Pierce Park runs along the older canal ground on Boise's northwest side, where ranch-era houses sit on lots bigger than anything built in the last thirty years. More eave, more yard and more tree than a modern subdivision, on rooflines that are usually one story and genuinely easy to work.
The typical Pierce Park roofline is one long low-pitch run with a garage return and few height changes, which is about as efficient as a light install gets. Nearly every roof out here carries K-style aluminum gutter, and that is good news: gutter clips seat on the lip, hold the socket line upright, and come off at takedown without a mark. The detail worth flagging is the trim. Hardboard and T1-11 are common on these houses, and any puncture in hardboard is a place water gets in and swells the board from the inside. That is a general reason we never staple, and a specific reason it matters here.
On a quarter-acre-plus lot with mature trees, the question stops being whether we can reach the roofline and becomes how much of the property you want lit. The house front is one line; wrapping the garage side, running trunk wraps on the mature trees, or lighting a long driveway approach are each their own addition. We quote those separately so you can see what each piece costs and decide, rather than getting one bundled number with no way to trim it. Starting with the front elevation and adding a piece next season is a completely reasonable plan, and since your set is cut and stored for your house, adding on later never means re-measuring from scratch.
Every attachment point is a plastic clip; we do not staple, nail or glue anything to your house. On Pierce Park's low-pitch roofs there is barely enough eave to seat a clip in the first place, which is exactly why the wrong one pops loose in the first hard wind and the right one holds all season. Where the gutter lip is too shallow or too chewed up to trust, the run moves to the shingle edge instead. The other thing a short eave changes is sightline: on a single-story ranch the strand sits close to eye level from the sidewalk, so uneven spacing shows badly. Custom-cut runs are what keep the spacing even, and they are the reason we supply the lights rather than stretching a store strand to reach.
The quote covers the lights themselves — commercial-grade LED strands cut to your roofline — plus install, mid-season fixes if a section goes dark in December, January takedown, and off-season storage. Nothing lives in your garage rafters and nothing gets invoiced twice. Straight talk for Pierce Park specifically: a lot of these single-story homes are genuinely DIY-able. Straight front eave, step ladder on flat ground, a box of clips and an afternoon will do it. Where a crew earns the money is a second story, a steep or iced pitch, a roofline chopped into several sections, or simply not wanting to be on a ladder in January taking it all back down.
October or the first week of November is the window. Dry shingles above freezing make the cleanest installs, and routes fill by mid-November. Lights go up in time for Thanksgiving for anyone who books early, and we keep installing into December for people who decide late. Takedown happens in January and it is already in the number — you do not touch a ladder in the cold, and the set goes into our storage rather than your garage. If a section goes dark before then, call or text (208) 453-6760 and we come fix it; that is part of the job, not a service call.
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Yes, and on lots this size trunk wraps often do more for the look than extra roof runs would. They are quoted as their own line so you can weigh them against the rest of the plan rather than accepting one bundled figure.
Clips do not touch the siding at all — they grip the gutter lip or shingle edge. That is exactly why we use them. A staple or nail through hardboard lets water into the board and it swells from the inside out, which is a repair you would be looking at long after the lights came down.
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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