Every year around the first week of December, we get calls from homeowners in Novi, Northville, and Bloomfield Hills asking if we can still fit them in. Sometimes we can. Often the schedule is full. If you want professional holiday lighting on your home this season, the short answer on timing is this: book in September or October, and expect installs to run from right after Halloween through Thanksgiving. Here is how the season works and what it costs.
Why the calendar fills so fast
Holiday lighting is a short season with a hard deadline. Everyone wants their lights up before Thanksgiving weekend and down after New Year's, and a crew can only be on so many rooflines in that window. Add Michigan weather, which can take days off the schedule with an early ice storm, and the good dates go early. Homeowners who book in early fall get first pick. Homeowners who call in December get whatever is left.
What professional holiday light installation costs
Most residential installs in the Lakes Area run roughly a few hundred dollars for a simple roofline on a ranch to around fifteen hundred dollars for a larger two-story home with rooflines, gutters, and a few wrapped trees or shrubs. Bigger homes in Bloomfield Hills or West Bloomfield with long rooflines, columns, and multiple tree wraps run higher, and commercial storefronts are scoped individually. The price depends on roofline length, how many trees and shrubs get wrapped, and light density. You get a fixed written price after a free on-site measure.
What should be included
- —A custom-measured layout for your actual roofline, not a generic kit.
- —Commercial-grade, cold-rated lights and sealed, locking connectors so the strand does not go dark in a January thaw.
- —No-damage clips. Nothing stapled, nailed, or screwed into your shingles, gutters, or trim.
- —A mid-season check and full takedown after the holidays.
- —Optional labeled storage so next year starts from what already fit.
Why not just do it yourself?
You can, and plenty of people do. The reasons homeowners hire it out are the ones you would guess: a two-story roofline in December is icy, ladders are where the injuries happen, and box-store lights stapled to the fascia tend to fail mid-season and leave holes behind. A trained, insured crew on the right equipment, with product built for sub-zero Michigan temperatures, is what you are paying for. CLIPA certification is the industry standard behind how our crew installs.
Permanent lighting: install once, control from your phone
If you like the look but not the annual scramble, permanent architectural lighting is worth a look. It is a fixed LED channel system mounted once along the roofline and controlled from an app. Run warm white year-round for curb appeal, switch to red and green for the holidays, school colors for game day, or any color for a party, with no ladder trips ever again. The up-front cost is higher than a seasonal install, but there is no yearly install and takedown fee, and the system stays up through every Michigan winter.
Want lights on your home or business in Walled Lake, Commerce, Novi, or anywhere in Oakland County this season? Call now while the calendar is open, and we will come out for a free measure and a fixed written price.