Arden Park Christmas Light Installation

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Every December the park district lights a tree at the community center on La Sierra Drive. The evening is called Holiday in the Park, and one events listing puts that tree at 17 feet. Your ranch house doesn’t have to compete with it. It just shouldn’t be the dark one on the street when everybody drives home afterward. That’s most of what Arden Park Christmas light installation amounts to, and it’s the whole job at Sac Xmas Light Installation: the strands are ours, the ladder climbing is ours, and so is the trip back in January to strip the house bare again.

No HOA here, so no deadline

Wondering what the HOA allows? In Arden Park that’s a quick conversation, because there isn’t one. The Arden Park Neighborhood Association is voluntary and operates from the park’s community center. The parks themselves belong to the Arden Park Recreation and Park District. Neither one tells you when lights can go up or when they have to be gone. County Neighborhood Preservation Area zoning does cover the neighborhood, but that’s about lots and buildings. It has nothing to say about what’s clipped to your gutter.

So the calendar is yours. Want everything up in early November, before the relatives land? Fine. Prefer to wait until the park tree is lit? Also fine. The only real limit is our schedule, which fills, and early callers have the most dates to pick from: (916) 586-7193.

What the houses in Arden Park need

The neighborhood was first developed in 1946 and has close to 1,900 homes now. Most are mid-century ranches and ramblers, with some brick fronts, some Mediterranean revivals and newer two-story rebuilds. Each type changes the job a little, starting with the roof.

A ranch has long, low eaves, which is about as friendly as a roof gets. Clips carry each strand, seated on the gutter or slipped beneath the shingle edge, and the nail gun stays home. On a Mediterranean revival, if the roof is tile, the clips are a tile-specific kind and our boots stay off it wherever that’s possible. Two-story rebuild? Tell us on the phone so the right ladders show up.

Yards here are bigger than a typical Sacramento lot and the trees are established, so trunks get wrapped, plus whichever lower limbs a ladder reaches without heroics. One good tree, done properly, beats four done halfway. Brick entryways are common, and pillar wraps go on their posts and columns without drilling into brick or mortar. Generous front yards mean a long walk from the street to the door, so stakes along the path or the driveway edge handle that, none of them pushed in next to a sprinkler head. Then the lit pieces: one wreath at the door, maybe a second up on the garage gable, garland framing the entry. On a brick front these do a lot of work without touching the masonry.

Plenty of yards here have a pool out back. That’s your business. We work the street side unless you ask for the patio too.

Quotes by phone or by photo

Nobody needs to visit your house to quote it. Call (916) 586-7193 and tell us four things: one story or two, what the roof is made of, which trees you care about, and where your outdoor outlets live. If describing a house over the phone isn’t your idea of fun, text or email a few photos from the street and we’ll work from those. Either way you get a straight answer about what the job involves.

Timers are part of the setup. Dusk switches the display on, and it goes dark at whatever hour you pick, so you’re not out in a bathrobe at midnight unplugging things.

We supply every strand, so you don’t buy, test or untangle anything. If a section quits during the season, phone (916) 586-7193 and it gets repaired. Come January the crew is back to unclip every strand and cart the lot off. The roof is bare again and no bins end up in your garage.

Arden Park Christmas light installation, Arden Way to Fair Oaks Boulevard

We cover the whole district, between Eastern Avenue and Watt Avenue, every street from Arden Way down to Fair Oaks Boulevard, and we work out of the Bell Street part of Arden-Arcade ourselves. We also hang lights on the acre lots of Arden Oaks, over in Sierra Oaks, and around the rest of Sacramento. If trees are the main event at your place, the tree wrapping page has more.

The contact form is there for anyone who’d sooner write than talk. And if you’re reading this from a folding chair at the tree lighting, (916) 586-7193 is tap-to-call.

Straight answers for Arden Park

Does the park district or the neighborhood association set light dates in Arden Park?

No. The Arden Park Neighborhood Association is voluntary, and the park district runs parks, not rooflines. Nobody sets display dates here, so lights can go up and come down when it suits you.

My Arden Park house has a brick front. How do the lights attach?

Roofline lights clip to the gutter or the roof edge. Wreaths, garland and column wraps are hung and tied without drilling into brick or mortar.

Can you light the big trees in my front yard?

Yes, within reason. Trunks and the low limbs a ladder can get to are fair game, and we’ll say plainly on the phone which trees are worth doing.

Do you need to see my house before quoting?

No. A phone conversation does it, or a handful of pictures texted over. Stories, roof material, trees and outlet locations are what we ask about.