Ardell Estates is 220 CBH homes from 0.16 up to 0.311 acres off Linder and West Striped Owl Drive, with plans from 1,364 to 3,250 square feet. Larger lots mean houses that spread rather than stack, and a spreading house has more roofline than its square footage suggests.
This catches people out. A 2,000 square foot two-story has a compact footprint and a relatively short roofline perimeter. A 2,000 square foot single-story on a 0.311 acre Ardell Estates lot has double that footprint perimeter, and holiday lighting is quoted per linear foot of roofline plus peaks, dormers and returns. So the wide single-story plans here frequently quote above taller homes with more square footage, which is worth explaining before the number rather than after.
The upside of 0.16 to 0.311 acre lots is genuine space to work. Ladders can be set on level ground at proper angles rather than improvised around a condenser in a five-foot side yard, which makes the install safer and the result more consistent, especially on returns and corners that get rushed or skipped on tight-platted lots. It also means the January takedown is a straightforward job rather than a hazardous one.
Reed Elementary is about 0.40 miles from Ardell Estates and Kuna High about 0.70, which makes these genuinely walkable streets with real December foot traffic. Close-range viewing is a harsher standard than kerbside: spacing, straightness and dark bulbs show from a few metres away. On a wide single-story roofline that long straight run is the whole effect, so getting it genuinely straight matters more here than on a house with broken-up geometry.
The lights are ours, not something you buy. Commercial-grade LED strands rated for outdoor winter service, custom-cut to your roofline so a long run terminates exactly at the roof edge rather than bunching. A timer is included and mid-season service if a run fails. In January we take everything down, service it and store your set over the summer, which on a long roofline is a substantial amount of material you do not have to house.
Everything attaches with clips gripping the shingle edge or the gutter lip, so nothing is driven into fascia, shingles or trim. Clips load the gutter lip, so gutter condition matters, and on the wide rooflines here there is a lot of gutter carrying granule and wind-blown soil with relatively few downspouts, which compacts heavy and works hangers loose. We cannot clear a gutter once lights are on it, so gutters go first. Book in September or October.
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Roofline perimeter. A wide single-story on a 0.311 acre lot has roughly double the footprint perimeter of a compact two-story with the same square footage, and quoting is per linear foot of roofline plus peaks, dormers and returns rather than by house size.
Yes, and safer. Ladders can be set on level ground at proper angles rather than improvised around a condenser in a five-foot side yard, which makes the result more consistent on returns and corners, and it makes the January takedown straightforward rather than hazardous.
It raises the standard. With Reed Elementary about 0.40 miles away these are genuinely walkable streets, and close-range viewing shows spacing, straightness and dark bulbs in a way kerbside viewing does not. On a long straight roofline that run is the whole effect.
No, we supply them and they remain ours. Commercial-grade LED strands cut to your roofline so a long run terminates exactly at the roof edge rather than bunching, with a timer included, mid-season service, January takedown and summer storage.
Because clips load the gutter lip. The wide rooflines here carry a lot of gutter with relatively few downspouts, so granule and wind-blown soil compact heavy and work hangers loose. We cannot clear a gutter once lights are on it, so gutters go first.
September or October. Kuna books out early and by December the choice of dates is whatever remains, and booking early means the survey and any gutter work happen in reasonable weather.
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