The commercial blocks along Front Street and 1st Street South don't have gables — they have flat parapet caps and transom bands, straight brick rooflines that a C9 run reads clean across from the sidewalk. Lighting a storefront down here is a different job than lighting a house, and it's most of what we hang in this part of Nampa.
A downtown building gives you two natural lines to light: the parapet cap along the top of the facade, and the transom band above the door and display bay. A single straight C9 run across the parapet is the whole look on most of these buildings — no rakes, no ridges, just one clean horizontal line that carries the length of the frontage. On the mixed-use buildings where apartments sit over the shops, we keep the run on the commercial facade and coordinate with whoever manages the building. Every strand is commercial-grade C9 or mini LED, cut to your actual frontage width rather than looped and bunched at a corner where a stock length ran out. That matters more downtown than anywhere, because the glass below the run is a display window and the whole storefront gets judged together from across the street.
We attach with plastic clips only — no staples, no nails, no screws, and no adhesive, which matters on buildings this age because a fastener hole in a parapet cap or a mortar joint is permanent. Clips need an edge to grab: metal parapet cap flashing, a gutter lip, a sign band edge, an awning frame. Most Front Street frontages have at least one of those lines, and we find it on the walkthrough. The honest limit is that some don't — a bare masonry parapet with no cap flashing and no trim edge gives a clip nothing to hold, and since we won't drill or glue, we'll tell you that frontage can't take a top run and quote the transom band or display bay outline instead. A straight answer on the walkthrough beats a sagging strand in December.
Nampa holds the winter inversion longer than most of the valley, and once December's cold lid settles in, ladder work on an icy sidewalk in front of a storefront is exactly what nobody wants during business hours. So the schedule runs the same as our commercial glass routes: book in October or the first week of November, and we install before or after your business hours so there's no ladder in front of your door while customers are walking in. Lights are up and tested well before Thanksgiving, sitting dark on a timer until you flip them on. Routes fill by mid-November — retail owners all want the same weeks — and while we do install through December for late deciders, the choice slots and the mild-weather working days go to the October callers.
Every install uses our commercial-grade C9 or mini LED strands, custom-cut to the building. We don't hang customer-owned lights, and on commercial frontage there's a specific reason beyond the usual one: store-bought strands, especially ones that have lived in a back room for a few seasons, fail by the section — and a dark section on a house is a shrug, while a dark section over your front door in the second week of December is your storefront looking closed. When a section does go out on one of our installs, that's covered: call, and we come fix it at no charge, working around your open hours the same way the install did. The strands go back to us in January, get inspected and stored through the off-season, and go up faster next year because they're already cut to your frontage.
Holiday lighting is quoted per roofline — for a storefront, that means we look at your actual frontage and give you a free number, not a flat package price that treats a narrow single-bay shop and a wide corner building as the same job. The quote covers everything: the lights themselves, install, any mid-season fixes if a section goes dark, takedown in January inside whatever window works for your business, and off-season storage with an inspection before next fall. No wreaths, no garland, no animated shows — just clean roofline and frontage lines done right. Reflekt was founded in April 2025 by Hunter Stevens and Ethan Seusy, is locally owned and fully insured, and holds 4.9 stars across 125+ Google reviews. Call or text (208) 453-6760 and we'll walk your frontage before the October slots go.
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Both, and downtown is mostly storefronts. The typical job here is a C9 run across the parapet cap or sign band, sometimes with the transom band or display bay outlined below it. We quote per roofline off your actual frontage, install outside your business hours, and handle takedown and storage the same as on a residential install.
That's the only way we'll do it. Clips only — no staples, nails, screws, or adhesive, because holes in old masonry and parapet caps are permanent. Clips grab an existing edge: cap flashing, a gutter lip, a sign band, an awning frame. If your facade has no edge to grab, we'll say so on the walkthrough and quote a lower line that works instead of forcing it.
October, or the first week of November at the latest. We install before or after your open hours, and those off-hours slots fill by mid-November because every retail owner wants lights up before Thanksgiving. We keep installing through December for late deciders, but the mild-weather days and the pick of the schedule go to October callers.
Call (208) 453-6760 and we come fix it at no charge — mid-season repairs are part of every quote, not a separate trip fee. We know a dark section over a storefront door reads as closed, so commercial fixes get worked in around your hours the same way the install did. Most failures isolate to one cut section, which swaps fast.
No — every install uses our commercial-grade C9 or mini LED strands, cut to your frontage. Older store-bought strands fail by the section, usually mid-December, and we can't stand behind a repair guarantee on lights we didn't supply. Ours go up, come down in January, and get stored and inspected by us, so there's nothing in your back room to deal with.
We take everything down in January, working around your business hours, pull the clips, and take the strands with us. They get inspected and stored through the off-season, labeled to your building, so next year's install is a repeat of a layout that already fits — no re-measuring, no bins in your storage room, no untangling anything in November.
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