What permanent lighting costs
Your roofline is the price: how much edge the house has, and how much of it you want lit.
There is no published per-foot rate: your quote is measured on the house itself. The estimate is free, and asking for one commits you to nothing.
Professional permanent lighting installations starting around $3,500, depending on home size and design.
Quality guaranteed.
Are permanent Christmas lights worth it?
Yes, permanent Christmas lights are worth it when you want the house lit past December, since they go up once and the yearly job of hanging and taking down seasonal lights ends there.
Every Nashville quote begins at the starting price shown at the top of this page. Past that point, your roofline sets the number: how much edge the house has, how high it sits and how much of it you choose to light. Our installer measures it on the house before you get a quote. You pay for it once, up front, rather than every winter. Running it costs electricity too. Here is what a permanent roofline adds to a Nashville power bill: kWh a night, a season and a year for a 150 ft roofline, calculated from published specs.
| What you get | What can raise it |
|---|---|
| Lights | Lifts |
| Channel | Hard-to-reach runs |
| Controller and power equipment | Unusual electrical work |
| Installation, setup and testing | Complex layout |
| Orientation |
Any color on any night, run from your phone.
How much does permanent lighting cost in Nashville?
Professional permanent lighting installations starting around $3,500, depending on home size and design. Permanent lighting is priced by your roofline, not a flat Nashville rate: how many feet of edge it has, how many stories, peaks and dormers it carries, how hard the run is to reach, and how much of the house you want lit. The number comes from measuring your actual house, and the estimate for that measurement is free. Permanent Lighting Solutions brings permanent lights to homes near Nashville, Brentwood, Franklin, Hendersonville and Belle Meade.
Six things decide what your roofline costs
Two homes on the same street, built the same year to the same square footage, can need completely different amounts of channel, time and ladder work. These six things are the difference.
The FAQ goes further into why the same system costs more on one house than the next.
If you're pricing permanent Christmas lights, the same six drivers apply: see what a permanent Christmas system looks like on a Nashville roofline.
How much roofline there is
Main eaves, gable rakes, the porch, the garage. The channel is cut and fitted to every foot of it, so more edge means more channel, more lights and more time on the house.
How many stories it is
The same run is a different job at ten feet and at twenty-five. A second story puts every foot of it higher off the ground, and after this install nobody in your house has to climb up there again.
How many peaks and dormers
One long clean eave is the easy case. Every peak, dormer and corner is another cut and another turn, and it is exactly where the light looks best after dark.
How the work can be reached
A run over flat lawn is quicker to reach than one above a steep bank, a deck or a wall with nowhere to set a ladder.
What the track is fitted to
Fascia, a rake board, a soffit, stone, a curved turret. The channel is fitted to the edge your house actually has, in a finish chosen to disappear against it by day.
How much of it you want lit
Some homes light the main roofline and stop. Some carry it around the garage, the porch, the dormers and the entry. It is your call, and it moves the number more than anything else here.
Your estimate is built on your edge, not an average one
If you want to see the parts first, this is what goes up.
How much do permanent Christmas lights cost in Nashville?
It's the same roofline math above. A permanent system is one install that runs red and green in December and whatever color you want the rest of the year, so the feet of edge, the stories, the peaks and the access that decide any permanent lighting quote decide a Christmas-only one too. The starting figure above is where that conversation begins; the installers measure the actual roofline before it becomes a real number. The same holds for permanent Christmas lights in Franklin, Brentwood and the rest of Williamson County: the roofline is measured on the house, and the estimate is free.
Comparing a JellyFish, Gemstone or EverLights quote
If you're collecting more than one quote, ask every company the same questions. How many feet of your roofline does the quote cover? Is the controller and app included, or sold separately? What does the labor cover: ladders, trim work, a second story? Is the number for the whole house, or just the front? A quote that answers all four is one you can actually compare.
The same system, on three houses with nothing in common
Look at how much edge each one has and how often it turns.
A front with a tower on itShort runs with a corner in nearly every one, and the light follows all of it, tower included. 
Two gables and one eaveThe simplest shape a house comes in, and the whole roofline still reads from the end of the street. 
A roofline that keeps goingWing after wing, lit end to end.
Two houses that look the same size from the street can need very different runs. Tell us which house is yours.
What the free estimate actually is
Three steps, from the form to a price.
You send the quote form
It takes about a minute: your name, how to reach you and what you would like lit. An installer will call you from there.
The installer measures your roofline
On the house itself: the eaves, the rakes, the porch, the garage, the peaks and the dormers, along with what the channel has to be fitted to.
You get the number for your house
Not a range you have to interpret and not arithmetic you have to do. A price for the roofline you actually have, and you decide from there.
Financing is available. Mention it when you request your estimate and the details come with your quote.
Veteran-owned. Licensed, insured and certified installers.
You are pricing the last time you do this
Even running 6-12 hours a day, our installations are known to last 10-20 years.
A string of seasonal lights never stops costing you. It comes back every December, and there is a ladder in it, yours or one you pay somebody else to climb.
Once the channel is fitted under your roofline, that yearly cost stops. The lighting becomes part of the house: color for the holidays, your favorite color on any night in March, nothing to put up in November and nothing to take down in January.
The controller comes with every install, programmed for you: holiday colors through the year, a favorite color, warm white every night, a dim glow, or whatever you want the house doing.
Compare putting lights up every year with putting them up once, or read what is covered after the install.
Still weighing it? The FAQ answers whether this is worth it on your house.
Thinking about doing it yourself instead? See how a self-install kit compares to a professional install.
Weighing one system against another? See eight permanent lighting systems side by side.
How many years until permanent lights pay for themselves?
Divide your quote by what you pay each year to have seasonal lights hung and taken down. That number is your break-even, in years.
- 50,000 rated hours
- No more ladders
- Run it from your phone
- Any color, any night
Bring us the actual roofline
Tell us where the house is and what you want lit. The next number you see will be the one for your roofline.