Professional Christmas Light Installation in Lynchburg, VA
We design it, hang it, fix it if a strand fails, and take it all down in January. Lynchburg packages start at $940, with takedown and storage already in the price.
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- Takedown + storage included
- In-season repairs included
Lynchburg Christmas Light Installation Prices
No call needed to learn the price. Pick the package that matches your roofline. Every price includes design, install, in-season repairs, January takedown and storage.
Elf Package
From $940
Up to 75 ft of roofline. Fits most ranch homes and townhomes in Forest, Timberlake and Madison Heights.
Rudolph Package
From $1,700
Up to 175 ft of roofline. The usual fit for Boonsboro and Wyndhurst colonials and two-story family homes.
Santa Package
From $2,500
Up to 275 ft of roofline. For larger multi-gable homes and the taller Victorians on Rivermont and Garland Hill.
North Pole Package
From $3,200
Up to 400 ft of roofline. For estates and big homes in Boonsboro and Bedford County with long, complex rooflines.
Add-ons: Tree wrapping runs $150 to $1,475 depending on height and species. Wreaths, garland, pillar wraps and window lights run $75 to $400 each. Permanent C9 roof lights start around $1,750 for up to 100 feet. Estate and commercial properties are priced on site after a design walk.
Every price includes design, installation, in-season repairs, January takedown and storage. Many companies in this market bill removal separately at $100 to $400. We don’t. Compare all four on our Christmas light packages page or call (434) 333-6445.
What Lynchburg Homeowners Say About Lights Around
Cecilia Gesling
January 2026
Once again, Lights Around VA and their employees are rockstars! For the second year, they made our house stand out in the neighborhood. We’re looking forwarding to next year!
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Pamela Simpkins
January 2026
I love Lights Around!! This has been my third installation, and I’ve always been satisfied. There was a little issue with my installation and they didn’t quit until it was resolved. They are friendly and easy to work with. Santa even drops off cookies.
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Victor Mertz
December 2025
Lights around did an amazing job. Ryan and his crew were very professional and worked around our schedule. Our grandkids loved seeing the “elves” come out and put up our Christmas lights. They even had Christmas music playing while they worked. I would highly recommend them for next year! Awesome job!!! Loved the lights!!!!
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Nathan Mullins
December 2025
This is the 3rd year in a row that we have had Lights Around decorate our house and we’ve been pleased with the results every time. Our package is a bit pricy, but well worth it. Our home lights up the cul-de-sac. Staff has been very courteous and pleasant to work with as well.
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Kim Williams
December 2025
We are thrilled with Lights Around! Great service and communication every step of the way.
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Jimmy Messick
December 2025
Very timely and professional.
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Bring Home the Glow
The holidays are about coming together. Call or request a free quote today, and we’ll build a display that makes your Lynchburg home or business the one neighbors slow down for.
There’s a moment every December when you pull into the driveway, the roofline catches, and the whole house looks like the holidays feel. We build that moment for families across Lynchburg, and we handle the ladders, the timers, the tangled strands and the January takedown so you don’t have to.
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Holiday Light Installation in Lynchburg, Virginia
Professional Christmas light installation in Lynchburg starts with someone standing in your driveway with a tape measure, not a call center script. Lights Around designs, installs, services, takes down and stores holiday lighting across the city, from the slate-roofed Victorians on Daniel’s Hill to the newer builds out toward Forest and Timberlake. Every strand we hang is commercial-grade LED, fixed with clips matched to your roof type rather than staples or nails.
Residential rooflines start at $940, and all four tiers are listed on our Christmas light packages and pricing page, so you can see the number before anyone comes out. Takedown and storage are in every quote. There is no January removal bill.
We run a dedicated Lynchburg route from early November, which is what makes in-season service a promise: if a strand goes dark in the second week of December, you call (434) 333-6445 and a truck comes back. Most seasons the route fills before Thanksgiving, so September and October are the time to call. If you would rather light the house once and be done with ladders, our permanent roofline lighting covers Christmas, Halloween, game days and the Fourth of July from a single install.
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What Professional Christmas Light Installation in Lynchburg Actually Buys You
Most people arrive here having searched outdoor Christmas light installation near me, and the phrase gets used loosely enough that it is worth saying what we mean by it. Professional Christmas light installation in Lynchburg means commercial-grade C9 and mini-light stock that we own, store and replace, rather than big-box strands bought new each season; roof-specific clips instead of staples, nails or adhesive; an insured crew working to fall-protection standards on houses that run two and a half stories through the older parts of the city; and a timer set to your hours, so nothing is burning at three in the morning. It also means the ladder is ours. Homeowner falls climb sharply between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, and a rented extension ladder on wet slate in a Lynchburg December is the worst version of that statistic.
