West Valley went up mostly between the mid-1970s and the early 1990s — single-story and split-level ranches on flat lots with an attached two-car garage across the front and a fenced back yard. Reachable rooflines, predictable geometry, and one recurring obstacle: the side gate.
The standard plan out here puts an attached two-car garage across the front elevation with the main roofline running above and behind it, usually at a shallow pitch on a flat lot. That is an efficient install: one main run, a garage return, good footing everywhere, nothing above standard ladder reach on the single-story plans. Split-levels add one height change but rarely more. Nearly every house is T1-11 plywood or hardboard lap siding, which is one more reason nothing gets stapled or nailed — a puncture in hardboard lets water into the board and it swells from the inside where you cannot see it.
On a lot of these houses the only way into the back is a three-foot gap between the house and the fence, often padlocked and sometimes with a trash can or an AC condenser parked against it. If your plan includes any run beyond the front elevation, that gate decides whether the job takes an hour longer than it should. Mention it at booking — whether it is locked, whether something is stored against it, whether the dog is out — and the crew shows up able to work rather than standing in the driveway waiting on a phone call.
Every attachment point is a plastic clip; we do not staple, nail or glue anything to your house. On West Valley'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 West Valley 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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Only if your plan includes rear or side runs. If you are lighting the front elevation, we never leave the front of the house. When back access is needed, tell us at booking whether the side gate is locked or blocked so the crew arrives ready.
On most West Valley plans the front elevation with the garage across it is the entire view from the street, so yes — and it is usually the honest place to start. Side and rear runs add real cost for something few people see. You can add them a later season without re-measuring, since your set is cut and stored for your house.
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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