It is the first question almost everyone asks, and it is a fair one. You want to know what professional Christmas light installation costs before you pick up the phone. The honest answer is that there is no single sticker price, and any company that quotes you a flat number sight unseen is guessing. Your home is not a catalog item. The cost depends on your roofline, your trees, the look you want, and how much of your property you want lit. What we can do is walk you through exactly what goes into a quote so you understand where your money goes and why a free written estimate is the only number you should trust.
Why there is no flat price for holiday lighting
Two houses on the same street can carry very different price tags. A clean single-story ranch with a simple front roofline is a quick, straightforward job. A two-story home with multiple peaks, dormers, a wrapped tree out front, and lit shrubs along the walkway is a bigger project with more material and more labor. Pricing tracks the work, not a guess. That is why we come look, measure, and put a real number in writing before you commit to anything.
The main factors that move your quote
- Home size and number of stories. A two-story or three-story home takes more strand, more time, and more careful ladder and safety work than a single level.
- Linear feet of roofline. We measure the eaves, peaks, and ridges you want traced. More feet means more commercial-grade strand cut to fit.
- Roofline complexity. Lots of angles, gables, dormers, and steep pitches take longer to do cleanly and safely than one long straight run.
- Trees and landscape. Wrapping a mature tree, lighting shrubs, or outlining columns and walkways adds to the design. Our tree and landscape lighting can be as simple or as full as you like.
- Design and color choices. A custom color scheme, multiple colors, or a specific themed look may call for more planning. Our custom design and color service plans that around your home.
- Bulb type and density. How tightly spaced and which style of bulb you choose affects both the material and the finished look.
What full service actually includes
When you compare quotes, make sure you are comparing the same thing. A low price that only covers hanging lights you bought yourself is not the same as full service. With DAB, your quote covers far more than install day.
- Commercial-grade bulbs and strands. We provide them and cut them to fit your property. You do not buy or own anything.
- Professional installation. Our insured local crew handles the heights, the cold, and the clean lines through our residential installation service.
- Season-long maintenance. If a strand sags or a bulb goes dark, our maintenance and warranty brings us back out to fix it at no extra charge.
- Takedown and storage. After the holidays we remove everything and store it labeled through our takedown and storage service. No bins in your garage.
When you add up the value of the bulbs you never have to buy, the ladder time you never have to spend, the burned-out strands you never have to chase, and the January takedown you never have to dread, a professional install starts to look less like a luxury and more like the easy choice.
Comparing quotes the smart way
If you gather a few estimates, look past the bottom-line number and ask what each one includes. Does it cover the materials, or are you buying lights? Is maintenance included all season, or is every service call extra? Does the price include takedown and storage, or is that a separate bill in January? A quote that bundles everything is usually the better value even if it is not the lowest line item, because there are no surprises waiting for you later in the season.
Why we quote free and in writing
We give every homeowner and business a free written quote with no pressure. You see the scope and the number before anything happens. There is no obligation, and there is no charge to find out. If you are weighing the project, our piece on hiring a pro versus climbing the ladder yourself lays out the trade-offs, and if you are trying to lock in a date, read when to book your installer next.
Local matters for a fair price
We are a Champaign County company, not a national franchise routing you through a call center. We serve Champaign, Urbana, and the towns around them within about a thirty-mile radius. Because we live and work here, we can come out, look at your home in person, and give you a number that fits the actual job. That local visit is what turns a vague online estimate into a quote you can count on.
Ready to find out what your home would cost to light up this year? Tell us a little about your property and we will follow up the same day with a clear written quote. No cost, no pressure, just a real number.