Cochrane’s best Christmas light installers

Bright West Holiday Lighting is a Christmas light installation company based in Cochrane, Alberta, working across Cochrane and Calgary, and it has been installing lights here since roughly 2022. It is the holiday lighting arm of Sure West Roofing, so it is the same owners, the same crew and the same trucks. The roofing side of the business has been on Cochrane roofs for longer, which is where the crew, the equipment and the safety training come from. The lighting business itself started around 2022, and we would rather say that plainly than round it up.

Bright West and Sure West Roofing are run by the same owners with the same crew, but they trade as separate businesses under their own names. Bright West is the holiday lighting arm of Sure West Roofing, and it has its own reviews. We never present Sure West Roofing reviews or credentials as Bright West's.

A Bright West install will not damage your roof, shingles or eavestroughs, because we use purpose-made clips designed for shingles, eavestroughs, brick and soffit, and never staples, nails or screws. Nothing is driven through your fascia. Being roofers is the reason. We repair the leaks a badly placed fastener causes, so we know exactly where one must never go.

The free roof inspection is a check of your shingles, flashing, eavestroughs and ice dam risk, carried out while the crew is up on your roof installing the lights, and there is no catch. Because the crew installing your lights are roofers who are already up there, they email you a written summary with photos afterwards. If your roof is fine, we say it is fine. It is included because we are already there, not to sell you a roof.

Bright West supplies the lights on every install: commercial-grade LED strands rated for Alberta winters, cut to fit your roofline exactly, with an automatic timer set up for you. You do not need to use your own. Retail strands are built to a fixed length and a price point, which is why they get stretched to fit and start failing in the first hard cold snap.

January takedown and summer storage are both included in the Bright West install price, so neither is something you have to book or chase separately. Removals run on a scheduled route from early January, and your strands then come back to our shop labelled by property and are stored free over the summer, ready to go straight back up the following November. Read more about Christmas light removal and takedown.

Bright West covers two areas from one base. Christmas light installation in Cochrane is the home service and the depot every crew runs out of. The Calgary Christmas light installation route takes in the northwest and west communities and the towns around them. Each neighbourhood is worked in one pass rather than criss-crossed over a fortnight.

Bright West carries $2 million general liability insurance and the crew is WCB covered, and in-season maintenance is free for most standard wear-and-tear issues. They work at height in proper fall-arrest gear because that is how they work the rest of the year on roofs. If something goes wrong on your property it is our coverage that answers for it, not your home insurance. Ask and we will send the certificates before you book.

Bright West installs Christmas lights for commercial properties as well as homes, covering storefronts, car dealerships, managed properties and multi-site portfolios through the season. Cochrane commercial Christmas light installation is scheduled around your trading hours rather than ours, runs through one point of contact across every site, and comes with consolidated invoicing. The January takedown is written into the same agreement, exactly as it is on a residential install.

To get a quote from Bright West, send your address and a rough idea of what you would like lit through the booking form, or call (403) 990-7210. We work out the linear footage, the height and the access, then come back with one fixed written price and no obligation. Installs run October to early December, and the last two weekends of November fill first every year.