How Much Does Christmas Light Installation Cost in Texas?

Professional Christmas light installation in Texas depends on how many feet of light your house needs and how high they sit. At Holiday Lights Texas, roofline lighting is $6 per linear foot at the first level, $8 at the second level and $10 at the third level and peaks. Ground lighting is $5 per foot, tree wraps are $37 to $42 per strand, and our minimum package is $799.

Most single-family homes land in a band we have published for years: roofline plus ridge cap usually falls between $800 and $1,500, adding landscaping, tree wraps and walkways typically lands between $1,500 and $3,000, and full-property displays start at $3,000. Every one of those figures includes design, custom-cut commercial-grade LED lighting, installation, free in-season maintenance, removal and off-season storage.

The rest of this guide shows the arithmetic, so you can check any quote against it, ours included. If you would rather skip the math, the Christmas light cost estimator builds a range for your own house in a few minutes.

A fair price list is short enough to read in one sitting. Ours is a handful of lines, and nothing is hidden behind them.

Height is the reason roofline has three prices. A first-level run, such as a single-story eave, a garage or a porch roof, is the quickest and safest to reach. A second-level run on a two-story house takes different access equipment. Third-level lines and peaks need the most reach and the most time per foot.

These are illustrations, not quotes and not real customers. They show how the rates combine.

Example one, a small single-story house with 120 feet of first-level roofline. At $6 per foot that is $720, which is under the minimum, so the $799 minimum package applies. You are paying for a finished, maintained, removed and stored display, and the minimum is what makes a small job worth doing properly.

Example two, a two-story house with 100 feet at the first level (garage and porch), 120 feet at the second level and 40 feet of ridge and peaks at the third level. That is $600 plus $960 plus $400, or $1,960 for roofline. Add 80 feet of ground lighting along the walkway at $5 and you are at $2,360.

Example three, the same two-story house with three medium trees wrapped at the trunk. If we assume each tree takes two strands, that is six strands, or $222 to $252. The total becomes about $2,580 to $2,610. Your own number depends on your measurements, which is why we confirm them on site before you commit.

Five things explain nearly every difference between two houses of the same size.

First, the amount of roofline and the number of separate planes. A house with nine gables needs far more custom-cut strand than a simple hip roof of the same square footage. Second, height and access: a two-story gable costs more per foot than a single-story fascia because it needs different equipment. Third, what else you want lit. Trees, hedges, walkways and driveway edges each add material and labor. Fourth, the product: commercial-grade, weather-rated LED costs more than a retail strand, and it is why a display looks the same in week six as in week one. Fifth, how certain the measurements are, because a number built on a photograph is a range until someone confirms it on the property.

A single price covers the whole season. It includes the design, the custom-cut set made for your property, installation, a timer, free in-season maintenance, removal and off-season storage. There is no separate January invoice for takedown and no storage charge.

The lights stay with us. You are not buying a box of strands to keep in the garage. You are buying a finished display on your house, kept working through the season, taken down when you ask and stored until next year, when it returns already cut to your rooflines. If something goes wrong, we answer within 24 hours, seven days a week, for the whole season.

Ask every company the same questions. Is takedown included, or is it a second invoice? Is storage included, or do you keep the lights? Is in-season repair free, and how fast is the response? Is the quote per foot, or a flat number with no measurements behind it? Is the lighting commercial grade, and does it belong to you or to them?

A cheaper quote that leaves out removal and repair is usually the more expensive one by January. Our guide on how to read a Christmas light quote walks through the line items to look for, and DIY versus professional compares the full cost of doing it yourself.

First-time customers get $50 off a first installation. Mention it when you request your quote and we will attach it to your file, or claim it on the coupons page. It cannot be combined with another Holiday Lights Texas credit or promotion, and it applies to the installation total before the season begins.

A flat price is easy to advertise and hard to defend. Two houses with the same square footage can need very different amounts of light, because the roofline is what gets lit and the roofline is rarely proportional to the floor plan. A long ranch with a simple eave line and a compact two-story with six gables are different jobs, and a single number cannot honestly describe both.

Pricing by the foot and by height keeps the quote tied to the work. It also means the price moves in a way you can follow: add a ridge cap and you can see the extra feet, add a tree and you can see the extra strands. If a company cannot show you the measurements behind its number, you cannot tell what you are paying for.

Overpaying usually comes from lighting things that do not read from the street. A display looks strongest when it follows the main lines of the house and a few anchor features, such as wrapped trunks and a lit entry. Adding more of everything raises the price without raising the effect, and our designers will tell you where to stop.

Underpaying is subtler. A quote that leaves out removal, storage or repairs looks cheaper in October and costs more in January. So does product that is not built for a Texas winter, because a set that fails in week three has to be fixed or replaced. Compare the whole season, not the install.

Finally, price and size are not the same thing. If your budget is fixed, tell us the number and we will design to it, starting with the lines that matter most and leaving room to add trees, beds or a walkway next year, when the same set returns already cut to your house.