The Lusk District butts right up against Boise State, so one block can hold a 1920s bungalow with painted wood sash next to a low-rise apartment building with sliders and picture glass. Lighting this pocket is really two services — a house install and a small commercial one — often on the same street.
Older Lusk District homes sit on narrow infill lots, frequently with a detached garage or shared driveway eating into the side yard, so ladder placement takes some thought. The newer low-rise apartment and condo buildings built for students and young professionals are a different logistics problem entirely: multiple units, a shared exterior, less roof overhang, and usually a property manager or HOA who needs to sign off before anyone is on site. Neither is difficult. Both go badly if the access and approval are sorted out on install day instead of at the quote, which is why we ask who owns the exterior before we put a number on it.
Being next to a university and a stadium means traffic, parking and event days are real scheduling factors between late November and December. For an owner-occupied bungalow that mostly means picking a morning. For a multi-unit building it means coordinating an install window that does not collide with tenant parking or a home game, and setting the January takedown the same way. We will work to your calendar rather than ours, and for buildings we can put the install before open hours or early in the day so ladders are clear before foot traffic builds.
Nothing gets stapled, nailed or glued to your building. Parapet edges, sign bands and entry canopies take clips and purpose-made anchors matched to the edge detail we find on site. On flat and low-slope roofs there is usually no hung gutter to clip to at all, so runs get seated at the roof edge or parapet cap without blocking a scupper or internal drain — a blocked drain in a freeze-thaw week is a far more expensive problem than a dark light section. Installs and takedowns can be scheduled before open hours so the ladder is gone before your customers or tenants arrive.
The quote covers commercial-grade LED strands supplied and cut to your building, installation, mid-season fixes if a run goes dark mid-December, January takedown, and off-season storage. For tenants and property managers that means one invoice and no equipment to account for at year end. Install windows can be set before open hours, and we will work around a tenant improvement or a delivery schedule if you tell us about it at the walk-through. We do not do animated displays or interior decorating — edges, entries, sign bands and trees, done cleanly, is the scope.
Book in October if you want the display up for the first shopping weekend after Thanksgiving; commercial routes fill even earlier than residential ones because the install has to fit your hours rather than ours. Before-open installs are normal for us. Mid-season fixes are included — a dark run over an entry on a Friday night is our problem to solve, not something you should be pricing out in December. Takedown happens in January, on a schedule set around your traffic, and the set goes into our storage until next year.
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Yes. Multi-unit and small commercial exteriors are quoted the same honest way — by what we are actually lighting, after a walk-through. One invoice, install and takedown scheduled around tenant traffic, and mid-season fixes included so a dark run over an entry is our problem rather than yours.
For anything we do not install at the direction of the building's owner, yes. It is worth settling before the quote rather than after. Since nothing is stapled, nailed or screwed into the structure and everything comes down in January leaving no trace, the approval conversation is usually straightforward.
We supply them. Every install uses commercial-grade C9 or mini LED strands custom-cut to your roofline. We do not hang store-bought strands — a roof in December is the wrong place to find out a four-year-old set has a dead section, and supplying the lights ourselves is what lets us include mid-season fixes in the quote.
No. Every attachment point is a plastic clip matched to what you actually have — gutter lip, shingle edge or ridge. Nothing is stapled, nailed, screwed or glued. When the lights come down in January there is no evidence they were ever up, which is the whole standard.
Call or text (208) 453-6760 and we come fix it at no charge. That is part of the job, not a separate service call. Commercial-grade strands fail far less than store strings, but wind, squirrels and one crushed bulb still happen — you should not spend a Saturday diagnosing it on a ladder.
We come back, take everything down, and store your set through the off-season, where it gets inspected and repaired before next year. No bins in the garage, no untangling next November, and no second invoice — takedown and storage are already in the quote.
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