Permanent Christmas lights in Albuquerque
Put them up once. Then every December you open an app, tap red and green, and go back to what you were doing. On the twenty-sixth you tap warm white and the season is over. No ladder, no cold, no box of tangled strands.
The November you are trying to avoid
There is a specific weekend every year, usually the one after Thanksgiving, when a large share of this city is on a ladder. Somebody is holding the base. Somebody else is inside being asked whether it looks straight. A third of the strand from last year does not light and nobody can find the spare fuses.
By the time it is up it is dark, everyone is cold, and the gap over the garage that bothered you last year is still there because getting to it means moving the ladder onto gravel.
Then on some grim Saturday in January you do it in reverse, and put a box of wire in the garage where a New Mexico summer will spend eight months making it brittle for next time.
You can just stop doing this. One install, and December becomes a decision rather than a project.
What Christmas looks like once it is in
The first of December arrives. You are on the sofa. You open the app, pick the scene you saved last year, and the roofline goes red and green, or warm white, or amber, or whatever your household negotiated. You set it to come on at dusk and switch off at eleven, and then you do not think about it again.
If it snows, nothing happens to it. If the wind gets up over the Sandias, nothing happens to it. If a point fails, you call us and we replace the point rather than you replacing the strand. And on December 26, one tap and the house is back to its everyday warm white.
Against paying for seasonal install every year
Plenty of Albuquerque homeowners have already stopped doing the ladder themselves and pay a crew each November instead. That is a perfectly sane choice, and it is the honest thing to compare against, because it is the same money in a different shape.
Seasonal install is a bill every single year, forever, and it goes up. It also means booking a slot in the one month everybody wants one, having someone on your roof twice a season, and starting again from zero every autumn. Permanent lighting is one larger bill and then essentially nothing, and it gets used for the other eleven months as well. Somewhere in the middle those two lines cross. Where exactly depends on your house and what you currently pay. The cost page walks through it.
Book before everyone else does
Autumn is genuinely the constraint on this business. Between the first cold week and Thanksgiving, more people want permanent Christmas lighting in Albuquerque than any single owner-operated crew can install, and the calendar closes. If you want it lit for this Christmas, the useful move is to get the free measure booked well before then, so you are holding a slot rather than hoping for one.
Send the form and we will come and measure the house. If we cannot fit you in this season we will say so plainly rather than take a deposit and hope.
Scenes people actually set at Christmas
You are not locked into one look. These are the ones we get asked to program most often when we hand the app over at the end of an install.
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Classic
Warm white, everywhere
The most-installed Christmas setting in Albuquerque, by a distance. Reads as tasteful rather than festive, and it is the one that stays up happily until Epiphany.
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Traditional
Red and green alternating
What most people picture when they say Christmas lights. Set the pattern once, save it, and it comes back every year on the day you want it.
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New Mexican
Farolito amber
Warm amber at low brightness along a parapet line. Not a substitute for the real thing on Christmas Eve, but a very good everyday-December version of it.
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For the kids
Slow color chase
A gentle animated pattern rather than the frantic flashing everybody regrets. Good for the run-up to Christmas, easily switched off when the relatives arrive.
Everything above is also available in January, June and any other month you feel like it, see the rest of the year.
The seasonal calendar, plainly
We would rather you booked early and were happy than booked late and were disappointed, so here is the real timetable.
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Summer into early autumn: the quiet, sensible window
Estimates are easy to book, install dates are wide open, and you are choosing your date rather than taking what is left. If you know you want this for Christmas, this is when to sort it.
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October: the last comfortable month
Still workable, and you get the bonus of having it running for Balloon Fiesta and Halloween before Christmas even arrives. The calendar starts filling in properly during this month.
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November: the crush
This is when most people call, and it is when we start having to turn work away. We will always tell you honestly whether a slot exists rather than stringing you along.
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December and January: next year, and that is fine
Booking in the season is usually booking for next season. The upside is a relaxed install in the spring, warm white all year, and a December where you genuinely do nothing.
Christmas questions we get asked every autumn
For hardware detail see how it works; for pricing see what it costs.
When should I book to have it up for Christmas?
Earlier than you think. Everyone in Albuquerque decides they want this in the second week of November, which is the one time of year we cannot take everybody. If Christmas is the goal, get the estimate booked in late summer or early autumn and the install lands comfortably before Thanksgiving. Booking in December means we are almost certainly talking about next year.
Can it do warm white instead of colored lights?
Yes, and a lot of people prefer it. Warm white on the roofline with a wreath on the door is a very Albuquerque look and it is the most requested Christmas setting we install. You can also run warm white on the main roofline and color on the entry only, which is a good compromise in a household that disagrees.
Can I do the farolito look?
You can get close, and it is the single most asked-for scene in this city. A warm amber setting at low brightness along a parapet reads very much like a roofline of luminarias from the street, and it does it on Christmas Eve without eighty paper bags, sand and a lighter in the wind. It is not identical, and nothing beats real candlelight up close, but it is the version that is still lit at 11pm and has not blown over.
What about the takedown?
There is not one. That is the entire product. On December 26 you open the app and put it back to warm white, and that is the whole job. No January weekend, no storage box, no rehiring anyone.
Is it cheaper than paying someone every year?
Not in year one. It costs more up front, and anybody telling you otherwise is selling. It becomes cheaper somewhere in the middle of the comparison depending on what you currently pay for seasonal install and takedown, and after that it keeps not costing you anything. The cost page runs through that maths honestly.
Will it look like Christmas lights in July?
No. Switched off during the day the track reads as trim, and switched to warm white at night it reads as architectural lighting. The outdoor lighting page has dusk photos showing how little there is to see when it is off.
Can I put lights on the tree in the yard too?
The permanent system is for the building: roofline, eaves, entry, parapets. Trees, shrubs and the wreath are still yours to do, and most people carry on doing them. The point is that the part requiring a ladder and a nervous spouse holding it is now permanent.
Get it booked before the autumn rush
Tell us about the house and we will come and measure it. If we cannot fit you in this season, we will tell you straight away rather than take your money and hope.
- Backed by a 15-year warranty.
- Albuquerque metro only. We are not a franchise routing you to a subcontractor.
- Every estimate is measured on site, in person, before you get a number.
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