Sunrise Rim sits on the south rim above the river within walking distance of Boise State, where 1950s ranch homes stand shoulder to shoulder with newer infill squeezed onto split lots. Two neighbors can need two completely different install approaches, which is the whole reason we look before quoting.
The older stock is 1950s and 60s ranch: low-pitched roofs, short eaves, wide picture windows set close to the ground, the same era you see across the Bench a mile south. Mixed in are newer infill builds on split or subdivided lots — two-story fiber cement construction with taller elevations and less roof overhang. That means two approaches on one street: a quick ground-level run on the ranch, and a genuine two-story ladder job on the infill next door. Same linear footage, different days of work, which is exactly what a per-foot phone rate gets wrong.
Infill on a subdivided lot means the side yards shrank. On several of these builds there is not enough clearance to set a ladder comfortably between houses, so the plan has to account for reaching the side runs from the front or back rather than the side. On the older ranches the constraint is different — short eaves and gutter that has been up since the house was new, where clip purchase is the question rather than access. We sort out which problem your house has at the quote, in daylight, rather than on install day at four in the afternoon.
Every attachment point is a plastic clip; we do not staple, nail or glue anything to your house. On Sunrise Rim'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 Sunrise Rim 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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Because they are different jobs. A two-story elevation with minimal overhang needs a second ladder set and more time than a single-story ranch with the same roofline length. Pricing them identically would mean overcharging your neighbor to cover you, or the reverse.
Yes, with the owner's approval. Nothing is stapled, nailed or screwed into the building and everything comes down in January leaving no trace, which usually makes it a straightforward conversation with a landlord or property manager.
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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