Mace River Ranch went up through the mid-2000s and into the 2010s with vinyl double-pane windows on standard two-story construction — a different bracket from the clad-wood custom estates in Two Rivers a half mile north. Same river-bottom cottonwood, different house, and it prices differently.
The distinction from the custom neighborhoods nearby is real and it affects the quote honestly. These are well-built production and semi-custom plans: two-story elevations that stack a garage return, a main eave and an entry gable, with seamless aluminum gutter in good condition and architectural shingle throughout. That is predictable, efficient work — three ladder sets and three measured runs on a typical front, rather than the six or seven a custom estate elevation demands. We price what is in front of us, which means a Mace River Ranch quote should not look like a Two Rivers quote, and it does not.
Mace River Ranch sits close enough to the Boise River and the Eagle Island channels to catch the same organic load as the river-lot estates: black cottonwood seed fluff drifting off the Greenbelt in late May and June, then the fall leaf drop on top of it. Seamless aluminum handles that better than an old half-round profile does, but it still packs, and a light run clipped over a packed trough means meltwater backs up and freezes under the strand. If the gutters have not been cleared this fall, mention it at the quote and we will sequence the two jobs rather than hanging over a full run.
Every attachment point is a plastic clip sized to your gutter profile or shingle edge. Nothing gets stapled, nailed or glued, which matters more on newer construction than people expect: fiber cement and LP-style trim hold paint well until something punctures them, and a fastener hole in a factory finish is both a warranty conversation and a water path. Seamless aluminum K-style gutter takes a clean clip, so installs on Mace River Ranch rooflines go quickly and come down in January without a trace. The one thing that does slow us down here is height — two-story plans stack a garage return, main eave and entry gable — and that is ladder time, not damage risk.
One per-roofline quote covers commercial-grade C9 or mini LED strands supplied and cut for your house, clip-only install, mid-season fixes at no charge, January takedown, and off-season storage with the set inspected before next season. Because the set is cut to your elevation, year two is faster and cheaper in labor than year one, and the lights stay ours to maintain rather than yours to store. The honest version: if you are in one of the single-story plans here with an easy front eave, DIY is a fair call. The two-story elevations with a stacked entry gable are where a ladder day turns into a real job.
Book in October or the first week of November. Installs go cleanest on a dry roof above freezing, routes fill by mid-November, and early bookings are lit by Thanksgiving. Late deciders still get installed through December. In January we come back, take everything down, and store the set — inspected and repaired in the off-season rather than discovered dead on the roof next November. Because the strands are cut to your elevation and labeled, the second season goes on noticeably faster than the first.
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Because it is a different house. A production two-story with three height changes is meaningfully less work than a custom estate elevation with six or seven separate gable returns and dormers. We quote the roofline in front of us rather than applying an Eagle-wide rate, and that cuts both ways.
Only if your plan includes rear runs. A front-elevation install never leaves the front of the house. If you do want the back lit, tell us at booking whether the side gate is locked so the crew is not waiting on a phone call.
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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