North Pole Lighting takes the display down, hauls it away, and leaves your trim the way it found it.
Takedown comes with every install, across Hampden County and over the Connecticut line.
Hanging lights in October is the easy half. The hard half is January, when it is dark at four thirty and the ladder feet sit on frozen ground. Christmas light removal is that half, and it is ours. Wilbraham and Agawam get the same two-stage rule everybody else does.
Once the strands are off the house they are boxed and kept off your property until the next season.
It is a shorter visit than the install, and you do not have to be home for it. A house in Westfield or West Suffield runs the same way.
The plan is January, right after the holidays. If snow is sitting on the roof, the date moves until it melts. A pitched roof in January is the worst surface in the New England year. No schedule is worth putting a person on it.
There is a second reason not to leave things sitting. More than a third of home fires that start with a Christmas tree happen in January. That number comes from the National Fire Protection Association. It is about the tree indoors, not about lights on a roof. What it really describes is a habit: decorations left up long past the point anyone is enjoying them.
Most of the damage people associate with holiday lights happens on the way down, not on the way up.
The display went up on clips, so takedown is unclipping. There is no staple to pull, no nail hole to fill, and no caulk to touch up.
Each run is coiled as it comes down and tagged to the part of the house it came off. That is what makes next November a rehang instead of a redesign. The run was cut to your roof, so it fits your house and nobody else’s.
A strand that has been outside since October is stiff. Pulling it hard in January is how a cord cracks and how gutters get bent. It comes off in sections, warmed by hand where it needs to be, and never yanked from the ground.
Foundation bushes get plowed in, snowed on, and half buried by January.
The whole display leaves on the truck. No coil in the garage, no bag at the curb, no bin to break down. Homeowners notice this part most, because it is the part that never gets done when they do it themselves.
Plenty of people have three or four dead strands in the garage from before they hired anyone. Those are not ours and we do not haul them. The honest advice is to keep light strings out of curbside recycling, because mixed wire fouls the sorting line. Many communities and retailers run seasonal light collections instead.
The rest of the display goes back up next November exactly as it came down.
Set it at the install.
The takedown goes on the calendar the same day the install does.
Confirm after the holidays.
We reach out in January to put the takedown on the calendar.
Wait out the roof.
If your display is up top, the roof visit gets scheduled once the pitch is clear.
Check the property.
A final walk makes sure no clip, stake or bulb got left behind.
Most people want them down in January, once the holidays are over. That is when our takedown runs.
Many households take everything down around the twelfth day after Christmas, in early January. Others wait for the first free weekend.
We do. Takedown is scheduled with the install, so it is never something you have to remember to arrange.
Then the date moves. We come once the snow is off the roof and a ladder is safe.
No. The display went up on clips, so it comes off without a staple, a nail hole, or a patch.
We would not. Once the season is over the display comes off the timer, and then it comes off the house.
They leave with us, coiled and labeled to your address, and they go into our storage until next season.
Keep them out of curbside recycling, since the mixed wire fouls the sorting equipment. Seasonal light collections are a better route.
Takedown runs the same route the install did, town by town.
Longmeadow, East Longmeadow, Hampden, Wilbraham, Agawam, Feeding Hills, Southwick, Westfield, and Hampden County, Massachusetts. Suffield, West Suffield, and Granby, Connecticut, in Hartford County.
Every quote covers the takedown, so booking the install books the removal too. You do not have to think about it again.
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