Silver Falls is 63 homes off Placerville Street with the widest spread of construction dates of any Kuna subdivision, and lots from 0.156 up to 0.38 acres. On the older streets the condition of the fascia and gutters matters more than the design does.
Light clips transfer load to the shingle edge or gutter lip, which assumes both are sound. On a twenty-year-old Silver Falls roofline that is not automatic: spikes work loose, gutter seams separate, fascia boards soften where water has been running behind a failed gutter, and shingle edges become brittle. Hanging a light run on any of that is how a gutter comes away in January. We survey properly on the older homes and will tell you plainly if something needs repair before an install is sensible.
Occasionally on an older property the right sequence is repair and gutter work this autumn and lighting the following season, and we would rather say that than install onto hardware we do not trust. It is not the answer anyone wants in November, which is exactly why the survey should happen in September rather than December, when there is still time to sort the roofline out and still have lights the same year.
The older Silver Falls streets have grown-in landscaping that most of Kuna lacks, which is a genuine design advantage: mature trees take wraps, and established shrub lines and fence lines give a design depth that a sapling-landscaped new subdivision cannot offer. A modest roofline with a well-lit mature tree often looks better than an elaborate roofline standing alone on bare ground, and it is worth discussing on these lots.
The lights are ours. Commercial-grade LED strands rated for outdoor winter service, cut to your roofline so runs terminate at the roof edge, with a timer included and mid-season service if a run fails. In January we take them down, service them and store your set over the summer. On an older home with less purpose-built storage than a new build, that is worth more than it sounds.
Everything attaches with clips, never staples or nails, which matters most on older fascia where a fastener hole becomes a water entry point in ageing timber. Parcels here run 0.156 to 0.38 acres with correspondingly varied rooflines, so quotes across these 63 homes vary widely and we measure on site. Quoting is per roofline after counting footage, peaks, dormers and returns. Book in September so there is time to address anything the survey finds.
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Considerably. Clips transfer load to the shingle edge or gutter lip, and on a twenty-year-old roofline spikes work loose, seams separate, fascia softens and shingle edges get brittle. We survey properly on older homes rather than assuming the hardware will take it.
We will tell you plainly, and occasionally the honest sequence is repair and gutter work this autumn with lights the following season. That is not what anyone wants to hear in November, which is why the survey should happen in September while there is still time to sort it out.
A real one. Mature trees take wraps and established shrub and fence lines give a design depth that sapling-landscaped new subdivisions cannot offer. A modest roofline with a well-lit mature tree often looks better than an elaborate roofline alone on bare ground.
Because a fastener hole in ageing timber becomes a water entry point. Nails and staples are a poor idea on any fascia and a genuinely bad one on older fascia that has already had two decades of weather. Clips grip the edge and leave nothing behind.
Because the 63 homes here span a wide range of ages, lot sizes from 0.156 to 0.38 acres, and correspondingly varied rooflines. Quoting is per roofline after counting footage, peaks, dormers and returns, so we measure on site rather than applying a figure.
No. They are ours, so after January takedown they are serviced and stored by us over the summer. On an older home with less purpose-built storage than a new build that is worth more than it sounds.
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