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Frankfort, IllinoisIs Professional Christmas Light Installation Worth It In Frankfort?
What it costs, what is included, and how to tell whether hiring it out beats another Saturday on a ladder. Straight numbers from a local crew that installs across Will County.
Short answer on cost
Professional Christmas light installation in Frankfort, Illinois starts at $749 for an all inclusive season. Most single story homes land between $749 and $1,200, two story homes run roughly $1,200 to $2,000, and larger custom homes with multiple peaks and tree wraps go above $2,000. That price includes design, commercial grade LEDs cut to your roofline, an auto timer, maintenance through the season, takedown in January, and storage until next year.
Short answer on whether it is worth it
For most Frankfort homeowners, yes. Between the ladder time on an icy roofline, the strands you replace every few seasons, and the storage, doing it yourself is rarely as cheap as it looks on paper. If your display is one run along a single story porch, do it yourself. Once you are working above ten feet or across multiple peaks, hiring it out is the better call.
What Professional Christmas Light Installation Costs In Frankfort
Frankfort homes run larger than the Will County average, and that is the single biggest factor in what a display costs. Pricing is driven by how much roofline gets lit, how high the crew has to work, and how many separate elements you want covered. A ranch with a clean front elevation and a two story with dormers, a garage wing, and a wraparound porch are two very different jobs even on the same street.
Ranges reflect all inclusive seasonal packages, meaning design, lights, install, maintenance, removal and storage. Always confirm what a quote covers before comparing it to another one.
What moves the price up or down
- Linear feet of roofline lit, which is the base of almost every quote
- Number of stories and the pitch of the roof, since height slows the work and raises the risk
- Peaks, dormers, gables, and second story returns that each add setup time
- Extra elements like wrapped trees, columns, walkway stakes, or wreaths
- Whether the display uses warm white C9 bulbs, color, or a mix
- How early you book, since the last available install dates are the tightest ones
What Should Be Included In The Price
The word to watch in every quote is inclusive. Two Frankfort quotes can be several hundred dollars apart and turn out identical once you find out one of them bills takedown separately. A complete package covers six things:
- A design consultation for your specific roofline rather than a generic package
- Commercial grade LED lights, custom cut to your home, not big box strands
- An automatic timer set so the display runs at dusk and shuts off overnight
- Maintenance through the season, meaning a failed run gets fixed at no extra charge
- Removal in January, done by the installer rather than left to you
- Storage of the lights until the following season, so nothing lives in your garage
Commercial grade LEDs cut to the roofline sit tight to the edge instead of sagging between clips.
Is Hiring A Professional Actually Worth It?
Here is the honest version, including the part where the answer is no.
The real cost of doing it yourself
Store bought strands for a typical Frankfort roofline run a couple hundred dollars, plus clips, plus a timer, plus an extension ladder if you do not own one that reaches. That gear does not last forever either. Consumer grade sets tend to fail after two or three Illinois winters, so you are rebuying a portion of the display every few seasons. Then there is the time, usually six to ten hours between hanging and taking down, most of it on a ladder in November and January weather.
The part nobody puts in the spreadsheet
Ladder falls spike every year around the holidays, and the ones that hurt people involve exactly what a Christmas display involves: a ladder on frozen or wet ground, reaching sideways to place a clip, working above ten feet in the cold. If your roofline is single story and you are steady on a ladder, that risk is manageable. On a two story Frankfort home with a steep pitch, it is not a risk worth taking to save a few hundred dollars.
When doing it yourself makes sense
- Your display is one run along a single story porch or garage
- You already own commercial grade lights that fit your roofline
- You enjoy the process and have somewhere dry to store everything
- Nothing requires working above the first floor
When hiring it out makes sense
- The roofline goes above ten feet or the pitch is steep
- You want the display to look consistent rather than lit where you could reach
- You do not want to be responsible for a dead section in mid December
- January takedown is the part you dread most, which is true for almost everyone
- You are selling in spring and want the exterior to photograph well through the season
When To Book In Frankfort
Book in September or early October. Installers only have so many install days between late October and the first week of December, and in Frankfort and the surrounding Will County towns the good dates go early. If you want your lights on before Thanksgiving, that is the window everyone wants, and it fills first. Returning customers frequently rebook in summer just to hold their week.
The Bottom Line For Frankfort Homeowners
Professional installation in Frankfort starts at $749 for an all inclusive season, and most homes land somewhere between $900 and $2,000 depending on roofline and height. Whether that is worth it comes down to your house rather than your budget. Single story and simple, do it yourself and enjoy it. Two stories, multiple peaks, or a display you actually want people to notice, hire it out and spend those two Saturdays on something else.
We install across Frankfort, New Lenox, Mokena, and all of Will County, along with Kankakee County. Learn more about our Christmas light installation packages, see everything we do in Frankfort, or request a free quote and we will get a number back to you the same day.
Common Questions
Frankfort Christmas Light FAQ
All inclusive packages in Frankfort start at $749 for the season. Most single story homes with a straightforward roofline land between $749 and $1,200, two story homes generally run $1,200 to $2,000, and larger custom homes in areas like Prestwick with multiple peaks, dormers, and tree wraps run $2,000 and up. That price covers design, commercial grade LEDs cut to your roofline, an auto timer, maintenance all season, takedown in January, and storage until the next year.
For most Frankfort homeowners, yes. You are not just paying for the hang. You are paying to keep yourself off an icy two story roofline, to skip storing and replacing strands every few seasons, and to have someone fix a dead run in December instead of climbing back up yourself. If your display is one strand along a single story porch, doing it yourself makes sense. Once the roofline goes above ten feet or the display spans multiple peaks, the math and the risk both move toward hiring it out.
With most all inclusive programs, including ours, the lights stay with the installer. They are custom cut for your roofline, maintained through the season, removed in January, and stored until the following year. That is why there is no separate storage headache and no bins of tangled strands in your garage.
September or early October. Installers work through a fixed number of install days between late October and early December, and preferred dates in Frankfort and the rest of Will County are usually gone by mid October. Returning customers often rebook in summer to hold their week.
Under a maintenance included package, you call and the installer comes back out and fixes it at no additional charge. That is one of the real differences between a professional program and store bought strands, where a failed run in the middle of a cold snap becomes your problem on your ladder.
It should. Every all inclusive package we run in Frankfort covers removal in January along with storage until next season. If you are comparing quotes, ask specifically whether takedown is included or billed separately, because that gap is where two quotes that look similar stop being comparable.
Let Us Handle The Lights This Year
Design, commercial grade LEDs, maintenance all season, January takedown, and storage. Packages start at $749. Frankfort dates fill by mid October.
