Rancho Cordova Christmas Light Installation

Rancho Cordova houses come in decades, and each decade lights a little differently. Our truck spends a lot of December on the west end of town, a few minutes from our shop near Bell Street in Arden-Arcade, and a good share of our Rancho Cordova Christmas light installation work sits between Bradshaw Road and Sunrise. If you keep meaning to get the lights up and keep not doing it, call (916) 586-7193. We’ll ask a few questions, give you a free price on the phone, and you can decide without a salesperson standing in your driveway.

Our lights, our clips, our timer

It’s the most common thing people ask, and the answer hasn’t changed. The lights, the clips, the cords and the timer all come on our truck. Nothing for you to shop for or plug in on the kitchen floor to see if it still works, and no Saturday lost to a knot of wire that was fine last year. When the season’s over, all of it leaves with us.

The late fifties to 1980: ranches off Mather Field Road

The older streets off Mather Field Road, Lincoln Village among them, are mostly single-story ranch homes from the late fifties into the seventies, with long, low rooflines and a two-car garage right up front. That’s friendly ladder work, and the finished roofline looks sharp because there’s nothing fussy to fight with. Low roofs mean we can usually do the whole front edge, the garage and a side fence line in one trip.

Older blocks come with older trees, too. A thick trunk in one of those front yards is a much better candidate for a wrap than a sapling in a subdivision that was dirt ten years ago.

Clips, not fasteners

We don’t staple, and we don’t drive anything into your fascia. Roofline lights go up on plastic clips, hooked over the gutter or tucked beneath each shingle on a composition roof. On tile, which is common in the newer parts of town, we use clips built for tile so nothing cracks or gets pried loose. When the clips come off, the roof looks the way it did before we got there.

Rancho Cordova Christmas light installation on 2000s two-stories

Stone Creek, part of the Villages of Zinfandel build-out around 2000, is where the houses turn two-story, with more peaks and gables than the ranches west of it. Montelena, down in the southeast corner of the city, is newer still. A two-story peak outlined in white shows from the end of the block, but it takes more ladder time. Smaller front yards also mean stakes along the walk often do more for the house than a tree wrap would, and we’ll tell you which one gets the better result for what you’re spending.

December rain and your lights

It rains here in December. Shocking. The lights and connectors we use are rated for outdoor use, and we keep plugs up off the ground and away from spots where water collects. We won’t work a slick roof in a downpour, so a storm can push an install back a day. If a section goes dark after a wet week, call (916) 586-7193 and we’ll come find the bad connection. You won’t be on a ladder in the rain, which is sort of the point of hiring someone.

Past the roofline

The roofline is the backbone, but most homes in town end up with a mix. Trunks and main branches get wrapped tight so the tree’s shape shows at night, and trees that drop their leaves wrap cleaner than bushy evergreens (our tree wrapping page goes into it). Whatever holds up your porch roof gets a pillar wrap with even spacing, so it doesn’t look like a candy cane that gave up halfway down. Stakes go along the walk and beside the driveway, with sprinkler heads flagged first. Lit wreaths go on the garage peak, the front door or an upstairs window, and lit garland on porch railings, entry arches and banisters. Most houses have one or two outdoor outlets, usually on a GFCI, and we lay out the runs so you aren’t resetting a breaker every night.

Front-only and storefront jobs

Lots of people only want the street side done, and that’s fine by us. Businesses along Folsom Boulevard ask for the same thing, and a lit storefront or entrance is often all a shop needs. The commercial side of what we do has its own page.

Gone by the end of January

In January, every year, we come back, take everything down and haul it away. No bins stacked in your garage, and no lights still clipped to the eaves in April because nobody wanted to drag the ladder out. We’re working Fair Oaks and Gold River all season, so we’re through Rancho Cordova every week. Call (916) 586-7193, or use our contact form and we’ll ring you back.