Planning is the part of a holiday-lighting business that happens away from the ladder. It covers when to count inventory, when to set prices, when to contact returning customers, when to bid new work and when to place the first order. It also covers the engineering decisions that belong in a bid, above all how a display will be powered and how many circuits it needs.
The articles in this section are written for owners and crew leads who plan a season rather than a single job. They assume you already know how to hang lights and focus instead on sequencing the year so that installs run on schedule and service calls stay manageable. Where dates are mentioned, treat them as a general framework: climate, market and crew size move every date, and a business in a warm region will run a different calendar from one where snow arrives in early November.
Power planning sits here because it is decided at the estimate, not on the roof. A bid that ignores the circuit, the cord rating and the timer rating can leave a crew with a design that cannot be powered from the outlets available. The formula is short: the continuous limit of the circuit divided by the wattage printed on the bulb, then checked against every component in the chain. Our power article works through it for 15-amp and 20-amp circuits and for LED and incandescent C9 bulbs.
Related reading sits in the other sections. The Logistics section turns a planned season into a material order and a receiving routine, and the Products section explains the bulb and color terms that affect what you order. Material prices referenced in bids can be checked against the current listings at the installer supply desk.
Power is the part of a bid that customers never see and crews cannot improvise. The math is short, and the key input is printed on every bulb.
Holiday lighting is a short season built on a long runway. This calendar lays out what installers typically work on in each month so the busy weeks are spent hanging lights, not chasing parts.