Residential Christmas Light Service

Light up the Holidays with professional Christmas lighting for your home this season.

Residential Christmas light decorating services for the Columbia South Carolina areas including Blythewood, Irmo, Chapin, and Lexington sc.

Call or text (803)-269-0513

High quality results with a nice clean look, and at a reasonable rate much lower than most service companies that do Christmas lights.

We have 20 years experience hanging lights with thousands of satisfied customers over the years.

Many companies charge outrageous rates for a service we make look easy. As a service company, we work year-round on roofs and ladders, and this makes us safer and comfortable as well. Most companies hire seasonal employees and rent a lift to put up lights, and this will add to your price.

With years of trial, and error we've come up with an efficient system without unnecessary steps involved. Over the years I've met homeowners that have successfully put up their own lights, and many that have tried. For many homeowners the results can look sloppy, or incomplete when done themselves.

First of all any lights look better than nothing at all, and if you just have a hard time with the tall sections of your home then give us a call. We can do just the hard high lights or all your lights, and we can give you a quote for the different options as well.

How our Holiday decorating service works

• Pick your favorite lights, and we'll put them up. We supply and include the right clips for your lights. Also we will use any of your extension cords as well. (Preferably not bright orange, we try to hide the extension cords and green or beige makes this easier.)

• If you don't have any lights we can give suggestions, as well as how many feet you'll need. We do keep a large supply of extra extension cords, and splitters if needed.

• Some companies supply the lights, and store them for you. This sounds like a convenience but the extra costs with a storage fee added is just an extra profit for most companies that do this.

• An average 3000 square foot home uses about $100 to $200 worth of lights plus extension cords. This will depend on the type of lights as well. (this amount of Christmas lights will usually fit in one storage bin and easily can be stored away with most other seasonal decorations.)

• Our lighting advice can extend to your landscaping as well. Most of our customers will do their own lights for small trees or bushes. We can also provide a quote for this as well if you'd like this service added.

• For the budget minded doing your own lights in your landscaping is easy, and provides the most bang for your buck.

The great debate on the best Christmas lights to use for your home

• Okay many people have opinions on the best lights that are usually based on marketing hype. And only to find out half way through the season their Christmas lights stop working.

• Yes Cosco or Home Depot will give you a guarantee, this is after you have already put your lights up, and now have to install new lights and hope for better luck this time.

• People ask maybe I got a bad batch? Yes you did, and many others as well. Being a service company that guarantees our work, and for your lights to work. We know after 20 years hanging lights what types give us the most problems.

• Yes the box says 15 000 lit hours, and people say they're LEDs they must be good. Plus they cost more they must be better?

• All lights at the commercial stores will say right on the cord (for temporary use only 90 days). Yes all lights say this, but why? this doesn't make sense you say 15 000 hours equals years of use. Well manufacturers have started adding on the package something like (15 000 bulb lit hours).

• This means the LED bulb might last that long, but the very thin wire going from bulb to bulb will not. I don't know what government agency actually tests the life of Christmas lights but all lights have this label right near the plug.

• So again the question remains what are the best Christmas lights?

  The best lights are wired in parallel with two wires going in the bulb, and two going out. The most unreliable Christmas lights are wired in series, and have two or three wires going from bulb to bulb.

• When a series wired light strand go's out, usually this means half the strand stops working. We've all had this happen with the Christmas tree lights in our home, or bush net lights, as well as the icicle lights.

• A few years ago a customer of ours, being an electrician understood this common type of wiring. After a few weeks his lights, (half his house) stopped working. He only had two strands for his whole house but they were 100 feet each. I took the whole top strand down, and figured he's an electrician he must be able to fix Christmas lights. He looked at me and laughed saying it would take him half the day to find the loose wire with 400 lights on it and fix it. (Please don't buy the Cosco giant spool of lights)

• If you are determined to use LEDs wired this way then buy the shortest lengths that are under 20 to 25 feet each. Short lengths are also much easier to work with, and if half a 20 foot strand does go out this is easier to replace or it may not be very noticeable on larger homes depending where it went out.

• Parallel wired lights work the best. If you can unscrew the bulb that has an old fashioned socket and only two wires that looks like one, then it is parallel. Easily the most reliable, if one one or two lights go out your whole strand will continue to work.

• Some Christmas light companies that also do installations will use large commercial spools, and these are cut to fit your house. These light spools can also be purchased by the general public online. I recommend this type as well, or the easiest option is buy incandescent c7 or c9 lights at Hobby Lobby, Home Depot, or Lowes.

• C7 are smaller bulbs than the C9's but from a distance like at the end of your driveway look almost the same. Since they are not LED they will use more electricity but at just $6 to $10 per box vs 20 to $30 per box it might not be much of a difference.

• Not all houses are the same size, and sometimes on very extensive jobs with larger homes say over 5000 or 6000 square feet LEDs will be more practical on your electrical circuit. Also houses situated on a corner might want two sides of lights put up.

• Recently did a house in Chapin for Christmas lights that wanted their long football field length driveway trees lite up. For this took about 40 boxes of mini LEDs that we wired from tree to tree. Looked amazing it light up everything, and wasn't a drain on the power. The whole house front and back of the house was lite with shorter length LEDs as well, plus most of the bushes and railings as well. Being an older house we didn't have many options for extra power but with each wire strand only using about 2 to 5 watts it worked out great.

• If you do get the commercial spools, you can also buy the LED bulbs that fit as well for this. These lights will last years as well because of the wiring.

• Just a little caution these lighting spools are not fused, It would be extremely rare but if you put hundreds of regular lights in it, this could over heat and cause a fire. Not to make people worried about this, you could add a fuse to it, or keep the lengths shorter.

• You will know by adding up the wattage of each bulb for the total amount of the strand to see if the wattage is too high. The easy way is if the light prongs are very hot to the touch after a few minutes. (then you have way too many lights on one strand, and should definitely shorten it.

• I've seen over the years timers for lights melted from over heating as well. The timer also has a wattage rating that is lower than your outlet, this will always be listed on the back of the timer in very small print. (most likely written by the same government agency that let us know our lights are recommended for 90 days use).

• Well I didn't mean to bore most people about Christmas lights, and I hope this helps in your buying options. Please contact us if you have any other questions as well, or if you'd like a quote for lights this Holiday season.

Examples below are of homes we've done in the past, and the different types of lights used

Above picture in Irmo of mini LEDs, and not clipping any bulbs. Not as clean as clipping every bulb but still looks good.

Above house with a very nice, great customer in Chapin that just needed the upper lights that his ladder couldn't reach done. He later did the lower lights including down the sides. These were large bulbed LEDs and clipped every 20 inches or so. No bulbs were clipped.

The above pictures are of a very fun day in Chapin hanging lights with our son Joshua. This customer was nice enough to also send photos later after the rare snow fall. At this house we used warm LEDs, and did clip every bulb. They were having a busy Holiday season with a few parties so we did the entrance way trees with mini LEDs. Also the back pool area trees, and palm trees.

Quotes can be done by letting us know what you want done on your house. We can google your address for a street view, or send a picture of the front and anything else you want lights installed.

Our service area for Christmas lights is Lexington sc, Irmo, Chapin, Blythewood and the greater Columbia sc Lake Murray area