Holiday Light InstallationIn Greater Vancouver
Layout planned with you, installed on commercial-grade LED, kept working through the season and taken down in January — none of it from the top of your own ladder.
Our Service
The Hard Part Was Never the Lights
Anyone can buy a box of lights. The job is a wet gutter in November, a clip that has to hold through a coastal windstorm, and a cable run that reaches a switched outlet without crossing a walkway. We measure the elevation and cut every run to length, clip to the shingle edge or gutter lip — nothing stapled into your fascia — and put the scheme on a GFCI circuit and a timer before we leave.
What's Included
Roofline, gable and eave runs
The line that defines the house from the street, and the one that has to be dead straight to look like anything. Runs are measured to each elevation and cut to length, clipped at consistent spacing along the shingle edge or gutter lip, and set so the bulbs face the road. Peaks, dormers and gable ends take the time.
Porches, columns, railings and doorways
The close-range work people walk past, where spacing and neatness show. Columns are wrapped at an even pitch, railings run cleanly along their length, and doorways and wreaths are lit without a cord looping across the entry. Cables route under a step, never over it.
Trees, shrubs and garden lighting
What stops a scheme reading as a single flat line across the front of the house. Trunks and limbs are wrapped from the base outwards, shrubs are net-lit or draped depending on shape, and pathway and bed lighting fills the ground level. A mature conifer will do more for a frontage than another string on the roof.
Layout design and power routing
Before anything is ordered we measure the elevations, count the runs and find where the power actually is. That sets circuit loading, cord routing and whether a timer or a photocell suits. It is also where the design happens — warm white or colour, C9 or mini, roofline only or full frontage — and you agree it first.
In-season repairs and replacements
Included, not chargeable. A dropped section, a failed run, a clip lost to an atmospheric river in the second week of December — we come back and fix it, in the weather it broke in. Everything on a Greater Vancouver roofline in winter is being tested by wind and water for six straight weeks.
January takedown and labelled storage
Booked at the same time as the install, so it is not something you have to arrange in January. Everything comes down, gets coiled by run and labelled with where it goes, and is boxed for next year — and the clips come off the roofline with it. Where storage is part of the agreement, your bins go with us.
Why Choose RainCity?
Holiday lighting is electrical work at height in the worst weather of the year, done to a deadline that does not move. That is the entire argument for not doing it off your own ladder, and it is also the reason to check that whoever does it for you is properly covered before they are standing on your gutter. We are — and everything else here is the same arrangement we offer on any other RainCity job.
Get a Free QuoteLicensed and insured for work at height
Based in New Westminster, installing region-wide
Family homes, strata frontages and commercial premises
Free design visit and a quote before you commit
Anything that fails in season, we come back and fix
What to Expect
What This Work Looks Like
Example photographs of this kind of work, not RainCity jobs. Photos from our own projects on this service are being added.
How It Works
Our Simple Three-Step Process
Request a Free Quote
Call or send the form. We take the details, and price the property in front of us rather than reading off a rate card.
We Schedule & Arrive
We book a slot that suits you and turn up in it, with everything the job needs already on the truck.
Enjoy the Results
We walk the finished work with you before we leave, and put right anything that isn't up to standard.
Where We Work
This Work, Across Greater Vancouver
Everything comes off the truck — water, pressure, detergent and power — so the kit that reaches a strata lot in Surrey is the one that reaches an acreage in Anmore. Pick your community and the page will tell you what the work looks like there.
Anmore
Large treed lots above Port Moody, where the gutters fill with needles long before the leaves start.
Burnaby
Towers, townhouse complexes and single-family streets — a good deal of our strata common-area work sits here.
Delta
Ladner, Tsawwassen and North Delta: flat, open and close to the water, which is hard on painted siding.
Langley
The Township and the City both. Bigger lots, longer driveways, and surfaces that take a full season of weather.
New Westminster
Home. Heritage houses on the hill and a steep grid of streets — we know which ones the truck can park on.
Ridge Meadow
Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, out where the rain sits longest and a north-facing roof greens over fastest.
Surrey
The largest area we cover, Cloverdale down to South Surrey, and no shortage of commercial ground to keep sealed.
Tri-Cities
Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody. Hillside subdivisions, and hard surfaces that want the moss off every spring.
Vancouver
Character houses, laneways and mid-rise strata. Access is tight, so the water-fed pole earns its keep.
Often Booked Together
While We Are Already There
These are the jobs that go with this one, and the reason is nearly always the setup: the ladder, the truck or the dried surface is already where it needs to be. Worth knowing before a second visit is booked for something the first one was already set up for.
Request a Free Quote
Tell us what needs doing and we’ll come back with a price. Prefer to talk? +1 604 209 3357.
Based in New Westminster, serving Greater Vancouver.
Common Questions
Questions We Get Asked
The things people actually ask before booking, answered the way we would answer them on the phone. If yours is not here, call — you will get a straight answer from someone who does the work.
Book from September, and expect installation from early November onwards. The season is short and weather-dependent, so the calendar fills from the top down and the last two weeks of November are usually gone by the middle of October. Existing customers are scheduled first. Booking early also means the design visit happens in daylight and reasonable weather, which makes for a better scheme.
We normally supply, because commercial-grade LED on all-copper wire survives a coastal winter and big-box retail strings largely do not — and because runs cut to your elevations look completely different from strings joined end to end. If you already have quality product we will happily install it, though we cannot warrant how it performs and mid-season failures on customer-supplied lights are chargeable.
With purpose-made clips that grip the shingle edge, the gutter lip or the railing. Nothing is stapled, nailed or screwed into fascia, siding or shingle, all of which puncture the building envelope and cause exactly the leak they look harmless enough to cause. Clips come off completely at takedown, so nothing is left on the roofline over the summer either.
Call us and we come out and repair it at no charge, and that cover runs for the whole season. It is part of the installation rather than an add-on. Coastal windstorms and heavy rain do take sections down occasionally, which is precisely why the service is included — a scheme that goes dark on the fifteenth and stays dark is not what you paid for.
Takedown is quoted with the install and scheduled at the same time, normally through January, so it is not a decision you have to make in the new year. Everything is coiled, labelled by run and boxed. Off-season storage is available as an option — your product goes with us and comes back for the next install — which is worth having if the alternative is a garage shelf you would rather use for something else.
Yes: strata frontages, common entrances, townhouse complexes, retail units and office buildings, alongside residential work. Commercial schemes tend to be booked earliest because they involve a council or a management decision and often a larger design. Insurance certificates and any site documentation go to your manager on request, and access and out-of-hours work are agreed before install day.