Chicagoland · Christmas lights
A lit roofline, installed and maintained, with nothing left for you to climb.
What’s involved
Professional Christmas light installation covers the whole job: a site measure, commercial-grade LED strands cut to your roofline, clean clip work along gutters and ridges, tree and shrub wrapping, timers set, and full takedown and storage after the season. Most Chicagoland homeowners lease the lights on a multi-year basis, which means the installer owns the bulbs, replaces failures, and stores everything in the off-season — you are paying for a lit house on a schedule, not a box of tangled strands in the garage. Installers matched through Curbstead carry insurance, work steep and multi-story rooflines, and know how to clip slate and cedar shake without penetrating the roof.
Questions
Before you book christmas lights.
- Do you use my lights or provide them?
- Either. Most homeowners lease commercial-grade LED strands, which the installer sizes to your roofline, maintains, and stores off-season. If you own lights you like, installers can hang those instead, though failures then become your cost.
- Does the price include takedown and storage?
- On a lease, yes — takedown after the season and off-season storage are part of the arrangement. If you own the lights, ask whether takedown is bundled or billed separately; both are common and worth confirming in the quote.
- Can you install on a slate or cedar-shake roof?
- Qualified crews do, using non-penetrating clips along gutters and ridges rather than staples or screws. This is one of the first things to confirm on a historic-district home, and one of the criteria we screen installers for.
- How far in advance should I book?
- By mid-October in most Chicagoland towns. The better installers share a small pool of crews across neighboring suburbs and fill their November calendars early. Booking sooner also gets you first choice of install dates before Thanksgiving.
Where we match installers