North Highlands Christmas Light Installation
When a strand quits on a Tuesday night in North Highlands, the fix comes from up Watt Avenue in Arden-Arcade, not from across the county. That short drive matters for North Highlands Christmas light installation more than you’d guess. Free quotes by phone at (916) 586-7193.
What a North Highlands house actually needs
Less than you think. A lot of the housing here grew up around McClellan Air Force Base, and the typical house is a single-story ranch with a plain, straight roofline. Larchmont Village is the textbook case: ranch homes from the fifties into the seventies, many on quarter-acre lots, with wide driveways and big shade trees. A house like that looks good with the front roofline and the best tree in the yard lit. That’s usually enough, and you aren’t paying for lights on a side of the house nobody walks past.
Our lights, not yours
Every strand, every clip and every cord is ours, plus the timer. You won’t be storing anything or testing strands on December 1st. When the season’s over, it all goes back on our truck.
North Highlands Christmas light installation on Oakdale’s courts
Oakdale, around the elementary school and its park, has a fair number of houses on short courts and cul-de-sacs. Cul-de-sacs are underrated for lights. Every house faces the middle, so your roofline gets seen head-on by every car that turns in. We’re happy to quote several houses on one court at once if the neighbors want in.
Hillsdale, off Hillsdale Boulevard, has a lot of ranch homes with a carport or a small porch out front, and those posts take a pillar wrap in a few minutes each. The older blocks running toward Foothill Farms have the same single-story layout, and the yards there tend to have trees big enough to be worth wrapping. We’re usually working out that way already. Over in McClellan Park, the old base is a business park now, and the question there is commercial: an office entrance, a storefront, a sign. We do those too, on the same terms.
If you take the kids to see the planes at the Aerospace Museum at McClellan, you already know which streets on the drive home go all out. Nobody’s asking you to match them.
Clips that come off clean
No nails, no screws. Our clips hook onto the gutter or tuck under the edge of the shingles. Composition shingle, like a lot of older ranch homes have, is the easiest roof we work on, and tile gets tile clips. When they come off in January, nothing’s left behind. Older houses sometimes have fascia boards or gutters that are hanging on out of habit, and if we spot that, we’ll point it out before we clip a single light to it.
What goes up besides the roofline
- Tree wraps on trunks and the big lower branches. Mature trees in these older yards wrap really well.
- Pillar wraps for porch posts. Plenty of ranch porches have one or two, and wrapping them frames the front door.
- Stakes down the driveway and the front walk, set between the sprinkler heads. Our stake lighting page has the details.
- Lit wreaths above the garage or on the door.
- Lit garland for porch railings, entries and archways.
Power planning is part of the job. A lot of older homes along Watt Avenue and the streets off it have exactly one outdoor outlet, sometimes in a strange spot, so we work the runs around what you’ve got and put the whole thing on a timer. You shouldn’t need an electrician to have Christmas lights.
January takedown
We come back in January and take it all down. You don’t climb anything, and you don’t find a box of tangled lights in the garage in July. If you’d like to talk it over first, call (916) 586-7193. We also work Carmichael and Antelope, so North Highlands is on our loop every week of the season. Snap your roofline from the curb and send it through our contact page, or call (916) 586-7193 and describe it.