The difference shows up in January as much as in December. A DIY display ends with a Saturday on the roof and a bin in the garage. Ours ends with a crew pulling everything down, labeling it by elevation and storing it in our warehouse until the following November. Takedown and storage sit inside the quoted price, not as the $100 to $400 removal line most companies in Central Virginia add once the season is over. If you are weighing us against doing it yourself, the five reasons we would give any homeowner for hiring an installer are set out at length elsewhere, and none of them is “because it looks nicer”. What each tier covers, from the Elf package at up to 75 feet of roofline through to the North Pole package at 400 feet, is laid out on the Christmas light packages page, and if you would rather hear it from someone on your street than from us, the reviews are worth five minutes before you book.
What Happens Between Your Call and the First Night It Is Lit
Most people call us in September with nothing more specific than “the roofline, I think.” That is a fine place to start. Here is the order everything happens in, so none of it is a surprise.
Someone walks your property before we quote a number
A designer comes out, measures your roofline in feet, counts the gables and peaks, and looks at what your roof is actually made of. Slate, standing seam metal, asphalt and copper each take a different clip, and we would rather learn that in October than discover it on a ladder in November. You end that visit with a written number and a package tier, not a range and a promise to call back. All four residential tiers are published on the Christmas light packages page, from the Elf package at up to 75 feet of roofline through Rudolph and Santa to the North Pole package at up to 400 feet.
Your display is built to your measurements before install day
We cut, clip and test every strand to the numbers from your walk-through during the fall, so install day is hanging, not problem-solving. It is also why the calendar matters: the pre-build work is what fills September and October, and it is the reason Lynchburg dates are usually gone before Thanksgiving.
We install on a Lynchburg route from early November
Crews run Lynchburg on a scheduled route rather than one-off trips, which is how we keep drive time out of your quote. You do not need to be home. Nothing gets stapled, nailed or screwed into your roof, siding or trim, and nothing goes into a slate or standing seam surface at all.
If something fails, you call us, not a ladder rental counter
In-season service is part of every package. A dark section in the third week of December is our problem to fix, not yours to climb toward.
We take it all down in January and store it until next year
Takedown and storage are inside the quote, not billed later. More on why that matters in the section below.
Takedown and Storage Are in the Price, Not Added in January
The part of holiday lighting nobody thinks about in October is the part they resent in January: the cold Saturday spent pulling clips off a wet roof, and the tangle of strands that goes into a garage bin and comes out unusable next November.
We take everything down after the season, and we store your display through the year so it is ready to go back up on the same measurements. Both are inside the number you were quoted. Removal is commonly billed as a separate $100 to $400 charge in this market, and it is worth asking any installer you are comparing us against whether their quote includes it, because ours does. It also means the product stays ours to maintain: strands that come back damaged get replaced rather than patched, which is the reason a display in its fourth season with us looks like a display in its first.
If you would rather not repeat the cycle at all, that is the argument for permanent roofline lighting, covered further down.
Lighting Lynchburg's Historic Homes: Guidelines, Codes & Safety
Lynchburg isn’t a city where you can staple lights to anything and hope. The City recognizes eight local historic districts — Court House Hill, Daniel’s Hill, Diamond Hill, Garland Hill, Federal Hill, Rivermont, Pierce Street Renaissance, and Virginia University of Lynchburg — and several of the neighborhoods we serve most often sit squarely inside them.
For most seasonal displays that’s not an obstacle, because temporary decorations generally don’t alter a structure. But permanent installations are a different conversation. If you’re considering year-round roofline lighting on a contributing property, work that affects the exterior may require review through the City’s Certificate of Appropriateness process, administered by the Historic Preservation Commission. We’ve walked homeowners through it before, and we’ll tell you honestly at the design stage whether your project is likely to need it. Several Lynchburg districts also carry state and national listings through the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
Why we don't let homeowners do this themselves
Holiday lighting is the leading seasonal cause of preventable home fires. The U.S. Fire Administration notes that nearly one-third of home Christmas tree fires start with an electrical problem, and its guidance is blunt about the basics inspect every strand before it goes up, discard anything with frayed or pinched wire, and never exceed the manufacturer’s limit on connected strands. Those are the rules our crews follow on every job, and it’s why we replace rather than repair damaged product.
The other half of the risk is the ladder. Falls from height are among the most common serious injuries in exterior work, and OSHA’s fall protection standards exist precisely because rooflines in December wet, pitched, often slate or standing seam on Lynchburg’s older homes are unforgiving. Our installers are trained, equipped and insured for that work. It is the single best argument for hiring this out.
