Permanent Christmas lights in Harrison Township.
On a typical 60–250 ft Harrison Township front, permanent lights run about $1,300–$8,500 once, priced at $22–34 per lit foot. In Boat Town the back of a canal house faces the water, where passing boats and the docks across it see the roofline.
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Permanent lighting on a Harrison Township canal home: what we are working with.
Harrison Township is organized around the water. Lake St. Clair Metropark sits on the shore, marinas line the lakefront, and in the canal neighborhoods the homes back onto the water with a boat trailer parked beside the garage. On a canal lot the house has two faces. The street side is what the mail carrier sees; the water side is what every passing boat, every dock down the row and every neighbor across the canal looks at, and on open-water nights a lit roofline there shows up again in the canal. With a permanent channel those are two zones on one controller, each on its own schedule, and LightCast prices each from its own photo so you can start with either side or do both.
Exposure shapes the choice. Wind crosses open water with nothing to slow it before it meets a waterside eave. A seasonal string has to be clipped up and taken down every year; a channel fixed to the fascia board, or set just beneath the drip edge, stays put, with no clipped string or loose slack on the eave, and it is rated for Michigan winters. On the street side, a typical canal-lot house carries modest footage, anywhere from a single-story ranch to a smaller two-story. By day the channel is matched to the fascia and reads as trim, which counts on a lot where boats pass the back of the house at close range.
Why Harrison Township 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.
Canal side and street side, zoned
The roofline facing the water and the one facing the street run as separate zones from one controller. Keep the canal side glowing every evening and give the street side a shorter schedule, all from your phone.
Fastened on, not clipped on
Wind off Lake St. Clair reaches a waterside eave across open water. The channel is fastened to the fascia, so no clipped string or loose slack hangs on the eave, and it is rated for Michigan winters.
On for boating season as well
A lease comes down in January. The permanent channel is there on summer nights when the canal is busy: warm white over the dock, red, white and blue for the Fourth, or dark until you decide otherwise.
Permanent track is an autumn install, and on the canal streets that overlaps haul-out, when boats come out of the water and driveways fill with trailers and shrink-wrap. Install days are handed out in call order, which leaves the widest choice to whoever phones before the haul-out rush.
Seasonal Christmas lights in Harrison Township: the lease option.
Want lights for December and a bare eave the other eleven months? That is the C9 lease. The commercial lights stay ours; we design the run to your roofline, clip it on in November without staples or nails, and repair any outage during the season. After the holidays, in January, the crew unclips every run and it goes back into our storage. Add wreaths or garland and they are quoted along with that design.
$18–32 per foot with a $595 minimum, which on a typical 60–250 ft Harrison Township 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 Harrison Township house, over five years
Drag to your roofline length. The house types in the Harrison Township table measure 60 to 250 ft.
Preset to a typical Harrison Township roofline. Snaps to yours once you measure it below.
Measure both sides of a Harrison Township home.
Shoot the front from the curb and use the garage door as your scale reference. LightCast traces the eave and prices it; for the canal elevation, take another photo and tap a window.
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 Harrison Township homeowners ask first.
What does permanent lighting cost on a Harrison Township canal home?
Counting only the street side, a canal-lot house is usually a ranch or a smaller two-story. Figure $1,300–$2,700 for a ranch at 60–80 ft, and $2,200–$5,100 for a smaller two-story at 100–150 ft, at $22–34 per lit foot, paid once. Lakefront houses carry 150–250 ft facing the road, around $3,300–$8,500. The canal elevation gets its own photo, and the per-foot band applies to it unchanged.
Should we light the canal side or the street side?
The water side usually earns it first, because that is the elevation the boats, the docks and the homes across the canal actually look at, and on open-water nights it shows up again in the canal. The street side is for guests pulling in. With permanent track each side is its own zone on the same controller, so one can go on now and the other can join it later without becoming a yearly project.
How do I measure the canal side with LightCast?
Take a straight-on photo from across the water, from the far seawall or a neighbor's dock if they do not mind. There is rarely a garage door on that side, so tap a window for scale instead. LightCast traces that roofline, tallies any gables and hands back a second figure, and the crew confirms both sides on site before anything is ordered.
Will the channel hold up to the wind off Lake St. Clair?
The channel is fixed to the fascia with fasteners suited to it, or mounted beneath the drip edge, so there is no clipped string or loose slack on the eave. It is rated for Michigan winters, and the LEDs carry no filaments for the cold to break. If a diode or a run does fail, track and diodes are under warranty, and zoning lets us find the fault without taking the rest of the roofline down.
We live in a condo. Can we have permanent lighting?
Check your association's architectural guidelines first, since condo trim is often shared. If your unit's roofline can carry a channel, we measure it like any other elevation; if not, a leased C9 display is the other route.
Is a lease cheaper on a single-story canal house?
In the first winter it can be close. A C9 lease on 60–80 ft runs about $1,100–$2,600 per season, against $1,300–$2,700 once for the channel. From the second winter on the lease bill comes back and the channel does not, and the channel is also there for summer evenings on the water.
Guides for Harrison Township homeowners.
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How to divide three colors along one roofline, keep the white from turning pink, and time the look for late July dusk and every other flag holiday.Every guide is on the permanent lighting guides page.
Permanent Christmas lights near Harrison Township.
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