Sacramento Christmas Light Hanging

Steep Tudor gables in the Pocket, long low eaves in Greenhaven, brick and big trees in South Land Park: that’s the south end of the city, and it’s where our Sacramento Christmas light hanging trucks spend most of December. It’s a few exits up I-5 from the Elk Grove Christmas Light Hanging yard, so we can have a ladder on your eaves by mid-morning and be off the freeway before the afternoon crawl. Call (916) 823-8394 and you’ll get a number while we’re talking.

We’re a south-county outfit. Most of our week gets spent in south-county tracts and out on the country roads toward Galt, so south Sacramento is basically next door. We don’t try to cover every corner of a big city. We stay close to I-5 and Highway 99, where the drive is short and we can come right back if something needs a fix.

That matters more than people think. A light crew that’s forty minutes away in traffic is a crew that shows up at three in the afternoon, right when the daylight’s running out. We’d rather be ten minutes out.

The Pocket and Little Pocket. Homes here went up from the 1960s into the early 1990s, and the styles are all over the map: ranch, Mediterranean, contemporary, a few Tudor looks with steep front gables. Those gables are the fun part. A clean line up each peak reads from the street, and we put a clip at every pitch change so the run doesn’t sag at the corners.

Riverlake. The streets around the lake usually come with HOA rules about what goes up and when, so tell us what your board allows and we’ll work inside it. A lot of lots back up to the water, which means the rear roofline shows from across the lake. Some folks want that side lit and some don’t care.

Greenhaven. Mature shade trees and wide single-story houses. Long, low eaves are easy to light well, and those big front-yard trees are prime for trunk wraps.

South Land Park. Older homes, bigger trees, lots of brick and stucco. We look over the gutters and fascia before anything goes up, since older wood doesn’t always hold a clip the way new trim does.

Meadowview and Valley Hi / North Laguna. These are the neighborhoods closest to our side of the county line. Tract homes, simple rooflines, a front walk and a driveway. That layout is where stakes along the walk and a wreath over the garage door do a lot of work for not much fuss.

• Roofline lights on the front eave line, up the peaks, and across the gable ends if you like the outlined look. Every bulb rides on a little plastic clip hooked to the gutter or tucked beneath a shingle. Our crew never puts a staple gun or a hammer anywhere near your trim.
• Tree wraps on trunks and main branches. Crape myrtles and young maples wrap tight and look great. Big old sycamores and oaks we usually do trunk and lower limbs only.
• Column wraps for the posts holding up a porch roof, wound at an even spacing so the stripe looks planned. Folks call these pillar wraps too.
• Stake lights for walkways, driveway edges and lawn borders. Before any go in the dirt, one of us walks the lawn hunting for sprinkler heads.
• Lit wreaths on the door or garage, and lit garland draped along a porch rail or up the stair banister.

We bring the lights. You don’t buy anything or dig through a garage box of knotted strands. We also plan where the power comes from, because plenty of south Sacramento houses have exactly one outdoor outlet and it’s on the wrong side. A timer handles on and off, so you never have to remember. Each service we offer has more detail.

The Pocket is wrapped by a bend of the Sacramento River, and the levee isn’t much of a windbreak. When the Delta wind picks up in December, loose lights flap, clips pop, and a strand that looked fine on Saturday is dangling off the gutter by Tuesday. So we clip about every foot on exposed runs and don’t leave long slack loops at the corners.

Tule fog is the other thing. On a thick morning you can barely see the taillights ahead of you on the freeway, and it leaves every surface wet. We keep connections off the ground and tucked up under the eave where the drip won’t sit on them. If a section still goes dark partway through the season, call (916) 823-8394 and one of us drives up to replace it.

The weekends right after Thanksgiving go before anything else. If you want lights up for a party or a family visit, call early. In January the ladders go back up and every strand comes down and leaves with us. Nothing stays clipped to your roof into spring and there are no bins stacked in your garage.

We also light storefronts, offices and churches on the south end of the city. If you’re a little farther east, we have a page for Florin too. Call (916) 823-8394, or send a note with your neighborhood on the contact page.