North Highlands Christmas Light Hanging

Half of North Highlands has a bin in the garage labeled XMAS that nobody has opened in years, and you’re in good company if yours is one of them. We’re the crew that shows up with our own lights and our own ladders so it can stay shut. Buddy’s Christmas Light Hanging works out of Citrus Heights, just a few miles east, so getting you on the calendar is no big trip. Call (916) 510-0929 and we’ll talk through North Highlands Christmas light hanging for your house.

The streets off Don Julio Boulevard are a good place to start. Plenty of those homes are single-story with simple gable fronts from the late eighties and nineties, which makes for a clean, quick roofline, so folks there tend to spend their budget out in the yard instead: stakes down the walk, a wrapped tree or two, maybe a wreath on the garage.

Up by Antelope Road and Brock Park, a lot of streets sit right up against the Antelope neighborhoods we already work in, so there’s a good chance we’re parked nearby when your install day comes around. Larchmont Village, over by Larchmont Park, is another spot where we’re usually two houses down from our last job. Highland Terrace has a lot of carports up front, and a carport post is the easiest pillar wrap there is.

Hillsdale is a real mix, ranch houses next to newer two-stories, sometimes on one block, so no two quotes on a street come out the same. The two-stories get the tall ladder and a second guy footing it. The ranches get done before lunch.

A North Highlands ranch house is our favorite thing to light, no contest. Low eaves, long straight runs, easy pitch. A lot of the gutters here you could almost reach off a step stool. (Please don’t. That’s our job, and we have better knees for it.)

Roofline lights go up on plastic clips that grab the gutter or tuck beneath the bottom row of shingles. No little holes in the fascia for you to discover in March. On composition shingle the clip slides in and pops back out clean. Peaks and gables get their own run so the actual shape of your house shows up after dark.

Planehaven is some of the oldest housing in town, and nobody wired those houses with Christmas in mind. Some have one outside outlet, and it’s around back behind the barbecue.

So before anything goes up, we sort out power. Which outlet is closest, what else shares that circuit, and how do we get cord out front without stretching it across the driveway for somebody to trip over at night? Then the whole display goes on a timer. It comes on around dusk, shuts off at a reasonable hour, and nobody has to go out in the cold to unplug it.

Older streets here have real trees, and some of them are enormous. We wrap trunks and lower branches with tight, even spacing so the result looks like a tree and not a spaghetti accident. Crape myrtles and smooth-barked trees wrap beautifully. A big shaggy pine usually gets a trunk wrap only. More on that over on our tree wrapping page.

Stake lighting runs along walkways, driveways and lawn edges. We walk the yard first and flag every sprinkler head so no stake gets driven through one.

Then come the finishing touches: a lit wreath hung front and center or up on the garage peak, lit garland along a porch rail or around the entry, and pillar and column wraps on porch posts. Those are what make a house look finished up close and not just from the curb. We also light storefronts along Watt Avenue and Elkhorn Boulevard, plus a few church entries.

Once January rolls around, we return, unclip every strand and drive off with the lot. Nothing dangling from the eaves in March and no bins for you to find room for. If a strand quits in mid-December, just call and we’ll swap it out.

Call (916) 510-0929, or drop us a line using the contact page. Tell us roughly what you’d like lit and text a picture of the front if it’s handy. If a ranch roof is all you’ve got, (916) 510-0929 is a very short conversation.