East Franklin Christmas Light Hanging

East Franklin looks like an HOA neighborhood. Entry monuments, landscaped corridors, sixteen parks. It isn’t one. The parks and streetscapes are kept up by the Cosumnes Community Services District, and the City of Elk Grove’s own map of homeowner associations shows none covering East Franklin. For East Franklin Christmas light hanging that means something simple: there’s no association calendar to check before the lights go on your house. Elk Grove Christmas Light Hanging hangs them when you say and comes back for them in January.

Maybe you want the house lit by the middle of November. Maybe you’d keep it going until school is back in session. Both work, and nobody mails a letter. Call (916) 823-8394 with the dates you have in mind. The only schedule is the one you and the crew agree on, and our standing habit is to return in January and clear the house so nothing is still clipped to the gutter when the spring rain shows up.

One footnote. A few small tracts anywhere in town can carry their own CC&Rs, recorded when the homes were sold. If you remember signing something like that, pull it out and check. We found no association and no such documents for East Franklin, but your closing file knows your lot better than we do.

The subdivisions went in over about twenty years, late 1990s into the 2010s. One- and two-story homes, three to five bedrooms, attached garages, small low-maintenance yards. That adds up to a lot of roofline for the size of the lot, so the roof does most of the talking.

So roofline lights come first: the front eave, the garage, and the peaks that face the street, on clips matched to what’s up there (gutter, comp shingle or tile). No fasteners go into the house. The sidewalk street trees are anywhere from ten to twenty-five years old, and the older ones have trunks worth wrapping. A wrapped trunk with a few lit branches does more for a small yard than a pile of lawn decorations.

Short front walks and driveway edges suit a neat row of stakes, and where drip lines and pop-up heads sit close to the concrete, we probe before we push. Then the entry: pillar wraps go on the posts, a lit wreath lands above the garage door or up on the second-floor gable, and lit garland frames the front door. On a two-story with a tucked-back entry, those three are what make the door findable after dark.

Quotes are by phone. Ring (916) 823-8394, say one story or two and roughly what you’d like lit, and we’ll work up a number. Photos help if the house has an unusual front, and the contact page is there if you’d rather write. We bring the lights and take them away again, so there’s no shopping trip and no tote in the attic. Neighbors in Laguna Ridge and Madeira are on the same route.

A do-it-yourself roofline usually fails one of two ways. The strand goes slack, or a plug ends up sitting in a puddle. So we seat the run clip by clip until it’s taut, and every connection sits off the ground with something over it. If a section goes dark anyway, (916) 823-8394 is answered through the season.

With 108 acres of parks spread across the area, plenty of homes look onto one. If your house looks onto Morse Park, Stephenson Park, Jungkeit Park, Kunsting Family Park or Machado Dairy Park, it gets seen from a distance, straight on. A level, evenly clipped roofline matters more there than anywhere. If you back onto one of the district’s trails instead, think about the rear eave, since that’s the side the trail sees. Either one changes the quote a little, so say so at (916) 823-8394.

If you live near Cosumnes Oaks High School or Bartholomew Sports Park, a timer that brings your lights on at dusk means the house is already lit for the evening drive home.

The entry monuments, corridor trees and park trees are the district’s, not yours and not ours. We keep our work on private lots.

Is East Franklin governed by an HOA?

Not according to the City of Elk Grove’s association map, which shows none over East Franklin, and we found no association documents. The parks and corridors are maintained by the Cosumnes Community Services District. An individual tract could still have recorded CC&Rs, so check your own paperwork.

Is there a start date for East Franklin Christmas light hanging?

No. With no association calendar, the dates are between you and us. We take everything down in January unless you ask for a different plan.

Can you light the entry monument or the trees along the corridor?

No. Those belong to the services district. We work on your house, your yard and your trees.

My yard is tiny. Is there enough to decorate?

Yes. Small yards put the attention on the roofline, the entry and one good tree, which is usually the cleanest look anyway.