Broadstone Christmas Light Installation

You can probably drive the Broadstone Parkway roundabouts with your eyes closed by now. We do them with a ladder rack and a truck bed full of light bins, which is a different sport. Broadstone Christmas light installation is steady work for our crew every fall, mostly because a midsize tract house still has more roof edge than anyone wants to cover off a borrowed ladder. That’s our cue. The number is (916) 659-6549.

A family crew, based in Folsom, a few minutes up East Bidwell Street from you. Lights, clips, cords, timers: all of that rides in with us. You don’t dig through the garage for a bin labeled XMAS.

When the season’s over we’re back in January to pull the whole display off the house. That part matters. Nobody wants to be the house with lights still on the gutter in March.

Broadstone was laid out as separate villages between Highway 50 and East Bidwell, and we couldn’t confirm one association that covers all of it. Some villages have their own. Whether your street has one is something we couldn’t check from the outside, so look at your closing papers.

The attached homes and condo clusters are the ones to watch. Some of those associations are full service, the kind that maintains the roof and the siding. If the association owns your roofline, it gets a say in what’s clipped to it. Ask before you book us.

If your village does have an association, tell us what its current rules allow. Our ladder days, up in the fall and down in January, get pinned to those. If it doesn’t, pick whatever date you like.

Quick note so nobody’s confused: Broadstone Estates, the newer community south of Highway 50, is a separate place with its own setup.

The bulk of these villages got built in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Midsize tract homes, mostly. On a two-story plan, roofline lights mean a long first-story eave over the garage, a gable above it, and usually a peak or two worth outlining. Every clip grips the gutter lip or the roof edge. No staples, no nails, no holes.

The ground rolls out here. A driveway that tilts is no big deal for parking and a very big deal for ladder feet, so we level up before anybody climbs. It’s slower. We like our ankles.

The hills are dotted with oaks, and if one landed in your front yard, lucky you. A tree wrap on an oak trunk and its lower limbs is the best-looking thing we do. Our tree wrapping page shows how it’s done without choking the bark.

Back up to a green belt or one of the bike trails? Then your rear eaves have an audience. Walkers, joggers, half of Gold Ridge Elementary on scooters. We can run the back roofline to match the front.

Rounding out the list:

• Pillar wraps for the posts holding up your porch.
• Stake lighting along the walk and driveway, kept clear of the irrigation.
• Lit wreaths centered over the garage or in an upstairs window bay.
• Lit garland framing the front door or running a porch railing.

Broadstone sits between two other spots we work a lot: Empire Ranch next door and Folsom Ranch across the freeway. More about where we work is on our Folsom Christmas lights page.

Call (916) 659-6549. We’ll ask how many stories, what the roof’s made of, and which parts you want lit. Or snap a couple of photos from the sidewalk and put them on the contact page. That’s enough for us to quote it. No appointment, no stranger in your yard.

We set timers when we install, so the lights click on when it gets dark and quit at bedtime without you touching anything. A strand goes dark in December? Call (916) 659-6549 and we’ll deal with it. And if there’s a truck stacked with ladders parked outside Palladio, that’s us getting lunch between Broadstone jobs.

Does Broadstone have an HOA rule about Christmas lights?

There’s no single association we could confirm for all of Broadstone. It varies by village, so check your own closing papers or dues statement. If you have one, tell us its rules and we’ll schedule around them.

I own an attached home in Broadstone and the association maintains the roof. Can you still hang lights?

Ask your association first. When it’s responsible for the roof and siding, it usually decides what can be attached. Entry garland, a wreath and column wraps are often an easier yes than the roofline.

My driveway slopes. Is that a problem for the ladders?

No. Sloped driveways are common on Broadstone’s hills, and we level the ladder feet before anyone goes up.

Is Broadstone Estates the same neighborhood?

No. Broadstone Estates is a newer community south of Highway 50 with its own association. We work there too, but the rules are separate.