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Permanent Lighting in Chaska, MN

We match the track to your own trim so it disappears by daylight, then set the brightness with you standing in the driveway. Free design consult.

  • Locally Owned & Operated
  • Insured & Bonded
  • 72-Hour Worry-Free Guarantee
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Insured & BondedCertificate on request
Method Before PressureMatched to your surface
Locally OwnedMinneapolis & St. Paul
72-Hour GuaranteeWe come back free
A two-story home at dusk with permanent lights along every roofline
The Wally's Way

Permanent Lighting in Chaska

Chaska really has two kinds of house, and lighting lands differently on each. The older places downtown are cream brick with painted wood trim, steep pitches and deep eaves. The newer developments are simple gables with wrapped aluminum or vinyl trim, on open lots with young landscaping.

We install the same system on both. What changes is the track color we match to, where the run lines sit, and how bright we set it, because a house with nothing in front of it reads from several streets away and a house under mature trees does not.

  • Our own Signature 48-volt system, built and installed by us
  • Track color-matched to your trim and screwed into the soffit
  • True 3000K warm white plus 16 million colors
  • A phone app with no monthly fee, set up before we leave
  • Lifetime warranty on the LEDs, 10 years on the system
Everyday Control

Control Everything From Your Phone

Our lights aren't one long strand stuck showing a single color. Each light is a separate pixel, so the app sets its color and brightness on its own. That's how one system gives you a quiet warm glow on a regular evening and a bold pattern for a big game.

Day to day, most people run true 3000K warm white, a soft golden white close to a household bulb, instead of the icy tint cheap LEDs give off. For color, every light is full RGBW: red, green and blue with its own white, which works out to 16 million options. Spacing is 10 inches on every home.

The system runs at 48 volts, which keeps power steady down the whole run. On a long, simple gable front or an older home with deep eaves, the corner farthest from the control box is just as bright as the corner nearest it.

The app talks to the system through Bluetooth and WiFi, and there's no monthly charge. Your sunset-to-sunrise schedule shifts with the seasons by itself. Save scenes for holidays, game days or when you're traveling, and control single lights where the layout allows. We get the app running on your phone before we go, and if your house sits on an open lot that's seen from blocks away, we'll help you settle on a brightness that looks good from there.

A Wally's technician switching scenes on a phone while the permanent lights on the house change to match

One tap, and the house changes color.

What It Looks Like at Noon

Invisible During the Day

The first thing people in Chaska ask us: will the house look decorated all year? No. On a sunny afternoon, most visitors have to be shown where the track is.

Our crew fastens a narrow track with screws to your soffit, which is the underside of the eave, set back in the shade of the roof edge. Your gutters and shingles stay untouched.

The track color follows your trim. We can match any trim color that carries an RAL code (the industry number that pins down an exact paint or trim color), whether that's painted wood on an older brick home or factory-finished wrap on a newer build. The control box stays in your garage.

Many newer homes here have no tall trees out front, so the house is on display from far off. In daylight, what people see is trim. Once the sun goes down, they see the lights you picked.

At dusk with the permanent lights off, the track under this home’s eaves is nearly invisible
That same house with its permanent lights on, warm white along each gable and eave
Lights OffLights On

Drag to flip the lights on. Same house, same dusk.

Permanent lights glowing pink, orange, green and blue along the rooflines of a two-story home at night
Coverage

Lifetime Warranty on Your Lighting

We put our coverage in writing at three levels, so the lights you see, the hardware behind them and the service work are all protected. And the install work itself falls under our 72-Hour Worry-Free Guarantee.

Lifetime

LEDs covered for life

Any manufacturing defect in the LEDs is covered for as long as you keep the system.

10 Years

A decade of hardware coverage

Ten years of protection on the track, power supply, controller and wiring that keep the lights running.

5 Years

5-year labor and materials coverage

Five years of included parts and labor, the service call too, with our local crew doing the work.

How It Works

Our Lighting Installation Process

We take it one step at a time, so the system is right from day one and you're running it yourself before our van pulls away.

  1. 1

    Free Consultation at Your House

    We measure your roofline, walk the house with you and talk about the looks you want. We match the track to your trim, painted wood or factory wrap, and check heights while we're there. You get a firm written quote before anything is ordered.

  2. 2

    Install Day

    We screw the track into your soffit along the eaves and gables, and bring a lift only when the house needs it. For power, the control box goes on a garage outlet, normally the ceiling outlet that also powers your garage door opener, so it stays up high and never has to be unplugged.

  3. 3

    App Setup on Your Phone

    Before we leave, we load the app onto your phone, save a few starter scenes and put in a sunset-to-sunrise schedule. Then you try dimming, changing colors and switching scenes while we're still there to help.

