Schell Brothers built twelve single-family homes in Seneca Springs on quarter to half-acre lots, choosing from four custom designs rather than stamping out one plan block after block. On a street this small, no two houses quote the same — and that is the point worth making before anyone gives you a number.
Because the community was built from four distinct designs rather than one repeated plan, there is no standard Seneca Springs roofline the way there is in a two-hundred-lot subdivision off a single builder catalog. Two neighbors can differ by several measured runs. The designs share a common feature though: two-story great-room walls and taller entry glass as a deliberate design element, which looks sharp from the street and is a genuine ladder-and-pole job rather than a quick front run. We quote each house on its own elevation and roof sections rather than assuming it matches the one next door, because on this street it usually does not.
Quarter to half-acre lots instead of Star's typical production footprint means more room to work and more scope to decide about — trunk wraps on established landscaping or a driveway approach are each their own line rather than assumed. The construction side is straightforward: near-new seamless gutter with sound clip purchase, architectural shingle that takes a shingle-tab clip cleanly, and no aging hangers to work around. The time goes into height and the number of separate runs rather than into managing an old building, which is the honest breakdown of where a Seneca Springs quote actually lands.
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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Because which of the four you have, plus your elevation and what you want lit, changes the answer substantially. On a twelve-home street the variation between houses is proportionally larger than in a big subdivision, not smaller. A ten-minute look gets you a firm number instead of an estimate that moves on install day.
Yes, with pole sections planned for the actual height rather than a ladder leaned against new siding. We work that out at the quote in daylight. That glass is the design feature of the house, so it is usually the run worth doing properly.
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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