Project description
Our two-story house needs holiday lighting installed along roughly 140 feet of roofline plus two mature maple trees near the front walkway. Lights should mount using gutter-lip clips or shingle-tab clips rather than staples or nails, since the roof warranty forbids penetrations. Trunk-to-canopy wrapping on the maples should follow a tight spiral with even spacing so the branch silhouette stays visible rather than washed out in a solid glow. Please bring a photocell timer paired with a dusk-to-dawn schedule, wired into a GFCI-protected outdoor outlet, and route the extension cords along drip edges so nothing pools with rain or snowmelt.
Ladder work needs stabilizer standoffs that clear the gutter, plus a second person on the ground whenever the pitch is more than a gentle slope; anything steeper should use roof anchors and a harness rather than leaning a ladder against the fascia. Bulb strings should be tested string-by-string before mounting so a single bad plug does not take down a whole run, and every splice needs a weatherproof cap.
After the season, plan to come back in the first two weeks of January for full removal: unwrap the trees in the reverse spiral, coil each roofline run onto its own labeled spool, and tag every spool and bin by zone (front roof, side roof, left maple, right maple) so next year's install is not guesswork. Store everything in labeled totes rather than loose bags, and note which timer settings worked well this year for next season's crew.
Ladder work needs stabilizer standoffs that clear the gutter, plus a second person on the ground whenever the pitch is more than a gentle slope; anything steeper should use roof anchors and a harness rather than leaning a ladder against the fascia. Bulb strings should be tested string-by-string before mounting so a single bad plug does not take down a whole run, and every splice needs a weatherproof cap.
After the season, plan to come back in the first two weeks of January for full removal: unwrap the trees in the reverse spiral, coil each roofline run onto its own labeled spool, and tag every spool and bin by zone (front roof, side roof, left maple, right maple) so next year's install is not guesswork. Store everything in labeled totes rather than loose bags, and note which timer settings worked well this year for next season's crew.
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