Christmas Lighting Wholesale

Holiday lighting for communities and multi-building sites

Christmas Lighting Wholesale sells C9 and mini light supplies in the quantities that multi-building sites run through: 2,000 and 4,000 ft. C9 installation kits, 500-bulb cases, 24-strand mini light cases, clip cases and 4-packs of photocell timers. It's built for HOAs, apartment and townhome communities, office parks, campuses, senior living communities, and the lighting contractors who install for them.

What a multi-building site lights

Rooflines

Clubhouses, leasing offices, amenity buildings and street-facing residential buildings are usually outlined with LED C9 bulbs on socket wire. Large kits cover several buildings from one box; 1,000 ft. socket spools and 500-bulb cases extend any kit.

Entrances and monuments

Entrance walls and monument signs are lit with a short C9 outline, mini lights on the surrounding shrubs, or C9 bulbs on 8 in. light stakes along the beds in front.

Common-area trees

Trees along main drives and in courtyards take LED mini strands. A 24-strand case puts every tree on the property in the same color and wire color.

Walkways

Light stakes hold C9 bulbs on socket wire along paths between buildings and parking areas, at a consistent height above the bed.

Mounting across different buildings

Sites built in phases often have different roofs side by side. Shingle buildings take all-in-one clips, tile roofs take tile and extended fascia clips, metal canopies and carports take magnet clips, and peaks take ridge clips. Order the clip for each roof type with that building's lights so the crew has the right mount on site.

Power on a large site

Each building usually runs from its own outdoor outlets. Plan runs so each one starts near an outlet, use SPT-2 zip cord with male zip plugs for leads that cross a walkway or landscaping, and keep plug connections off the ground. LED C9 bulbs and mini strands draw far less than incandescent, so longer runs share a circuit, but every circuit still has a limit. A photocell timer on each circuit switches the whole site on at dusk and off after the set hours.

Who installs

Some sites have their maintenance staff install the display; others hire a holiday lighting contractor. Either way, the same supplies list works: the materials are ordered once for the site, labeled by building, and reused each season with a small top-up for bulbs and clips.

Adding buildings later

When a new building, entrance or amenity is added, light it to match by ordering the same bulb color temperature, lens style and spacing as the rest of the site. Socket spools let a new building's runs be cut to its exact footage.

Ordering for a site

Prices are listed on every product page. Orders are placed online with a card at checkout, with no account, application or minimum. Shipping is free on all orders, every order ships the same day, and there are no added fees. Unused product in its original packaging can be returned within 30 days. Orders ship within the United States.

A building-by-building takeoff for multi-building sites

On a site with a clubhouse, several residential buildings, an entrance and common-area trees, the order goes wrong in one of two ways: too little of one clip type, or bulbs that don't match from one building to the next. A takeoff sheet, built one building at a time and then totaled, prevents both. Here's how to put one together and turn it into an order.

Step 1: list every building and feature

Walk the site with a site map and give every lit item its own line: each building, the entrance monument, each courtyard tree, each walkway. For each building, record the roofline footage, the roof surface (shingle, tile, metal) and the spacing. Spacing is usually set by viewing distance: 12 in. for buildings people walk up to, like the clubhouse and leasing office, and 15 in. for residential buildings seen from the drive.

Step 2: convert each line to sockets

Sockets are feet × 12 ÷ spacing. An example site:

• Clubhouse: 240 ft. at 12 in. = 240 sockets, shingle roof
• Leasing office: 160 ft. at 12 in. = 160 sockets, shingle roof
• Residential buildings A–D (4 × 220 ft.): 880 ft. at 15 in. = 704 sockets, shingle roof
• Pool cabana and carports: 300 ft. at 15 in. = 240 sockets, metal roof

That's 1,344 sockets in total: 1,104 on shingle and 240 on metal.

Step 3: total by product, not by building

• C9 bulbs: 1,344 plus about 3% spare is 3 cases of 500, at $0.638 per bulb by the case.
• Clips for shingle buildings: 1,160 all-in-one clips with 5% spare, at $0.183 each in a 3,000-case.
• Clips for metal: 252 magnet clips, at $0.772 each by the case.
• Common-area trees: 8 trees at about 10 ft. take about 160 mini strands at two per foot of height, or 7 cases of 24 ($10.83 per strand by the case).
• Walkway: 120 ft. of path with a stake every foot takes about 120 light stakes, $0.800 each in a 250-case.
• Timers: one per circuit; a 4-case is $43.

Step 4: choose kits or spools for the socket wire

The site's roofline footage can come from large installation kits, which include wire, bulbs, plugs and clips, or from 1,000 ft. socket spools with bulbs and clips ordered separately. Spools fit sites that mix spacing and roof types, because each building's clip and bulb quantities are ordered to its own count. Kits fit sites where most buildings share one spacing.

• 2,000 ft. kit, 12 in. spacing: $3,970.96 ($1.99 per foot)
• 2,000 ft. kit, 15 in. spacing: $3,761.96 ($1.88 per foot)
• 4,000 ft. kit, 12 in. spacing: $8,563.82 ($2.14 per foot)
• 4,000 ft. kit, 15 in. spacing: $8,045.48 ($2.01 per foot)

Step 5: stage by building

When the order arrives, split it back out by the takeoff sheet: one bin or pallet section per building, holding that building's cut runs, its clip type, its plugs and its spare bulbs. Label each run with the building and the edge, such as "Bldg C, south eave." The crew pulls one bin per building and the next season's install starts from the same labels.

Step 6: keep the sheet

Save the takeoff with the color temperature, bulb style and spacing used on each building. When a new building or a new entrance is added later, its line is added to the sheet and ordered to match.

Ordering

Every product page lists its price, and orders are placed online with a card. There's no account or application, and no added fees. Shipping is free on all orders, every order ships the same day, and unused product in its original packaging can be returned within 30 days.