Holiday Light Installation in the Centennial Golf Course Area, Nampa

The Rooflines Around the Course Are Not All the Same Job

Houses ringing Centennial Golf Course are mostly 1990s and 2000s builder stock, and that generation of Nampa plan has a predictable roof: asphalt composition shingle, a front gable over the garage, a smaller gable or hip over the entry, and long straight eave runs down the sides. On the single-story ranch plans out here the front eave sits around ten to twelve feet — ladder work and nothing more. The two-story plans, the ones built to put a great room and a wall of glass toward the fairway, carry a steep street-facing gable with a peak in the low twenties. That peak is the line people actually want lit, and it's the line that moves the quote, because a straight eave run and a two-story gable rake are not the same work even at the same footage.

Why We Hang This Pocket Before the Rest of the Valley

Install has to happen before the roof ices over, and around the course that comes earlier than it does in the tighter subdivisions west of here. The open fairway ground and the pond water sit right against these lots with no tree canopy and no fence line to slow the air, so the frost that burns off a shaded street by nine is still sitting on a north-facing shingle here at eleven. Cold air isn't the problem — we can hang lights at thirty degrees all day. Frost on a composition shingle is the problem, because that's when a roof stops being walkable. We start booking this area in early October and put most of it up between mid-October and mid-November. Waiting until the first week of December usually means we're working off ladders and stand-offs only, and some ridge lines just don't get lit.

Clips Only, and Whatever Your Subdivision Says

Everything goes up on all-plastic clips that hook the shingle edge or the gutter lip. No staples through shingles, no nails into fascia, no adhesive on trim. C9 bulbs get spaced consistently down an eave so the run reads as one line from the street instead of a sag between two high points. On the HOA question, be careful with what you hear from a neighbor: the Centennial Golf Course area is not one platted subdivision under one set of rules — it's the loose ring of streets and cul-de-sacs around the course, and Brookdale Estates and the other platted pockets each carry their own CC&Rs. Some restrict bulb color, some set a date range for when lights can be up. We'll build to whatever yours says, but pull your own CC&Rs before you pick colors — we can't tell you what's in them.

What We Check Before We Quote a Roofline

Two things decide whether a roofline should get lights at all. First, fascia and shingle condition. On houses where a gutter has been overflowing for a few seasons, the fascia behind it goes soft, and a soft board will not hold a clip carrying a wet strand through a January storm. Shingles at twenty-five-plus years get brittle in the cold, and tabs crack under a boot at thirty degrees — on those we stay off the field entirely and work the edges. Second, power. A lot of these 1990s houses have exactly one exterior GFCI at the front porch and one at the back patio. A long two-story gable in old incandescent C9s will trip that circuit; LED runs won't, which is why we split and time the runs at the outlet. If a roofline isn't safe to light, we say so before you're on the schedule, not the morning of.

Takedown, Storage and What It Costs

Holiday lighting here is quoted per roofline, and the price covers install, takedown and storage — we label your set, box it and keep it until next season, so it isn't taking up a corner of the garage all summer. Takedown happens after the holidays on a day the roof is actually dry and workable; we don't pull clips off frozen shingles just to hit a date on a calendar, because that's how tabs come with them. If a strand quits in December, call and we'll come back out. Reflekt is locally owned and fully insured, founded in 2025 by Hunter Stevens and Ethan Seusy, with a 4.9-star rating across 115+ Google reviews. Same-day and next-day slots exist, but for lights we'd rather get you on the October schedule. Call (208) 453-6760.