The display leaves with North Pole Lighting in January and comes back to the same house next season.
The lights are ours, stored in Southwick, and checked before they go back on a roof.
Most people do not resent hanging lights. They resent the shelf the bins live on for ten months. Christmas light storage is the part of this job nobody sells, and it is included. It works the same for a house in Southwick as for one in Feeding Hills.
The same labeled runs get brought back out and rehung on the same parts of the house next fall.
The whole display leaves, not just the strands. A house in Suffield or Hampden gets emptied out the same way.
All of it comes off in one visit. That visit is the display being taken off the house in January.
The season runs about sixty days. The other ten months are the part nobody thinks about, right up until they are moving a bin in July.
The runs were cut to your peaks, slopes and dormers, so they only fit your house. Labeling them by address is not a nicety. It is the only way the system works.
Tangles are not bad luck. They are a storage method. A strand coiled loosely by section and kept flat comes out next November the way it went in. A strand stuffed into a bag comes out as a knot and a bad Saturday. That is why the coiling happens at your house, during takedown.
The off season is when problems get found, in a lit shop instead of on a ladder in the dark.
A strand built for outdoor use spends two months on a New England roof. An unheated garage is not what kills it. Damp storage, crushing weight, and being balled into a bag do far more damage than cold does. The reason we store it is not that your garage is dangerous. It is that we can check it and you cannot.
Four bins is a shelf. A shelf in a two-car garage in January is worth more than it sounds. Nothing about the display occupies your house between the takedown and the next install.
Next season is a rehang, not a redesign. The plan is on file and the runs are cut. The crew already knows which part of the house was awkward. Changes are still yours to make, and most people change one thing and keep the rest.
Here is a fact worth knowing that nobody in this market tells anybody. Decorative light strings carry a holographic safety label, and the color of that label is the rating. Green means the string is rated for indoor use only. Red means it is rated for indoor or outdoor use.
It is right on the tag, and UL Solutions publishes the standard behind it. Anyone can check their own strands in about ten seconds.
Hang in the fall.
The display goes up in October or November, before the roof ices.
Run the season.
The lights stay lit and serviced through the holidays.
Take it down.
The display comes off in January, or once the snow is off the roof.
Store and check.
The runs go on our shelves, get tested in the off season, and come back next fall.
With us. The runs are coiled, labeled to your address, and stored on our shelves until next season.
No. Nothing from the display stays at your house, including the cords, clips, timers and stakes.
You get the same runs, cut to your roof. They only fit your house, which is why they are labeled by address.
Coil them loosely by section, keep them flat and dry, and never stuff a strand into a bag. That is what we do with ours.
Cold is not the main risk. Damp storage, crushing weight and tangling do far more damage than temperature does.
Included. Storage is part of the same job as the design, the install, the season, and the takedown.
We take them down instead. The display is a seasonal lease, and leaving strands out year round shortens their life.
Not at this time. We hang seasonal displays, service them, take them down, and store them.
Every display on the shelves came off a house on this list, and goes back to the same one.
Longmeadow, East Longmeadow, Hampden, Wilbraham, Agawam, Feeding Hills, Southwick, Westfield, and Hampden County, Massachusetts. Suffield, West Suffield, and Granby, Connecticut, in Hartford County.
Storage is part of the same job as the design, the install, the season, and the takedown. There is nothing separate to arrange.
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