Christmas Light Installation Cost per Foot in Vermont
Christmas light installation cost per foot tells you less than it seems to, because it depends on what the foot includes. Here is what ours includes, and how we price a Vermont roofline.
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What a foot of Christmas lights includes
Search for a per-foot price and you get a spread of numbers from national blogs, and many of them describe one thing: paying someone to hang lights you already own. Some include the lights, some do not. Few mention taking them down, and fewer mention storing them.
Our price includes all of it. A design for your house, lights measured and cut to your roofline in the colors you choose, installation, maintenance for as long as the lights are up, takedown in January, and storage until next November. The lights are leased, not sold, which is why the rest is included.
So before you compare two per-foot numbers, ask what each foot buys. A cheaper foot that leaves you owning, storing and replacing a set of retail strands is a different product.
How leasing works
How much to install 200 feet of Christmas lights
Two hundred feet of roofline is a common figure people ask about, so here is how to think about it.
We cannot give a fair 200-foot number without seeing the house, because length is only one of the six things in the price. What we can say is that a full season with us starts at $700, and that covers the design, the lights, installation, maintenance, takedown and storage.
To get a rough length for your own house, walk the outside and pace the eaves you would want lit. A pace is about three feet for most adults. Add the peaks and gables you want outlined, since those run up and down rather than along. Two-story homes have more roofline than the footprint suggests, and the upper eaves take longer to reach, which is where the per-foot price starts to move.
What moves the price
Feet of light line
How much material it takes to cover what you want lit.
Access
How easy the roofline is to reach.
Roof type
Standing seam is common in Vermont and needs a different attachment.
Christmas lights on a metal roofWhere the outlets are
Lights far from power take more work to run.
How many lights you want
The front roofline only, or the whole house.
Extras
Wreaths, lights in trees and anything else beyond the roofline.
How we price a roofline
We do not quote by the foot. The feet of light line your house needs is one input, alongside access, roof type, where the outlets are, how many lights you want, and extras like wreaths or lights in trees. Every house gets its own number, and a full season starts at $700.
For the full-season number and what it covers, see what Christmas light installation costs in Vermont.
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Pay for Your Lights Over Time
You don't have to pay for the season all at once. We offer financing through Wisetack, and if you pay it off in 3 months or less, there's no interest.
Longer terms are available at a slightly higher cost. Checking whether you prequalify doesn't involve a hard credit pull.
See if you prequalifyFinancing through Wisetack is subject to credit approval. Terms vary.
How much should you pay someone to put up Christmas lights?
Enough that they come back. A crew that quotes the lowest per-foot number and does not answer the phone in December when a section goes dark has not saved you anything. The questions worth asking before you compare prices: are the lights cut to fit the house, who owns them when the season ends, who comes out if something fails, and is takedown included.
Who hangs Christmas lights in Vermont, and what to ask themDo Christmas lights raise your electric bill?
It depends on the bulb. An incandescent C9 draws about 7 watts, so 100 of them pull around 700 watts every evening they are on. The same run in LED draws a small fraction of that. Ask any installer which kind they use.
C7 vs C9, and LED vs incandescentThinking about permanent lights instead?
Permanent lights are bought, not leased, so they are priced as one install rather than a season.
What permanent Christmas lights cost, and when they are worth it
Questions about cost per foot
It depends on the installer. Some per-foot prices cover only the labor to hang lights you already own, so ask before you compare. Our price covers the design, lights cut to your roofline, installation, maintenance for the season, takedown in January and storage until next year.
No. Where an installer does quote by the foot, it is a way of working out the total, and the total is what you pay. We do not quote by the foot at all: the price comes from the feet of light line, access, roof type, outlet locations, how many lights you want and any extras, starting at $700 for the season.
Yes. Takedown happens in January on a date agreed with you, and the lights are stored with us until next season. Neither one is an add-on.
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