The plans Toll Brothers used in Pradera lean on a tall glass feature over the front door — a two-story stack of panes that lights the entry stairwell and, from the street, is the whole point of the elevation. Lighting the roofline above that feature is what most of a Pradera quote is actually about.
A Pradera front elevation typically stacks three heights: a garage return, a main eave, and the gable or parapet above the two-story entry glass. Each is a separate ladder set and a separate measured cut of commercial-grade strand, and the peak above the entry is the run that makes the house read finished from the street. Lots here run large by Caldwell standards and a good share of the homes carry a third or fourth bay built out as an RV garage, which adds real linear footage on that elevation plus a longer stretch of driveway. All of which is why the number comes from looking at the house rather than a phone estimate.
Pradera's stucco accents and light-colored vinyl and LP-style siding show damage and staining more visibly than the older aluminum-sided ranches closer to downtown. A staple or nail through stucco or an LP board is both a water path and a visible repair, and on light-colored siding the stain around it does not go away. Nothing here gets fastened into the building at any point — clips grip the gutter lip or shingle edge and come off in January with no evidence. Where a run needs to cross the entry feature, it attaches at the roof edge above rather than anywhere on the stucco face.
Every attachment point is a plastic clip — no staples, no nails, nothing driven into stone, stucco or fascia. On a home this size the bigger issue is the cut list: hips, dormers, gable returns and porch columns each need their own measured length of commercial-grade strand, and an installer working off stretched store strings ends up with uneven spacing on exactly the elevation you bought the house for. We measure each run, cut to it, and label the set so year two goes on faster than year one. Wind exposure out here is the other reason stretched strands fail — a properly seated clip on a cut-to-length run is what survives a January blow.
Every quote covers the strands themselves — commercial-grade, cut to your roofline — install, mid-season fixes, January takedown and off-season storage. On a property this size the useful advice is about scope, not price: light the entry gable and the main street-facing lines first, because that is what reads from the road, and add trees, courtyard runs or the back elevation in a later season. Since we store your custom-cut set between seasons, adding on never means starting the measuring over. The honest limit is that we do not do animated or music-synced shows — rooflines, peaks, columns and trees done cleanly is the job we are set up to do well.
Larger elevations take longer to measure, cut and hang, so October is the right call rather than a nice idea — routes fill by mid-November and the bigger jobs need the daylight. Installs run through December for late deciders. Takedown is in January and included, along with off-season storage: on a property this size that is the part owners underestimate most, and it is already in the quote. Anything that goes dark between now and then is a call to (208) 453-6760 and a no-charge fix.
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Yes, and it is usually the run worth paying for — it is what makes the elevation read finished from the road. We plan the reach at the quote with pole sections loaded for the actual height rather than leaning a ladder against stucco.
No. Nothing is fastened into stucco, siding or trim. Runs attach at the gutter lip or shingle edge only. On light-colored siding a fastener hole leaves a stain that outlasts the display by years, which is not a trade worth making.
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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