Commercial Christmas lights and displays
Giant lit trees on a steel frame, in cone, spiral, branch or stacked-sphere shapes, and dressed tower trees in green branches, for squares, malls and light shows. Tell us the spot and how far away people will see it. We have the tree made in China in sections and quote it landed.
What can be made
At a glance
A giant tree is bought for one spot and one night: a town square, a mall court, the end of a light-show path. Two kinds get made, and you choose the kind before the height.
A lit frame tree is drawn in light. Its steel frame carries LED string in a cone, a spiral ribbon, branches or stacked spheres, and after dark it reads across a square or down a light-show path. By day it is a frame, so it suits places people visit at night.
A dressed tower tree looks like a tree by day. Green branch panels cover a tower frame, with lights through them or not, and it is ready to be hung with ornaments. It suits a mall court, a lobby or a square seen in daylight. This page is not for home trees or cut trees.
A walk-in tree has an opening at its base and a flat floor inside, and visitors, families and groups walk into the tree for a photo. The opening is drawn for the widest group you expect, a stroller or a wheelchair included, and the frame is specified for people leaning on it and touching it. Visitors stand inside it, and nothing on the frame is drawn for anyone to stand on.
A run of tree-shaped arches over a path is drawn as a tunnel.
Before you ask
Height comes from distance. A tree in a square is seen across the paving and against the buildings, so it has to be tall. A tree in a mall court is seen from a few steps away and has to fit under the ceiling and through the service door. Send a photo of the spot with a measurement in it and the distance people will see it from, and the drawing comes back sized to that.
A tree drawn in light on a steel frame, or green branches on a tower frame. It changes the frame, the power and the questions to ask indoors.
Indoors or out, and the surface: paving, grass or a floor. A photo of the spot with a measurement in it does more than a description. It decides the base and the fixing.
Across a square, from the end of a path, or from a few steps away in a mall court. This sets the height more than anything else.
The height and width the spot allows, the ceiling indoors, and the narrowest door, lift or gate on the way in. The sections are sized to it.
White or colours, steady or animated, outlined or filled, and whether there is power at the spot. Power at the spot sets how the tree is built.
A cone, a spiral, branches, stacked spheres or a walk-in tree, and the topper: a star, a snowflake or a shape of your own.
Base plates, ballast or anchors, and who signs off the fixing: your engineer or your installer. A tall tree catches the wind.
The night the tree is lit, the delivery address, whether there is a forklift or a crane, who puts it up, and where it is kept after the season.
Indoors, the fire code official decides whether a lit tree can stand in the building, and on what terms, and the answer can change the whole design. Ask whose rules apply before the tree is drawn, not after the crates arrive. Where a lit frame tree will not be accepted, a dressed tree or a spot outdoors may be the answer.
Branches, skins and other greenery that go into a public building need flame test paperwork, and what that paperwork is gets discussed and agreed with you before you order.
A dressed tower tree is built to take ornaments, and on a tree this size they are oversized balls hung from the frame, not from the branch tips. Tell us whether the ornaments come with the tree or later, so the frame has hanging points where they will go.
Price
We do not publish a unit price, because every giant tree is drawn to its spot. Here is what moves it.
A taller tree needs a heavier frame, more light or more branches, and more sections and crates.
A lit tree is priced on its frame and the light along it. A dressed tree is priced on the tower frame and the branches that cover it.
More light along the frame, or more branches on the tower, costs more and reads better from close up.
An opening people step through needs a stiffer frame and a flat floor, drawn around the groups who will use it.
A plain star costs less than a topper drawn to your own shape, or a tree finished in your colours.
Base plates, ballast or anchors are made for the surface the tree stands on.
Sea freight is priced on volume, so a tree that comes apart into nesting sections costs less to move.
Timing
A tree-lighting night is fixed and public, so the order is planned back from it. The drawing, your sign-off, the build, the test, the crates, the crossing and the customs entry all come before that night.
A tree is worked back from the night it is lit.
What goes wrong
Before we quote a lit tree, we ask what your electrical inspector, venue, insurer and fire code official will want to see, and build to that. Before you commit, we also ask the factory where its steel, PVC and copper come from.
Shipping and entry
Every tree on this page is made in China, by the factories that build the other light displays we supply, and the tree and each crate are marked with their country of origin, China. Each tree ships complete: its sections, its centre pole, its branches and its lights crated together with their fixings, never a bare pole or loose tube on its own.
Who carries duty, and what happens if the rate changes between quote and landing, is stated on every quote. How that works Add up a landed cost
The record
We do not name customers without written permission, and we do not ask them to be references. What we can show is the paperwork.
Custom display structures and lighting consumables over six seasons, several containers a year, with the customs entry filed by us each time.
Available redacted, on request
Questions
It depends on the height, on whether it is a lit frame tree or a dressed tower tree, on how much light or how many branches it carries, and on the fixing and the crates. We draw the tree to your spot first, then quote it landed, with the freight and the duty on their own lines.
Our price lists include branch trees of 15 and 20 feet and bubble trees close to 20 feet. Any other height is drawn to your spot. Outdoors, the distance people see it from sets the height. Indoors, the ceiling and the narrowest door on the way in usually set it first.
Yes. A lit frame tree is made to stand outdoors from the night it is lit until it comes down. It needs power at the spot, and it is held down on base plates, ballast or anchors chosen on the drawing and signed off by your engineer or installer.
A lit frame tree is drawn in light, so it carries across a square after dark and reads from far away. A dressed tower tree is green branches on a frame, so it looks like a tree by day and takes ornaments. Indoors, a dressed tree is often the easier one to get past the building's rules. Decide this first, because it changes the frame, the power and the price.
That is the fire code official's decision, not ours, so ask before the tree is drawn. Indoors, the official decides whether a lit tree can stand in the building and on what terms, and greenery needs flame test paperwork that is discussed and agreed with you before you order. Size the sections to the service door and the lift as well.
On paving, it stands on base plates that are bolted down or weighted with ballast. On grass, it is anchored into the ground. The fixing is chosen on the drawing, not on site. A tall tree catches the wind, so your engineer or installer signs off the fixing, and we send them the factory's drawings and weights.
In numbered sections, crated with their fixings, and branches packed so they do not crush. After the season the tree comes apart along the same joints and goes back into its crates with the drawing. Plan the storage space when you order, not in January.
In the same category
Lit ornament sculptures, walk-in ornaments for a photo spot, ornament stacks and plain oversized balls, each drawn to the space it will stand in. Tell us the spot and how far away people will see it. We have the piece made in China, crated in sections and quoted landed.
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Giant wreaths on a steel frame and commercial garland in artificial greenery, lit or unlit, for building fronts, entrances, columns, railings and malls. Tell us the wall or the run and how far away people see it. We have them made in China to your colours, with the bows fixed on, and quote them landed.
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Wide-angle and smooth LED mini lights for wrapping trunks, branches and hedges, made in China to the colour, bulb count and spacing you set. A reorder is matched to the sample kept from your last one, and every order is quoted landed and planned back from your first install date.
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