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Most people think of holiday lighting as a single event in November. In practice it is a service that runs about five months, and the parts after installation day are where the difference between companies actually shows. Our holiday lighting service in Lombard covers design, installation, the entire season of operation, takedown, and storage until the following year.
That means when a run goes dark the week before Christmas, you call and we come out — no charge, no argument about whether it was covered. It means nobody is on a roof in January prying frozen clips off a gutter. And it means the display does not live in your garage for ten months. See the full Christmas lights installation service in Lombard for scope.
Chicago winters are hard on outdoor lighting. Ice loading, wind off open ground, freeze-thaw cycling, and the occasional squirrel all take a toll between Thanksgiving and January. Even commercial-grade product occasionally needs attention, and how a company handles that is worth more than the install price.
Our service includes repairs for the whole season at no additional cost. If a section fails, we return and fix it. That commitment is only possible because we supply the product ourselves and know exactly what is on your house — a company installing customer-supplied retail strands cannot make the same promise. Our post on LED Christmas light types explains why product choice drives reliability.
Squirrels are a genuine and underrated cause of mid-season failure, particularly on the mature parkway trees through Lombard’s older streets. They chew strand jacketing where it wraps a trunk, and the failure usually shows up as one dark section rather than a whole run. We use heavier jacketed product on trunk wraps for exactly this reason, and repair it under the season coverage when it happens anyway.
January removal is scheduled, not requested. We come out, take everything down carefully rather than yanking it, and haul all of it away. Next fall we arrive with everything prepared to your design.
That storage step is the one homeowners appreciate most after the first year. Nothing in the rafters, nothing in bins, no untangling in October. It also extends product life considerably, since most strand damage happens in improper storage rather than on the roof. See how the install calendar works.
For properties that want light working more than six weeks a year, permanent year-round lighting is worth costing out. The fixtures mount once into the roofline, disappear in daylight, and reprogram by app — warm white through the holidays, team colors for a game, orange for Halloween, or subtle accent lighting on an ordinary Tuesday.
Retail along Butterfield Road increasingly runs this way because it eliminates the annual install and takedown line item entirely. Homeowners like it for the security and curb appeal the rest of the year. Read what permanent holiday lighting costs or how permanent lighting improves home security, then get a free consultation.
