No dodging on price, no vague answers about your roof. If we do not know something, we say so. If you do not see your question here, call us and we will add it.
The question everybody asks first and almost nobody answers on their website.
Most homes in Castle Rock and Parker run between $800 and $2,500 for the full season. Price is driven by how much of the house you light, the linear footage of roofline, the number of stories, and how steep and reachable the pitches are. Send us your address and we will send back a real number for your house, not a range.
Everything for the whole season. That means custom design for your roofline, commercial-grade lights and clips cut to fit your house, installation, timers set so they come on at dusk, any repairs during the season, takedown in January, and storage until next year. There is no separate takedown bill and no storage fee.
Those low averages are usually labor-only hangs of lights you already own, with no design, no materials, no in-season service, and no takedown or storage. Full-service Colorado installers commonly publish residential ranges of roughly $750 to $2,500. Our $800 minimum covers a complete season with everything in it, which is a different product than somebody hanging your bins for an afternoon.
Yes, footage is the main driver of the price. Denver metro per-foot pricing generally runs in the low single digits, and ours sits in that range. Height, pitch, and access adjust it, because a steep second-story peak takes longer and needs more fall protection than a single-story front roofline.
That depends on what a day on a ladder in December is worth to you. The honest trade is the cost of lights, clips, cords, and storage bins, plus your weekend, plus the fall risk, against a flat price for a finished display you never touch. People who hire it out almost always name ladder height first and money second.
Search this question and you will find roofing companies warning you about it. You will not find many light installers answering it. Here is ours.
No. We never drill your roof. Roofline runs clip onto edges that already exist: plastic shingle tabs that slide under the bottom course, and gutter clips that grip the lip. Nothing is fastened through a shingle or into the roof.
This matters because nail, screw, and staple holes are exactly how melting snow gets under a shingle and into the decking. It shows up as a leak the following spring, long after whoever drilled it is gone.
Decorating does not void a roof warranty. Puncturing the roof can. Shingle manufacturer warranties commonly exclude damage from nails, screws, or staples driven into the roof for anything other than the original installation. Non-penetrating clips leave nothing behind and do not affect the warranty, which is the whole reason we use them.
Shingle tabs slide under the shingle edge, gutter clips hook the lip, and gutter-guard clips grip the guard's front edge. Brick or stucco runs use masonry clips or get re-routed to an edge we can clip. We never drill your roof, and for anything off the roof, we tell you exactly how it attaches before we hang it.
They can if they are installed badly. Light runs or garland laid across the face of the roof block meltwater from draining, and that is how a dam starts. We run the line along the edge instead of across the roof field, and we keep the gutter trough clear. Colorado's swing from sun-baked afternoons to hard overnight freezes makes drainage the thing to get right.
We document it with photos, tell you the same day, and our general liability insurance pays for the repair. Ask any installer what their damage process is before anything goes wrong, and ask for the insurance certificate up front. The operators with no process and no coverage are the ones who stop answering the phone.
Everything comes off. Lights, clips, cords, and timers all leave with us in January. This is worth checking with any installer, because leaving clips up over the summer is a common shortcut, and several Douglas County HOAs specifically require the clips and hooks to come down, not just the strands.
We provide everything. Commercial-grade LED strands, clips, outdoor-rated cords, and timers all come with the job, cut to fit your roofline. You do not buy anything, and you do not end up with more bins in your garage.
Usually no, and it is worth understanding why. Retail strands are fixed lengths that never quite fit a roofline, they are not rated for a Colorado winter on a roof, and we cannot warranty a display built from them or guarantee we can repair it in December. The lights being ours is what lets us promise the rest.
All of it. Roofline is where most people start, but wrapped trunks, bushes, wreaths, garland on columns and railings, and walkway lighting are all part of what we design. The front peaks and a couple of wrapped trees is the upgrade that changes a house the most for the money.
No. Every install includes a timer set to bring the lights on at dusk and off at the hour you pick. You never touch a plug.
Not meaningfully. Modern commercial LED strands draw a small fraction of what old incandescent bulbs did, and they only run a few hours a night for about eight weeks. For a typical display the seasonal cost is in the range of a few dollars, not a noticeable jump in your Xcel bill.
September and October. Installs start in mid-October and most installers are largely booked by late October. Booking early also costs less almost everywhere, because November and Thanksgiving week are peak demand. If you are calling in mid-November, call anyway, but the calendar is tight by then.
Yes, if you book in October. Starlighting is the Saturday before Thanksgiving, when the Star on the Rock is lit to open the Season of the Star, and it is the practical deadline most Douglas County homeowners are working toward. It is also the week the local calendar fills up, so October is when to get on it.
We reschedule, usually within a few days, and we call you before you have to wonder. We do not put a crew on a wet or icy roof, and cold makes wire and clips brittle enough that the install quality suffers. Snow does not end the season, it moves the calendar, which is another reason booking in October leaves room for weather days.
You call or text and we come fix it, at no charge, for the whole season. That promise is the single biggest difference between companies, and it is the one most people find out about the hard way on December 20th. Worth knowing: the large majority of reported outages turn out to be a timer that got unplugged or switched off, so it is often a two-minute fix.
January, weather permitting, and it is included in the price you already paid. Takedowns run from the first week of January through the end of the month, which lines up with the 30-day-after-the-holiday deadline several local HOAs use. We will work around your schedule if you have family in town or want them up a little longer.