Power, Timers and Century-Old Wiring
The question we get most on the second visit is whether the house can take it. Usually yes, and usually with less capacity than people expect, because LED strands draw a fraction of what the incandescent sets in the attic drew.
The practical constraints on a Lynchburg home are outlet placement and circuit sharing, not total load. Older homes on Daniel’s Hill and Rivermont often have one exterior outlet on the front of the house, sometimes on the same circuit as the porch light and an interior room. We map that during the design walk, split the display across what is available, and tell you if an electrician needs to add an exterior GFCI outlet before install. That is a conversation to have in October, not the week before Thanksgiving.
Everything runs on a timer set to your hours, typically dusk to around 11pm, so the display is not on at 3am costing you money. Because every bulb we hang is LED, a full roofline plus trees adds a noticeable but modest amount to a December bill rather than the number people remember from the 1990s. ENERGY STAR certified light strings use roughly 92% less energy than incandescent strands and last up to ten times longer, and they run cool to the touch, which matters on dry greenery and 120-year-old porch trim.
Permanent Christmas & Architectural Lighting in Lynchburg
Permanent lighting is a set of LED channels mounted along your roofline once and left in place. You control it from your phone: warm white for December, orange for Halloween, red, white and blue for the Fourth, and your team’s colors on game day. From the street, the channels mostly disappear during the day.
Our permanent lighting line covers year-round roofline lighting, light bars for porches and soffits, and color-changing C9 roof lights from about $1,750 for up to 100 feet. On a contributing property in one of Lynchburg’s historic districts, a permanent install may need a Certificate of Appropriateness. We tell you at the design walk whether yours will, and we handle that conversation with the City for you.
Wrapped Trees, Which Is What Lynchburg Streets Are Actually Built For
Half the houses we light in Lynchburg would look better with the trees done than the roof. Rivermont Avenue, Boonsboro and the older stretches of Garland Hill have mature street trees that were planted a century before anyone was hanging LEDs on them, and a single wrapped trunk on a front lawn reads further down the street than a whole roofline does.
Pricing follows the tree, not the hour. Small ornamentals and Japanese maples fall at the bottom of the range with small tree wraps, while medium and large tree wraps cover most front-yard maples and oaks. For the big ones, and Lynchburg has plenty, we run wraps up to 24 feet and up to 30 feet on a lift. If the canopy is out of reach but the trunk is the feature, trunk wraps on medium trees give you most of the effect for a fraction of the strand count.
A note we give everyone: wrapping is a labor line, not a materials line. A 30-foot oak takes a crew, a lift and most of a morning, which is why the quote moves with height and branch structure rather than with a flat per-tree rate. We measure yours on the design walk and tell you what each tree costs before you commit to any of them.
The Details That Finish a Front Entry
A roofline outlines the house. What people actually see when they walk up to your door is everything between the mailbox and the porch light, and it is the cheapest part of a display to get right.
Christmas wreaths come in 24, 36 and 48 inch sizes, sized to the door or the gable rather than ordered by default. Lit garland runs along porch rails and door surrounds, and it is the single most requested add-on on Rivermont and Garland Hill because the porches there were built for it. Pillar light wraps go around columns and gate posts at 10 inches wide and 8 feet tall, in warm white, cool white, pure white, blue, green or ruby red, with install and removal included. Out in the beds, shrub lights and ground lights carry the display down to eye level so the front of the property does not go dark below the porch rail.
Most of this sits between $75 and $400 per element. It is usually what people add in year two after seeing the roofline alone, and it is worth pricing in year one.
Commercial & Corporate Holiday Lighting in Lynchburg
Commercial work runs on a different clock than residential. Property managers need a certificate of insurance before anyone sets foot on site, an install window that does not run through trading hours, and a crew that can be back on the property inside a day when something fails in the busiest retail month of the year.
We light retail centers, office parks, hotels, campuses, civic buildings and HOA common areas across the Lynchburg area, from one illuminated entrance through to a full program. On the Wards Road corridor that usually means facade and roofline outlining sized to be read from the road at 45 miles an hour. Downtown and along the Bluffwalk it tends to be the opposite problem: brick, iron and a pedestrian sightline of about 20 feet, where restraint does more than volume. For the larger properties we run Christmas tower trees from 12 to 52 feet, giant light displays, light curtains and tunnel light structures. The full range is on the commercial lighting page, and the complete inventory has everything we carry.
Hosting rather than decorating? We also do wedding lighting and event and party lighting at venues around Lynchburg and Bedford County, including bistro canopies, uplighting and dance floor washes. That work runs year-round, which is worth knowing if you are booking a spring wedding rather than a December gala.
