Permanent Christmas Lights in Fort Collins, CO — Prices Shown, No Installer Here Yet

What it costs in Fort Collins — kit prices, pulled live

These are the same numbers on my product pages, read from the store when this page was built (September 12, 2026). Nobody else on the first page of Google prints a price; I'd rather you have the number before you give anyone your phone number.

Every roofline kit includes the aluminum track, RGBW strands, the pitch-matched TrueCenter Apex Track peak, a 600 W power supply, the 4-zone controller, color-matched hardware and the install guide. Roof pitch (4/12, 6/12, 9/12, 12/12) and track color are chosen at checkout.

What the whole job runs — so the kit price isn't the whole story

I don't set your installer's price. I do publish what the market does, and I'd rather you see it here than be surprised by it on a quote.

Professionally installed permanent Christmas lights run $20–$40 per linear foot in 2026, with most quotes between $25 and $35, and an average home with 100–150 feet of front roofline landing around $3,000–$5,000 installed. Source: IronPeak Field Guide — Permanent Christmas Lights Cost Per Foot (2026), which cites HomeGuide 2026 for the $20–$40 per foot range, fetched September 7, 2026.

The kit above is the material part of that number. The rest is labor, ladders, insurance, the time to measure and lay out your roofline, and somebody standing behind the work once it's on your house. A quote well above the kit price is not a markup on parts — it's the part of the job I can't do from Fort Collins.

What the installer adds, and why I don't quote it

Labor. The installer measures your roofline, picks the pitch and color, mounts the track, and stands behind the work on your roof. That price depends on your house — stories, gables, access, how many peaks — and he sets it, not me. The range above is a national figure, not a Fort Collins one. I print it so a quote doesn't surprise you, not to tell an installer what to charge.

Who installs it here

Nobody has paid to appear on this page, and nobody can. Installers get listed here once they carry my track, for the area they actually serve. Fort Collins has none yet.

Fort Collins' population is 170,927 (American Community Survey 2024 1-year estimate). Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2024 1-year (table B01003) via Census Reporter API (geo 16000US0827425), fetched September 9, 2026.

Get on the Fort Collins list

Your request sits with me, not in a marketing sequence. I contact you the day an installer signs on here.

Why the peak looks right — and how it goes on a Fort Collins roofline

Most systems start at the gutter and work up, so spacing errors pile up at the peak — the one spot everyone looks at from the street. The TrueCenter Apex Track is a one-piece, pitch-matched peak that goes on first, so the lights center on your ridge and the run works outward symmetrically. It's patent-pending, it ships in your track color, and it goes up in under 5 minutes instead of 25-plus minutes of cutting on a ladder.

1. Measure and quote. Your installer measures the roofline, matches the track color to your fascia and soffit, and quotes labor on top of the kit price above.
2. Peak first. The Apex Track matched to your pitch — 4/12, 6/12, 9/12 or 12/12 — is fastened at the ridge with its center node dead on the apex. Under 5 minutes.
3. Track outward. 1-meter sections of 6063-T6 aluminum are screwed to the fascia both directions from the peak. Strands plug together with factory-terminated waterproof connectors — no cutting, no splicing on the roof.
4. One box, one power connection. The 600 W supply and 4-zone controller share one enclosure. The app goes on your phone and the schedule gets set for Fort Collins, not a factory default.

30-Day Perfect Peak Guarantee — From our product pages: “If any Apex peak doesn't sit true and symmetrical out of the box, we replace it free and cover the shipping — no hassle.”

What you control from your phone

One controller, four independent zones, an app on your phone. Christmas is Christmas, and the rest of the year the house reads as plain warm white, or off.

• Colors. RGBW nodes — red, green, blue and a true 2800K warm white — so Christmas is Christmas and the rest of the year the house reads as plain warm white, or off.
• Zones. Four independent outputs with their own node counts and animations; the front can run a scene while the back stays white.
• Schedules and scenes. Timers, presets and saved scenes over WiFi or Bluetooth. Tap once for Thanksgiving, once more for game day.
• Brightness. Dimmable. I don't publish a brightness rating.

Set the on-time for Fort Collins' own sunset, because it comes early here in December:

Fort Collins sunset is 4:35 p.m. on December 1 and 4:38 p.m. on December 21. Source: sunrise-sunset.org solar calculator, fetched September 9, 2026.

Built for Fort Collins weather

Thirty freezing nights in December, high-altitude sun the rest of the year, and a dry cold that is hard on anything brittle.

Fort Collins' normal December brings 7.5 inches of snow and January 6.7, on 0.47 and 0.41 inches of total precipitation (1991-2020 normals). Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 Normals (station USC00053005), fetched September 9, 2026.

Fort Collins has 77,858 housing units, 50.7% of them single-family detached; the median owner-occupied home is worth $612,600 and the median home was built in 1992 (ACS 2024 1-year). Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2024 1-year (B25001, B25024, B25035, B25077) via Census Reporter API, fetched September 9, 2026.

