Price a holiday light install by the roofline foot. Enter the run, pick the stories and whose lights, set your rate — one seasonal price, takedown built in.
That's the hard part done. SideWRK runs the rest from your phone: text the estimate, your customer taps approve, and the money hits — card, Apple Pay, Venmo, Cash App, or Zelle, no merchant account, no three-percent bite. It keeps a line on who still owes you, logs every material and cost so your real profit and your tax write-offs tally themselves, and stands up a free website with reviews that feeds you the next job. A free estimate today, or your whole operation in one app. Built for seasonal lighting and every trade.
Holiday lighting money is made in a ten-week sprint, so price it like a season, not a day. Measure the roofline — walk the eaves or trace them on a satellite map — and set a per-foot rate that covers commercial-grade lights, clips, the install, and the January takedown. Multiply for height, knock it down when the customer supplies their own strands, and bill trees, wreaths, and Halloween decor per item on top. A real job minimum keeps the tiny jobs from eating your October. Takedown of lights you hung is part of your price; standalone takedown and storage of lights someone else installed is its own job — typically $150–$300.
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