Holiday Lighting
Handis holiday lighting installs and takes down plug-in Christmas lights on rooflines, trees, and shrubs, mounts permanent track-lighting systems with the hardwired wiring subbed to a licensed Washington L&I electrician, and runs full commercial holiday décor programs for HOAs and office parks — from $250 for a takedown-and-storage visit on an existing install. The two failure modes that send Seattle homeowners to a holiday-lighting service every year — a ladder slipping on wet shingles in late November, and a strand that worked fine in the box last December popping a GFCI the moment it lands on the roofline. We bring the right clip for the gutter profile, a GFCI-aware circuit plan, replacement strands and bulbs on the truck, and labeled storage bins for the takedown.
Services
What Does Holiday Lighting Service Include?
Holiday lighting is the residential and commercial install service that puts seasonal or year-round outdoor lights up on a property and takes them back down — covering plug-in Christmas installs on rooflines, trees, and shrubs, permanent track lighting mounted to the soffit with the hardwired circuit subbed to a licensed Washington L&I electrician, full takedown with labeled storage, and commercial décor programs for HOAs and multi-property managers. Handis covers three real service families from $250 up to $9,000 across the season. Each family has its own page below.
Christmas Light Installation (plug-in)
All plug-in LED Christmas lighting — roofline runs along the fascia and gables, full tree and shrub wrap on yard plantings, and permanent track-lighting systems where Handis does the track mounting and plug-in segments and the hardwired circuit is sub-contracted to a licensed Washington L&I electrician. Strands clipped to the gutter or roofline with the right profile clip, GFCI-aware circuit plan so a single bad bulb does not trip the whole front of the house, timers and smart-plug controllers paired before we leave. From $400.
Christmas Light Installation (plug-in) — roofline lighting, tree & shrub wrap, permanent track lighting (subbed wiring)
Holiday Light Takedown & Storage
The other half of the holiday lighting job — strands pulled without yanking the clips, coiled snake-coil so the next install does not start with an hour of untangling kink memory, hardware sorted and stored in UV-coated bins labeled by elevation (front roofline, garage gable, west tree, walkway shrubs), and any broken bulbs or strands flagged for replacement before the bin closes. From $250 for a single-story existing install.
Holiday Light Takedown & Storage
Commercial Holiday Décor
Multi-elevation holiday programs for HOAs, office parks, retail centers, mixed-use properties, and multi-property managers. Site walks in September, design proposal in early October, install across late October and November, on-call response through the season for outages or wind damage, full takedown in January, labeled storage on site or off site. From $2,500 per property; full multi-elevation HOA and office-park programs run to $9,000 and up.
Holiday Lighting Pricing
Final pricing depends on linear footage of roofline, number of trees and shrubs, whether existing strands are reused or replaced, and whether the system is plug-in seasonal or permanent track lighting (which adds the licensed-electrician portion). Each child page lists detailed pricing for that service. Request a free estimate for an accurate quote.
Tell us the property and the look you want — we will quote the install and the takedown.
Why Seattle Homeowners Book Handis for Holiday Lighting
Holiday lighting looks like a one-day job from the driveway. The reality is closer to a small construction project — strand counts measured to linear footage, GFCI circuits planned around amperage budgets (most exterior GFCIs on a single 15-amp circuit cap out around twelve hundred LED bulbs before the breaker resets), clip profiles matched to the gutter (K-style versus half-round versus none-at-all-and-clipped-to-the-shingle), timer and smart-plug pairing, then the same job in reverse two months later in the cold and rain. A few hundred installs in, the patterns repeat. We bring the right clip for your gutter, the right strand count for your footage, and the storage bins that mean next year's install starts from the right box.
GFCI-aware circuit plan, not strand-count-by-eyeball
A single 15-amp exterior GFCI circuit handles roughly 1,200 LED bulbs before the breaker resets — incandescent strands hit that wall at about 200 bulbs because of the higher wattage per bulb. We measure the linear footage, pick a bulb spacing, and split the run across two outlets when the math demands it. A house with the front roofline tripping the GFCI every other evening because one strand is overloaded is a call we get every December — we plan past it.
Right clip for the gutter profile
K-style gutter, half-round gutter, no gutter (clipped to the shingle edge with all-in-one clips), wrought-iron porch rail, brick fascia, stone-faced columns — each gets a different clip type. Wrong clip on a half-round gutter releases strands in the first windstorm; right clip stays put through January. The truck carries every common profile.
Storage that means next year starts in the right bin
Snake-coil pulldown (not figure-eight) prevents kink memory and rip-tested strand splits. UV-coated bins labeled by elevation — front roofline, garage gable, west tree, walkway shrubs — sit in the customer's garage or attic and open next October with the right strand on top. The hour you would have spent untangling on the first install day next year is the hour we already paid for in the takedown.
Honest scope on permanent track lighting — hardwired wiring routes to a licensed Washington L&I electrician
Permanent track-lighting systems (the year-round programmable LED tracks on the soffit) need a hardwired circuit from the panel to the soffit. That circuit is hardwired electrical work — it routes to a licensed Washington L&I electrician, not a handyman, by Washington L&I rules. Handis handles the track mounting, the channel install, the plug-in segments, the controller pairing, and the app setup; the electrician handles the circuit. We coordinate the schedule and stand for the install quality on our portion.
Insured, background-checked, 30-day workmanship guarantee
Every Handis handyman carries liability insurance and has cleared a background screening before the first job. If a clip pops, a strand sags, a timer fails to fire, or a stake leans on us within 30 days of install, we come back and fix it at no extra charge.
Estimate
Tell us the property — single-story or two-story, approximate roofline footage, number of trees and shrubs you want lit, whether you want plug-in seasonal or a permanent track-lighting system, and any preference on warm white versus multi-color. We send a clear estimate for the install and the takedown.
What Our Customers Say
Recent holiday lighting reviews from verified Seattle-area customers.
Roofline install in early November on a two-story Craftsman. Tech split the run across two GFCI circuits because the front and the side gable would have overloaded a single outlet — explained why before he plugged anything in. Clean warm white strands traced along the fascia for two months without a single outage. Takedown the second week of January, all back in labeled bins.
Six shrubs and two maples along the front walk. We used to put up rope lights ourselves and they looked terrible — half the bulbs out by mid-December. Handis put real LED strands on a timer, green wire on the shrubs so the daytime view is just shrubs. Three windstorms in and nothing has moved.
Permanent track lighting on the soffit. Handis ran the install, their electrician handled the circuit from the panel. Both crews on site the same week, no scheduling shuffle on my end. The system runs holiday colors in December, soft white the rest of the year, controlled from my phone. Better than anything I priced in Lake Washington.
Inherited the holiday lights from the previous owners — six bins, no labels, half the strands corroded. Booked Handis for a takedown plus assessment. They pulled everything, sorted what was salvageable, threw the trash strands in a bag, labeled the bins by elevation. Now I know exactly what I have for next year.
HOA board hired Handis for the front entrance plus the clubhouse — three big trees, the clubhouse roofline, two flagpoles wrapped, garland along the entry sign. Crew showed up in mid-November, installed in one day, took it all down on January eight. We did not get a single complaint, which never happens.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Handis holiday lighting — pricing, scheduling, GFCI and circuit planning, permanent versus seasonal, storage, and what routes to a licensed Washington L&I electrician.