What that means for the hardware

• Water: every LED node is encapsulated in UV-stabilized polyurethane, which flexes through freeze-thaw instead of cracking like epoxy, and every connector is factory-terminated and waterproof — zero field splices, so there is no gel-filled joint to fail in a wet December.
• Power: the whole run is low-voltage 24 V DC from one 600 W supply with multi-layer surge protection built in.
• Wind: the 6063-T6 aluminum track is screwed to the fascia, not clipped or glued, and the wire is 18 AWG UV-resistant three-conductor — heavier than the 20 AWG most systems ship.
• Sun: The track is up through Fort Collins' summer too; the UV-stabilized encapsulation and the powder-coated track are there for July as much as for December.

What it looks like in daylight

You see the track, not the lights. It sits under the roofline in 1-meter powder-coated sections and comes in four colors so it matches the fascia or soffit instead of announcing itself.

• Matte Black — dark trim.
• White — white fascia and vinyl soffit.
• Oyster White — cream and off-white trim.
• Brown — brown fascia, cedar and darker brick.

You pick the color against your trim at checkout. Availability varies by color and pitch.

When Fort Collins expects the lights on

The season here has a hard edge. Frost alone doesn't stop an install, but ice on the roof edge does.

Fort Collins' normal December is a 44.0°F high and 18.3°F low, and January is 45.0°F/18.3°F (1991-2020 normals at Ft Collins). Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals (station USC00053005, FT COLLINS, CO US), fetched September 9, 2026.

Fort Collins averages 30.0 December nights and 29.3 January nights at or below 32°F (1991-2020 normals). Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 Normals (MLY-TMIN-AVGNDS-LSTH032, station USC00053005), fetched September 9, 2026.

When I ask an installer to take on Fort Collins, I show them how many people are on this list — the count, not your details.

What to hand your HOA

In Colorado your recorded covenants are what govern your exterior. I am not aware of any Colorado statute that carves out holiday lighting — CCIOA's display protection covers religious items on an entry door, not lights — so read your covenants before you order.

If you do need approval, get the request in before the install date, not after. What to attach:

• The track color you're using, against a photo of your trim (the four colors are above).
• One sentence that the fixture is a low-profile aluminum track mounted under the roofline, with no exposed bulbs or wire.
• Your schedule: what hours it runs, and that outside the holidays it's warm white or off.

What it adds to your power bill

Two competitors print a monthly dollar figure with no source. Here is the arithmetic so you can check mine.

kWh per month = nodes × 0.96 W ÷ 1000 × hours per night × nights. 0.96 W is the maximum draw per node from my spec sheet; a node is one puck, spaced one per foot.

Example: a 100 ft kit carries 100 nodes. 100 × 0.96 W = 96 W. Six hours a night for a month: 0.096 kW × 180 h = 17.28 kWh. At Colorado's June 2026 average residential price of 17.13 cents a kilowatt hour that is about $2.96 a month — at full white, every node, every night. Colors and dimming draw less; your actual tariff and riders may differ.

Colorado homes paid an average of 17.13 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity in June 2026 (EIA). Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly Table 5.6.A, fetched September 9, 2026.

The one maintenance task

Nothing comes down in January and nothing goes in the attic. The one job left is a rinse when the season's grime washes off — from the ground, with a hose.

Start with the front, add the rest later

The controller has four independent zones. I'd start with zones 1 and 2 on the front roofline and add the gables, sides or the second story on zones 3 and 4 later — even a year later — with a 25 ft add-on ($299) or a 50 ft add-on ($499). Same power supply, same controller, nothing re-mapped. The add-on is the same track and the same nodes at the same spacing, so the join is invisible.

The warranty, word for word

From our product pages:

30-Day Perfect Peak Guarantee — “If any Apex peak doesn't sit true and symmetrical out of the box, we replace it free and cover the shipping — no hassle.”

5-Year Product Warranty — “The components — LED strands, controller, and power supply — are covered against product defects for 5 years from purchase. (Normal weather wear-and-tear isn't a defect and isn't covered.)”

First-order money-back — “Your first 100 ft kit is backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee — return the material and your refund comes back as cash.”

The refund structure — what comes back as cash and what comes back as store credit — is on the returns and guarantee page, in full, rather than paraphrased here. Labor on your roof is the installer's to stand behind; the product is mine.

Fort Collins-area towns

When an installer signs on here, this is the area I'd expect them to cover — Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley and the towns between them.

From Fort Collins: Loveland 13.1, Greeley 22.4, Windsor 11.9, Timnath 6.4, Wellington 8.8, Berthoud 19.3 miles. Source: OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocoder; great-circle distances computed from returned coordinates, fetched September 9, 2026.

• TimnathNorthern Colorado — join the list for this area
• WellingtonNorthern Colorado — join the list for this area
• WindsorNorthern Colorado — join the list for this area
• LovelandNorthern Colorado — join the list for this area
• BerthoudNorthern Colorado — join the list for this area
• GreeleyNorthern Colorado — join the list for this area

These are Northern Colorado towns near the city, by straight-line distance. They are my list, not an installer's — there isn't one here yet. Towns outside this list still route to the list when the ZIP is in Colorado.

Questions Fort Collins homeowners ask