  4. 4

    Warranty and Nighttime Walkthrough

    We register your warranty and leave you the written terms. Once it's dark, we go through each scene together and make sure you're confident running it on your own.

Dusk view of a two-story home with its gables and eaves outlined in warm white light
Blue permanent lights tracing the peak of a gable at nightPink and orange permanent lights along a gable and eave after dark
Side by Side

Why Permanent Lighting Beats Seasonal Lights

Most people in Chaska weigh us against one of two habits: hauling out the bin of lights each fall, or paying someone to hang and remove them every year. Here's how all three hold up over the long run.

Color-changing roofline lights, orange into green and blue, on a two-story home as dusk falls

Permanent Lighting

Up for good, and made for your house.

The Signature 48-volt system we manufacture ourselves, screwed into your soffit in a color that matches your trim. Holiday looks, game-day colors and everyday accent light, all from an app with no monthly fee.

  • Pay once for the install, then just power
  • Stays up through every Minnesota winter
  • Year-round accent, security and team colors
  • Hidden under the eaves in daylight
  • Higherinitial investment
  • Very Easyday to day
  • App Control16M colors, scenes, schedules
  • Looks Greatall year long
A jumbled pile of colorful holiday string lights

Store-Bought Temporary

Saves money, costs weekends.

The strands are affordable, but hanging, fixing and storing them eats into your time each year. Fine if you light up for a single holiday and like the ladder work.

  • Small cost per box
  • Dead strands to swap out each year
  • Ladder trips to hang them and take them down
  • Cords and clips on view the whole time
  • Lowinitial investment
  • Harderevery season
  • Manualplug-in or basic timer
  • Looks Goodfor a few weeks
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Seasonal Install Service

Hands-off for you, every season.

Our crew puts up your holiday lights every season and takes them back down when it's over. A good fit if you want the display without handling any of it.

  • Moderate price, every year
  • Nothing for you to climb, two crew visits
  • Mostly a holiday-season look
  • Results vary with that year's lights
  • Moderatepaid yearly
  • Easycrew does it
  • Seasonalholiday weeks only
  • Looks Greatfor the season

Your House, Your Call

A permanent system is the bigger cost up front and the smaller one over time. If you only want lights up for the holidays and down again by the new year, our crew's seasonal holiday lighting is probably the better match, and we'll say that plainly.

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Pricing

Permanent Lighting Pricing

We price by the linear footage of track plus the controller and power components, so your number follows your roofline. A newer build with one clean gable front sits at the efficient end. A multi-level with stepped elevations, or a larger property with a detached garage you also want lit, is genuinely more material and more labor and we will not pretend otherwise.

The design consult is free and our quote is firm before we order anything. If a monthly figure suits you better, we offer 0% interest financing through Klarna.

One thing we raise while we are scoping your house: if the siding wants a wash or the gutters want clearing, we would rather do that first, because mounting track under an eave we are about to clean is the wrong order. Ask us about booking both on the same visit.

  • Three Wally's crew members next to the company van
    Free design
    consultation
  • A home in daylight with its permanent lighting track hidden under the eaves
    Track matched
    to your trim
  • Gables lit in yellow, green and teal permanent lighting at night
    App setup with
    your first scenes
  • Warm white permanent lighting along a garage roofline at dusk
    0% financing
    through Klarna
  • Pink and orange permanent LEDs outlining a gable at night
    Lifetime lights,
    10-year system
  • The Wally's Home Services crew in front of a company truck
    72-Hour
    Worry-Free Guarantee
See It Lit

Permanent Lighting for Every Occasion

A few of the looks our customers run on their homes.

Built for Open Lots

Lighting Plans for Your Roofline

A lot of the newer homes here have straightforward roof geometry compared with older housing stock, which keeps our track run efficient and usually gets us in and out in a day.

The lots are the other half of it. Young landscaping and open ground mean nothing stands between your house and the road, so your lighting reads from across the development rather than only from the curb.

That cuts both ways, and we will say so at the consult. A restrained scheme looks excellent from a distance. An over-bright multi-color one is just as visible to everybody, which is why we tend to talk people down a setting or two.

A home at night with permanent lights along the roofline
Wally the walrus, the Wally's Home Services mascotReviews

Chaska Lighting Reviews

Straight track and even spacing are easy to check, so give your new lights a good look from the road once we've gone. Notice a crooked run, a gap that looks wrong, or anything else that isn't right? Let us know within 72 hours, and our crew will return and fix it free.

