Permanent Christmas lights in Farmington Hills.
On a typical 60–250 ft Farmington Hills front, permanent lights run about $1,300–$8,500 once, priced at $22–34 per lit foot. Three generations of subdivisions filled in here under street trees as old as the plat, most of them mixing brick and wood.
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Permanent lighting on a Farmington Hills brick-and-wood colonial: what we are working with.
Read an older Farmington Hills colonial from the bottom up and it changes material twice: brick across the first story, painted wood or later siding on the second, and aluminum on the fascia at the top. The channel belongs to that top layer only. It fastens to the fascia or sits under the drip edge with fasteners picked for the surface actually there, it is color-matched to the trim, nothing is fastened to the brick or the siding, and nothing goes through a shingle. LightCast measures the eave runs and counts the peaks from a single photo taken at the curb.
The age of the plat shapes the job more than the address does. The 1950s and 60s plats, Kendallwood among them, set the pattern: colonials and ranches in brick and wood, with tri-levels among them. On the older east side the canopy has closed over the road, so ladders go up between limbs and the lit eave shows through bare branches from leaf drop to spring. The 1970s and 80s subdivisions such as Ramblewood bring vinyl two-stories and tri-levels, whose stepped roofs mean more cuts for each foot of run. The 1990s builds, Copper Creek's golf-course streets among them, add fiber cement and stone with larger rooflines that sit higher in the table. West of Orchard Lake Road the canopy runs lighter, so less of the eave hides behind limbs.
Why Farmington Hills homeowners go permanent.
Commercial RGBW LEDs in a low-profile aluminum channel on the fascia, never through a shingle. Phone control, schedules, zones, rated for Michigan winters, with a warranty on the track and the diodes.
Seen through bare branches
Street trees fifty to seventy years old hide a roofline all summer and frame it once the leaves drop. A channel on a dusk schedule keeps the outline of the house showing through that whole stretch, not for one month of it.
Three materials, one attachment point
Brick, painted wood and aluminum fascia share most of the older fronts. The track attaches only at the fascia or drip edge, color-matched to the trim, so by day it passes for part of the eave and the masonry below stays as built.
Every plat on the same math
A 1960s ranch, a 1980s tri-level and a larger 1990s colonial all price at one per-foot rate. Peak count and height decide where in the band a house lands, and LightCast shows yours before anyone comes out.
Permanent channel goes on during a single autumn visit in Farmington Hills. Install dates get booked in sequence as requests land, which means an early call picks from the most open days.
Seasonal Christmas lights in Farmington Hills: the lease option.
Rather have the December-only look? Lease a C9 display. We own the commercial C9 lights, design the layout, cut each run to your eave, and put it up in November. It rides on clips, never staples or nails, so nothing is driven into the shingles or gutters. Anything that goes out during the season is ours to fix. January is takedown, after which the strands sit in our storage until the following winter. Wreaths and garland can join the display, priced as part of the design.
$18–32 per foot with a $595 minimum, which on a typical 60–250 ft Farmington Hills roofline is $1,100–$8,000 a year. At these prices a permanent channel costs about what one season of leasing costs, and from the second December on it is paid for. If you want the December-only look, or you may move within a year, the lease is the right call and we will say so.
The seasonal service is described in full on the Christmas light installation page at macombpowerwashing.com.
A Farmington Hills house, over five years
Drag to your roofline length. The house types in the Farmington Hills table measure 60 to 250 ft.
Preset to a typical Farmington Hills roofline. Snaps to yours once you measure it below.
Price your Farmington Hills colonial from one photo.
One level photo from across the road is enough. LightCast follows the eave, you tap your garage door so it knows the scale, and one measurement yields both a permanent price and a seasonal price.
One photo from the street
Straight-on, in daylight, full roofline in frame. Your phone camera is perfect.
Press Set scale, then tap both edges of your garage door
A standard door is a built-in ruler. That turns pixels into real linear feet.
Get the number
Footage, peaks and a priced range from the same math our crews quote from.
Want to adjust the roofline?
If the lights follow your eaves and peaks, keep it. If they missed a run, trace it yourself in about ten seconds.
- Add a photo
- Set the scale
- Your number
Scale
Garage doors give the most accurate number; a 3 ft door or window is a smaller ruler, so the range is looser.
Color
Animation
Fine tuning
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Things Farmington Hills homeowners ask first.
How much is permanent lighting for a Farmington Hills colonial?
A two-story colonial here carries 120–180 ft along its front eaves and gables. At $22–34 per lit foot, that 120–180 ft costs roughly $2,600–$6,100 a single time. For comparison, a ranch (60–80 ft) runs about $1,300–$2,700, while a colonial with a side-entry or three-car garage (150–250 ft) runs about $3,300–$8,500. LightCast reads your own footage and peaks from a photo.
Our house is brick on the bottom and wood on top. Where does the lighting mount?
Above both of them, along the top edge of the house. It goes on the fascia first, or the underside of the drip edge if that eave calls for it, held by fasteners suited to that surface, and its color is matched to the trim rather than to the brick or the siding. Nothing is fastened to the brick or the siding, and nothing goes through a shingle.
Leaves hide part of our roof in the photo. Can LightCast still measure it?
Usually. It finds the roofline on its own when enough of the eave is visible, and if the trees block a stretch, switch to manual mode and tap along the eave yourself. A photo taken after the leaves come down is easier still. Whatever the photo shows, our crew verifies the footage at the house, and only then does any product get ordered.
How is a tri-level priced?
The same way as any other house: $22–34 per lit foot. A tri-level simply has more short runs at different heights, so it tends to carry more cuts and peaks per foot than a level colonial eave. LightCast traces each level and counts the peaks, so that shows up in the range.
Does our subdivision association get a say?
Many of the older plats and newer subdivisions here have architectural standards, so check your association's guidelines before booking. If the board asks how it looks by day and what it is fastened to, the answers are a slim channel colored like the trim, mounted at the fascia or drip edge, and not one fastener through a shingle.
Guides for Farmington Hills homeowners.
Christmas lights on a brick house
Brick ranches, brick-front colonials, tan brick and painted brick: where the lights actually attach, which white suits the wall, and what never to do to a mortar joint. Michigan homesChristmas lights on a split-level house
Split-levels put two or three roofs at different heights across one front. Here is how to light each level, handle the step between them, and measure it all from one photo.Every guide is on the permanent lighting guides page.
Permanent Christmas lights near Farmington Hills.
Every Oakland County city page, with its footage and prices side by side, is on the Oakland County page. Every city we serve is listed on the LightCast home page.
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