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About Kitchener Christmas Lights

A direct booking line for one vetted, insured holiday lighting installer working across Kitchener.

Kitchener Christmas Lights is a booking line. It is not a lighting company and does not claim to be one. The site exists so that a Kitchener homeowner, storefront or condo board that wants the house or building lit for the holidays, or wants permanent lighting fitted once and for all, gets to one vetted, insured local installer quickly, rather than filling in four forms and fielding calls from strangers.

In practice that means the work is done by a holiday lighting installer who carries liability insurance, works to Ontario's fall-protection rules above three metres, uses certified outdoor-rated product, hangs seasonal lights with clips and not nails or staples, quotes in writing after looking at the house, and is accountable for the display through the season. Your details are not sold to a list and you are not put into an auction.

The site covers seasonal Christmas light installation, permanent soffit lighting, tree and landscape lighting, January takedown and storage, and commercial holiday lighting. It does not do electrical work: a missing or unprotected outdoor outlet is a job for a licensed electrical contractor, and you will be told when one is needed.

The local facts on these pages were checked against the sources they cite: the City of Kitchener's heritage district and Christkindl pages, Enova Power and the Ontario Energy Board on electricity, the Electrical Safety Authority and Health Canada on holiday light safety, Environment Canada's climate normals, and Ontario's construction regulation. Where something is for the City to decide, such as whether a fixed track on a heritage house needs a permit, the site says so instead of guessing.

Some jobs are declined: roofs that cannot be worked safely, icy eaves in midwinter, trees tangled in overhead lines, and displays that would overload the circuits the house has.

How this works

When you call 289-276-8083 or send the form, your details go directly to the holiday lighting installer covering Kitchener, not to a list and not to a call centre. Calls go to voicemail when the crew is on a roof, which in November is most of the day, and your message reaches them at once by text and email. Expect a call back the same day or the next working day. The next step is a quick look at the house, or photos of the front and any trees you want lit; the written quote follows, naming the runs, the product, whether lights are supplied, and takedown and storage, so nothing is left to argue about.

What we won't do

• Publish reviews we didn't earn. When we have them, they'll be real ones with names.
• Quote a firm price before someone has seen the job.
• Send anyone into your property who we would not have in our own.