Orangevale Christmas Light Installation

South of Greenback Lane in Orangevale, a lot of houses sit on a deep front yard, set back from the street, with one old tree out front that nobody has ever managed to light properly. That’s the kind of property our Orangevale Christmas light installation crews spend a good part of November on, so it helps to know how the job runs before you pick up the phone.

We run every house through the same steps, in the same order. It keeps things predictable for you and it keeps us from forgetting the small stuff.

• Step 1, the call. You call (916) 570-9568 and tell us roughly what you’d like lit. We ask a few questions about the house and yard and give you a free estimate over the phone.
• Step 2, the photos. You text us three pictures: the front of the house from the street, the tree you care most about, and your outdoor outlets.
• Step 3, the plan. We count every run of gutter and eave from those pictures, so the strands are sized to your house before install day, and we go over the plan with you on a quick call.
• Step 4, colors. Warm white, cool white, multicolor, or a mix. A lot of folks go white on the roof and color in the trees.
• Step 5, install day. The crew shows up with the lights, the ladders, and the timers. If the outdoor outlets are reachable from outside, you usually don’t have to stay home for it.
• Step 6, the season. If anything goes dark, you call and it goes on the next repair run.
• Step 7, January takedown.

Your install date is tied to your part of town instead of the order the calls came in. In Orangevale we tend to work in a few clusters.

The streets around Almond Park on Almond Avenue go together, along with the Almond Ridge blocks that run toward the Fair Oaks line. Plenty of those homes have wide, low eaves that take a clean single run of roofline lights, and the yards are big enough that walkway lighting makes a real difference after dark.

The blocks around Pecan Park, near Greenback, get their own day. The park sits on Pecan Avenue, and many of the nearby houses have a mature tree or two in the front yard. Deciduous trees are good candidates for trunk and branch wraps, since the lights read clearly once the leaves have dropped.

Around Santa Juanita Avenue the houses are mostly from the late 1960s. On houses that age, the fascia boards have often been repainted many times, so we look them over before anything gets attached. We use plastic clips on the gutters and shingle edges. No staples and no nails.

Brentwood Villas is a gated courtyard community, so gate access gets set up when you book. The homes sit closer together, so we keep each display inside its own lot lines and pay attention to where cords run near shared walkways. Chestnut Grove Estates plans the other way around. There’s room to work, so we lay out the tree by the drive first and fit the roofline to it. In Linda Creek Estates we tend to hear from several houses on the same street, so we try to put that whole row on one install day.

Because Orangevale borders Citrus Heights on one side and Fair Oaks on the other, we often fold these clusters into the same week as nearby routes, including our Fair Oaks jobs. It keeps the crew close by for the whole stretch.

Orangevale lots run larger than most in the county, and that changes the plan. A long front walk or driveway needs more stake lights than people expect. We space them evenly and ask about the sprinkler layout on the call, then flag the heads on install day so the stakes go into the gaps.

For trees, we look at trunk size and how the branches spread. A young maple or crape myrtle takes a tight wrap nicely. A big valley oak often looks best with only the trunk and the first big limbs done, since reaching the whole canopy isn’t practical. Our tree wrapping page explains how we decide.

Porch pillars and columns get a spiral wrap that matches the roofline color. If you have a front door or porch railing worth dressing up, a lit wreath and a run of lit garland along the entry tie everything together. We plan the outlets and cord runs so nothing crosses the walking path, and everything goes on a timer that turns on around dusk and shuts off by itself.

Once the lights are up, we’re still on the job. If a strand quits or part of the roofline goes dark, phone (916) 570-9568 and it gets handled on our next trip through Orangevale. We’re based in Folsom, so it’s a short drive.

In January we come back and take everything down: roofline, wraps, stakes, wreaths, and garland. Nothing stays on the house into spring, and there are no light bins left in your garage. To get on this year’s schedule, call (916) 570-9568, or use the request form on our contact page; include your cross street so we can match you to a cluster.