number, then get the approved size in writing — we weld to it exactly, and there is no adjusting it later.
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 Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City is where I-15 and I-80 cross, and freight moves through this valley around the clock. That is exactly why we keep your sign out of it. Roughly 95% of our kits ship FedEx Ground, on the same route that already brings packages to a Sugar House storefront or a shop on State Street. No terminal to call, no pallet sitting on a dock somewhere else in the valley.
What shows up. Standard cabinets break into four long boxes, and the bigger ones into six with splice joints put in on purpose so nothing exceeds ground shipping limits. Every section is welded to your dimensions with the LEDs already in place. The power supply and the mounting hardware travel in the same boxes, so there is no second shipment to track and nothing missing when you finally get around to starting.
Delivery day. A Sugar House storefront or an older building on 200 South does not have a loading dock, and the alley behind it is not where you want a pallet jack working. None of that is needed. No liftgate, no appointment, no window to wait out. One person moves the boxes from the curb to inside, and the install starts whenever your schedule says so.
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 handles a dry valley summer and a Wasatch winter without rusting. The electronics are the part worth thinking about. Sitting above four thousand feet, the sun here is harder on cardboard and plastic than most people expect, and a winter inversion parks damp, cold air in the valley for days at a stretch. Keep the LEDs and the power supply indoors until the day you install.
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 Salt Lake City that means three phone calls before you order, not after.
1. Ask what you're allowed
Start with Salt Lake City's building services counter if your address is inside city limits. Plenty of what people call Salt Lake is not — South Salt Lake, Millcreek, Holladay and unincorporated Salt Lake County all run their own permitting, and the boundaries are not obvious from the street. Find out whose jurisdiction you are actually standing in before you order anything. 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
Utah is seismic country and the building code here takes that seriously. A freestanding, monument or pole sign generally needs drawings and a footing design stamped by an engineer licensed in Utah, with wind and seismic both addressed. An illuminated cabinet usually needs an electrical permit in addition to the sign permit. Assume you need both and let the counter tell you otherwise. 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 Salt Lake City Businesses
Do you ship anywhere along the Wasatch Front?
Yes. Salt Lake City, the rest of Salt Lake County, and up and down I-15 in either direction. Roughly 95% of kits go FedEx Ground, so anywhere a normal delivery truck runs, the boxes can go. Freight is the exception, and it is mostly reserved for pole projects and for cabinets too long to splice down into ground-legal sections.
How exact does my size need to be?
Exact. The cabinet is welded to the dimensions you give us and there is no trimming it on site. That is why we push people to get their approved size in writing from whoever reviews the sign before they order anything. Once that number is confirmed, send it over and the frame gets built to it and nothing else.
Do I need a permit for an illuminated sign in Salt Lake City?
Assume you do. Sign permits inside city limits generally go through Salt Lake City, and an illuminated cabinet commonly needs an electrical permit on top of the sign permit. If your address turns out to sit in South Salt Lake, Millcreek, Holladay or unincorporated Salt Lake County, the review belongs to somebody else entirely. Confirm the jurisdiction first, then confirm the size.
Who wires the sign up?
A licensed electrician does the hookup. The kits are not UL listed and the connection is permitted, inspected work in Utah, so it is not the place to save money. What is yours is the assembly — bolting the welded sections square, getting the cabinet mounted level, setting the faces. Book the electrician early rather than after the frame is already hanging.
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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