Lynchburg Neighborhoods and Nearby Towns We Light
If you are within about twenty-five minutes of downtown, a crew is on your street most weeks in November anyway. Adding your house to an existing route day is the cheapest way for us to quote it.
Christmas Light Installation in Rivermont, Daniel’s Hill and the Historic Districts
Rivermont, Daniel’s Hill, Court House Hill, Diamond Hill, Federal Hill, Garland Hill and Pierce Street Renaissance are full of slate roofs, tall gables and wide porches. We use slate-safe clips here, never nails or staples. Big porches suit pillar light wraps and lit garland, and the mature street trees are made for tree wraps. Most of these homes land on the Santa package.
Christmas Light Installation in Boonsboro, Wyndhurst and Fort Hill
Boonsboro has some of the longest rooflines in the city, so the North Pole package (up to 400 ft) is common there. Wyndhurst and Fort Hill homes are usually a fit for the Rudolph package (up to 175 ft). HOA common areas and entrances in these neighborhoods can be quoted with our commercial lighting.
Christmas Light Installation in Forest and Timberlake
Forest and Timberlake are on the same route as the city, so there is no extra drive charge. Newer two-story homes and ranch homes here often start with the Elf package (up to 75 ft) or Rudolph.
Christmas Light Installation in Madison Heights, Amherst and Evington
Across the James in Madison Heights and Amherst, and south in Evington, we run the same packages and the same in-season service. If a strand goes dark, a truck comes back. Permanent roofline lighting is popular out here with homeowners who want to skip the ladder every year.
Christmas Light Installation in Bedford County
Bedford County properties tend to be larger, with long driveways and big trees. We often light the driveway entrance and the big front-yard trees with ground lights and tree wraps, not just the roof. Estates are priced on site after a walk-through.
Properties further north sit on different schedules. Charlottesville runs as its own route, and the full service-area map shows everywhere else we send crews.
Why Lynchburg Homeowners Choose Lights Around
We Know Lynchburg
Lynchburg is a dedicated route for us every season. We know the neighborhoods, the hills and the historic districts, and we take pride in making the Hill City sparkle.
Steep Roofs & Historic Rules
We work safely on steep slopes and older homes, and we follow the guidelines in districts like Court House Hill and Daniel’s Hill, plus any HOA rules.
Full Service, Start to Finish
Design, install, fixes during the season, takedown and storage. You never climb a ladder or untangle a cord.
Designed for Your Home
Every display is planned around your home’s shape and your taste: classic warm white, multicolor, or a mix of both.
Commercial-Grade LEDs
Commercial-grade LEDs, secure connections and professional install methods keep your display safe, bright and low on power all season.
Homes to Business Districts
From one townhome to whole subdivisions, business districts and corporate campuses. Clear updates, on-time crews and respectful service on every job.
Get a Free Lynchburg Holiday Lighting Quote
Every property is unique and we can help you make it shine. Contact Lights Around for a free consultation. We’ll walk your property, discuss your vision and create a plan that fits your budget and timeline. You’ll receive a clear quote with no hidden fees, and scheduling is flexible to fit around your busy life.
Lynchburg Christmas, Holiday & Event Light Installation FAQs
How much does Christmas light installation cost in Lynchburg?
Residential roofline packages start at $940 and run to about $3,200 for large multi-gable homes. Tree wrapping is $150–$1,475 by height. Full package details are here, and every quote includes takedown and storage.
When should I book?
September and October. We design and pre-build through the fall and install on a scheduled route from early November, and Lynchburg dates fill before Thanksgiving most years. If you’re reading this in December, call anyway. We sometimes have cancellations.
Do you install on steep or slate roofs?
Yes. Lynchburg’s hills are full of steep-pitch slate and standing-seam metal, and our crews are trained and equipped for it. We use clips designed for the roof type, never staples, nails or anything that penetrates roofing material.
Can you work on a home in a historic district?
We do it every season in Daniel’s Hill, Court House Hill and Diamond Hill. Seasonal displays are typically straightforward; permanent installations on contributing properties may need review through the City’s Certificate of Appropriateness process. We’ll flag it during design.
What happens if a bulb or strand fails in December?
Call us and we’ll come out. In-season maintenance is included in every Lynchburg package. You shouldn’t be on a ladder in a December sleet storm, and neither should your display be dark.
Do you serve Forest, Timberlake and Bedford County?
Yes. Our Lynchburg route covers Forest, Timberlake, Madison Heights, Amherst, Evington and Bedford County, plus Rivermont, Boonsboro, Wyndhurst, Fort Hill and the historic districts inside the city. If you’re within about 25 minutes of downtown Lynchburg, a crew is almost certainly on your street already. Call (434) 333-6445.