Fair question, and the reason it gets asked is that it happens. Abandoned takedowns are one of the most common complaints against seasonal lighting companies, usually from operators who collected in November and moved on. Takedown is part of the price you paid, it is in writing, and we are firefighters here year round, not a seasonal outfit that disappears in February.
We do, labeled for your house. They come back to us in January, get inspected, and go back up next season already cut to your roofline. That is also why year two is a phone call instead of a whole new project.
Front Range wind, Douglas County HOAs, and a March that snows more than December.
Yes, when they are clipped properly. Front Range chinook and downslope gusts regularly hit 50 to 60 miles an hour, which is exactly what tears consumer strands off a gutter. Commercial-grade strands with tight clip spacing on every run are built for it, and in-season repair is included specifically because December wind events happen.
Yes. Outdoor-rated LED strands are sealed and run cool, so snow does not short them and they do not melt and refreeze the way hot incandescent bulbs used to. A heavy snow may mute the look for a day until it slides or melts off.
Temporary holiday lighting is usually the easiest thing to clear. Highlands Ranch Community Association's residential guidelines, for example, state that committee approval is not required for temporary holiday lighting and decorations. Permanent year-round trim lighting is the opposite and generally does need architectural review. Rules vary by sub-association, so your management company's written policy is what governs.
In some Douglas County communities, yes, and it is the rule people get burned by. Highlands Ranch defines holiday lighting appurtenances to include gutter clips and hooks, and requires them removed within 30 days after the holiday. A takedown that leaves hardware behind is not a finished takedown there. We take every clip down with the lights, so nothing is left behind either way.
Not for a temporary display that plugs into an existing exterior outlet. The National Electrical Code allows temporary decorative lighting for up to 90 days, which covers a late October through January season. Adding a new hardwired circuit or a permanently wired system is a different job that does require a licensed electrician and a permit, and we subcontract that to a licensed electrician when it comes up.
Neither, because seasonal lights are in storage for both. Colorado's hail season runs roughly mid-April through mid-September and the Front Range sits in the heart of Hail Alley, and Front Range UV is strong enough to make cheap plastic brittle in a few summers. A seasonal display misses all of it. That is a real advantage over permanent systems, which stay mounted through every hailstorm of the year.
Not for a temporary holiday display. Douglas County's outdoor lighting guidance for single-family homes is voluntary and aimed at permanent fixtures, and it contains no special restriction on seasonal decorations. For most homeowners the binding constraint is the HOA rather than the county, and Castle Pines Village in particular runs tight architectural review on exterior lighting.
No. We measure your rooflines from satellite imagery using your address, and we send back a design of your actual house with the price under it. No appointment, no salesman in your driveway, and you see what it will look like before you commit to anything.
No. We quote from your address and work entirely from the outside. Most of our customers never meet us in person unless they want to. If we need gate access or there is a dog in the yard, we will arrange that with you first.
We carry general liability insurance and will send you a certificate before we start, without being asked twice. Ask every installer you talk to for the same thing. In a trade that is seasonal by nature, the ones who cannot produce a certificate are the ones you read about later.
A small crew we work with every season, not day labor hired in November. We are a firefighter-owned company and working safely at height is what the owner does for a living, which is the standard every install gets held to whether or not he is on that particular ladder.
No. The number in your quote is the number you pay. The pattern to watch for elsewhere is a low quote followed by height fees, pitch fees, or travel surcharges once the ladder is already against the house. If a design change is what you want mid-job, we price it and you approve it before anyone does anything.
Yes, and that is where hiring it out makes the most sense. Steep and high sections take longer and need more fall protection, so they are priced into the original quote rather than added later as a difficulty fee. Anything above roughly a 7/12 pitch is where most homeowners should stop and call somebody.
No. There is no auto-renewal and no cancellation fee. We will reach out in the fall to ask if you want them up again, and if the answer is no, that is the end of it. Worth asking anyone else the same question, because spring renewal invoices for a service someone forgot they had are a documented complaint in this industry.
Yes. Churches, retail centers, senior living communities, HOA common areas, and office buildings. Commercial books earlier than residential and installs in October, so if you are looking at a building rather than a house, call sooner rather than later.
Parker and Castle Rock are our two focus towns. We also install Christmas lights in Castle Pines, Lone Tree, Highlands Ranch, Franktown, Sedalia, and Larkspur, plus the surrounding south Denver metro. If you are just outside that, call anyway. If we are already working near you that week we can usually make it work.
Yes, we install in all three. Parker and Castle Rock are where most of our route sits, so availability in the outer towns depends on what else we have booked nearby that week. Calling in October rather than November makes a real difference if you are outside our two core towns.
Because route density is what keeps the price down. A crew that does six houses on one street gets more done than a crew that drives thirty minutes between jobs, and that efficiency shows up in what we charge. We are not turning work away outside those towns. We are just honest that a job near an existing route is easier for us to schedule.
Not yet, and we would rather say so than sell you something we have not done. Permanent trim lighting is a genuinely good product for some homes and we expect to offer it. If that is what you actually want, tell us and we will let you know when we do.
Send your address and we will send back a design of your house with the price on it. Costs you nothing, and there is no salesman in your driveway.
