Christmas Light Installation

[SpitFire40]

Anyone use a company before? Or can anyone recommend a company? One that supplies the lights as part of it aswell.

I see signs on the side of the road but can never catch the numbers...

Anyone do this before? If so how much did it cost you?

[greyshep]

Cmon, strap on the old winter gear and get on that ladder yourself!

Nothing like risking life and limb to get the Christmas lights up!

(I slid off my roof a few years ago doing this)

Managed to get mine up in dry conditions last weekend.

[shoestring]

Have you got a $8000 solar panel hooked up to those
$ 59.99 lights ,you anti Kyoto global warmer.

I can do the whole job for $ 15000 flat. Anybody else?
Another 10 g's and I will hook it up to your hotwater heater, so you can actually use your energy .
Prices subject to market irregularities at the companies discretion.


Sorry Jordan I have no idea what those guys charge,

I'm irked at the two houses across the street that haven't turned off there outdoor porch lights for two weeks.

Bulbs need a program to turn off. Anybody got a program like that to fit into a edison light bulb.
Tesla probably did that invention,too. Google him.

I wonder how much technology and our power system would have been different if Tesla had received the funding?


But I get it,Christmas is for the kids, half the people that; walk to work and share a car, on my block; turn on there lights, for the last generation of tube kids.
L.e.d.'s can't come quick enough.
Go to lightupmylife.com for the best charity in the world.
Other than your closest one,of course. SA right? What? .

Sorry Spitfire40, I am not attacking you.
Walk down your street till you come to a lighted neighbour or one of those little signs .

Across my street ,a little farther down from the porch lights, a owner did his back yard.
Do you want me to ask him? They were there for two days.
No deaths. Boost your insurance, Hey, same deal as above.

I am too caustic, sorry didn't mean to derail your thread.


What kind of place are you decorating. how splashy.
Can you leave them in place. How high. Trees. ?
Those are the questions I would ask if I owned a xmas light company. And your cost would rise accordingly.

They pay their laborers 14 an hour if the want ads are any indication. So a hundred and fifty for two hours. 3 people and estimator/management/owner.
Lights and truck,insurance on both ,cheap for them but ongoing,50 bucks.
Profit 100 dollars depending on the competition.

So you can probably do a bungalow front for $ 300.00.
Boom town Calgary. $500.00
Maybe they built in effeciencies.

Do it yourself,make a statement.

[SpitFire40]

That made no sense at all. Or maybe i'm just fading and need sleep...

[shoestring]

Originally Posted by SpitFire40

That made no sense at all. Or maybe i'm just fading and need sleep...

Sorry didn't mean to keep you up.

For anybody that can make sense of my whimisical doodles there are several viable business ideas in my wanderings that just need a motivated individual to carry them out.
PM me we can whip up your future.

[MacDougalbry]

Whoah, man, put down the crack pipe and go to bed.

[Cheese]

har....a good morning larf! shoestring slays me.

Paying someone to install your Xmas lights?
I think Ive heard it all now...sorry but that just seems wrong.
If the desire is to have pretty lights then I think in order to enjoy them you need to do a Griswald.

[Reaper]

The best way to hang your xmas lights it to zip tie your strings of lights to long pieces of doweling with hooks in each end. Then, put eye hooks underneath the overhang of your roof. That way, you can easily hang your lights and they're a snap to take down. You can simply fold up the doweling with lights still attached and put them in 5 gallon buckets for storage.

[Ironhorse]

I'm glad I hung all of my lights last weekend.

I like using the little gutter clips, it keeps them all nicely aligned.

[return to the red]

stupid me didn't take the opportunity while I had it when it was warm but I didn't exactly feel like braving the 80km gusts to venture up and hang some xmas lights.

Looks like I'm gonna need to roast my nuts after I go up

[Fuzzy McGillicuddy]

Originally Posted by greyshep

Cmon, strap on the old winter gear and get on that ladder yourself!

Nothing like risking life and limb to get the Christmas lights up!

(I slid off my roof a few years ago doing this)

Managed to get mine up in dry conditions last weekend.

I jumped off my roof last year when gale-force chinook winds blew the ladder over (I thought I secured that thing). I now see the benefit of paying someone to do this. But I'm still too cheap (and stupid) to have someone else do it.

By the way - is it still too early to turn on your Christmas lights. Mine are already up, but I haven't turned them on yet. About half a dozen folks on my street already turn them on at night. Too early IMO. I'm waiting until next weekend when it's officially December.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Originally Posted by shoestring

Bulbs need a program to turn off. Anybody got a program like that to fit into a edison light bulb.
Tesla probably did that invention,too. Google him.

Drunken ramblings aside, get an outdoor timer for your Xmas lights. It's something like $7 at Superstore. Commonly used for Block Heaters. On at 5, off at midnight. Done.