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A Chaska Point

HOA-Friendly Permanent Lighting

Plenty of the newer developments here, Clover Ridge and Jonathan among them, run under an association with covenants covering exterior appearance, and sometimes seasonal displays specifically. That is normal for housing of this age and we would rather sort it before install day than after.

The outcome is usually straightforward. A system that is invisible in daylight and shows nothing when it is switched off generally sits inside rules written to limit visible year-round decoration. We put product information and photographs of installed track in your hands for the submission, so your board is approving something it can see rather than a description.

If your association comes back with a condition we cannot meet, we will tell you plainly instead of installing and hoping nobody raises it.

A two-story home at dusk with permanent lights along every roofline, shifting from orange to green to blue
Two Kinds of Trim

Color-Matched Track

Housing in Chaska splits in two, and each half asks something different of the track color.

Downtown, a lot of the older homes are cream brick, with steep roofs, deep eaves and painted wood trim. The track takes the color of that painted trim rather than the brick, since the trim is the line your eye follows along the roof. Before settling on where the track runs, we look over the wood under the eave to be sure it's sound.

Newer neighborhoods mostly have trim wrapped in aluminum or vinyl, finished in a factory color. We match the track using that color's RAL code, so you get an exact match rather than a close neutral.

On either kind of home, we agree on the track color and its path while you're standing in the driveway with us, before anything gets ordered.

A home at dusk with its permanent lighting switched off, the track under the eaves hard to spot
Financing

0% Interest Financing Available

Whether it's a newer build on an open lot or an older brick home downtown, a full permanent system is a bigger purchase, and plenty of people find it easier to plan as monthly payments.

With 0% interest financing through Klarna, we can install your complete system now while you pay it down over time, interest-free.

We cover the Klarna option during your free consultation, next to the firm price for your home, so every number is in front of you before you decide.

Klarna

0% Interest Financing

Install the complete permanent lighting system today and pay it off over time through Klarna.

Financing through Klarna is subject to approval.

Your Local Team

Serving Chaska

Wally's Home Services covers Chaska and the surrounding Carver County area. We are one local company, not a franchise or a dealer network, so the people who quote your job are the people who do it and the people you call afterward.

Address
4300 Quebec Ave N #100, New Hope, MN 55428
Phone
(612) 216-7894
Hours
Monday–Saturday: 8:00 AM–6:00 PM · Sunday: Closed
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ZIP Codes We Serve Near Chaska, MN

  • 55305
  • 55317
  • 55318
  • 55331
  • 55343
  • 55345
  • 55386
  • 55391
  • 55426

Just outside Chaska? We also cover Chanhassen, Victoria, Minnetonka.

Frequently Asked Questions

Permanent Lighting FAQs

Straight answers so you know what you are booking. If your question is not here, call and ask.

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1. Will my Chaska HOA approve permanent lights?

Usually. Associations in newer developments like Clover Ridge and Jonathan often have covenants on exterior looks. A system you cannot see by day and that shows nothing when off tends to fit those rules. We give you product information and photos of installed track for your submission.

2. How much do permanent lights cost in Chaska?

A newer home with one clean gable front sits at the efficient end. A multi-level home with stepped elevations takes more material and more labor. We price by the linear foot of track plus the controller. If a monthly figure helps, we offer 0% interest through Klarna.

3. Can permanent lights go on an older brick home?

Yes. On the older cream brick homes downtown, we match the track to the painted wood trim, not the brick. The trim is the line your eye follows along the roof. We also check that the wood under the eave is sound before we plan the run.

4. Can you match permanent light track to vinyl or aluminum trim?

Yes. Newer homes here mostly have factory-finished aluminum or vinyl trim. We match the track using that color's RAL code, so you get the exact color, not a close neutral.

5. Are permanent lights too bright on an open lot?

They can be if you run them at full power. With young trees and open ground, your house shows from across the development. A soft warm white looks great from a distance. You dim it from the app, and we often suggest a setting or two lower.

6. How long does it take to install permanent lights?

Newer homes here usually have simple roof shapes, so we are often in and out in a day. We finish by setting up the app on your phone and walking through each scene with you after dark.

7. Should I get my siding washed before permanent lights go up?

If the siding or gutters need it, yes. We would rather clean first than mount track under an eave we are about to wash. We can book the cleaning on the same visit.

8. Do permanent lights plug into a regular outlet?

Yes. The control box plugs into a standard garage outlet, normally the ceiling outlet that powers your garage door opener. It stays up high and never needs unplugging.

9. What if I'm not happy with the results?

Then we make it right, free of charge. Walk the property after we are done, and if anything falls short, call us at (612) 216-7894 within 72 hours. We come back and fix it at no cost to you. No invoice, no argument, no fine print. That is the Wally's Worry-Free Guarantee.

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