Christmas Light Hanging Service in Suffield, CT
North Pole Lighting designs, hangs, services, removes and stores Christmas lights for homes across Suffield.
We bring the lights, the clips and the ladders. You stay on the ground.
A lighting contractor working out of Southwick. One phone number, and it gets answered. The lights are ours, and we take them back in January.
Christmas Light Hanging Service for Narrow, Deep Main Street Lots
We are a lighting contractor working out of Southwick, one town north. A Christmas light hanging service here has to suit a very particular kind of lot. Suffield’s lots are long and skinny, with the house sitting close to the road. That comes from how the town taxed property a couple hundred years ago. Outbuildings run back behind the house instead. On a lot like that the display gets read from the sidewalk, so details show.
Southwick borders this town directly, and West Suffield is on the same run. All of it sits in north-central Connecticut, in the Connecticut River Valley.
That pattern is recorded in the Living Places record for the Suffield Historic District.
- Lots here are long and skinny, so the front of the house does almost all the work
- Out on the newer streets the town wants big lots, about two acres, set fifty feet off the road
- Nine out of ten homes are single family, and almost 90 percent of the land is zoned for houses
- The lights are ours. We lease them for the season, so nothing gets stored in your garage
- Clips only. Nothing gets drilled, nailed or stapled into trim of any age
What We Light on a Main Street Home
Eight services, one crew, one season. The house gets planned first and touched second.
- Christmas Light Design We walk the property from the sidewalk first, because on these lots that is where the display gets seen.
- Christmas Light Installation The crew arrives with the strands already built and hangs them on clips, in one visit.
- Christmas Light Maintenance A dark bulb that a ladder can reach gets replaced that same season.
- Christmas Light Removal The display comes down in January, unless snow on the roof holds it up.
- Christmas Light Storage The strands leave in a labeled box with your address on it and come back in the fall.
- Roofline Christmas Lights Big round bulbs, spaced evenly, cut to the real length of your roof edges.
- Bush Christmas Lights Foundation bushes get wrapped by hand, one branch at a time, not thrown over with a net.
- Christmas Wreath Lights A lit wreath over the door or the garage, powered without a cord crossing the walk.
Old Roofs With a Lot of Angles to Light
Most towns give you plain roofs. North and South Main Street does not. Steep old roofs with fancy shingle work. Roofs that hang way out over the walls. Porches that run up two stories. Little windows poking out of the roof, some pointed, some rounded, some flat on top. Each one changes where a clip can sit and where a run has to stop.
The historic district runs two and a half miles along North and South Main Street. Roughly 175 buildings sit inside it. On those streets the crew works the way the house asks. Clips on the gutter and the shingle edge. Nothing drilled, nothing nailed, nothing left behind in January.
- Steep old roofs drop the light line low and close, so uneven spacing shows from the sidewalk
- Some roofs bend partway down and change angle. The run has to follow both parts.
- Roofs that hang way out throw the bulbs into shadow, so the line sits on the front edge instead
- Every little window poking out of the roof gets its own short run, cut to size
- Porches that run up two stories carry more of the display than the roof does
Streets and Roads We Light in Suffield
North and South Main Street carry the oldest houses, and those sit closest to the road. Mountain Road, which is Route 168, runs west out of the center toward the Congamond line. Route 75 runs north toward the Massachusetts border and Route 190 crosses it. The newer streets sit off those spines, with big lots and a wide stretch of road per house. Our crew covers all of it, plus the roads out toward Sunrise Park on the lakes. The same days run through Agawam and Westfield.
Longmeadow, East Longmeadow, Hampden, Wilbraham, Agawam, Feeding Hills, Southwick, Westfield, and Hampden County, Massachusetts. Suffield, West Suffield, and Granby, Connecticut, in Hartford County.
Towns We Light on Both Sides of the Line
Suffield touches Southwick, and Granby is one town west. Nothing on this list is a special trip.
The run reaches from Westfield east to Hampden and south over the line. That means every town on the route shares one calendar. Most of the Massachusetts side sits in Hampden County, and this side sits in Hartford County.
Explore Our Suffield Light Hanging Services
Everything below runs on the same season and the same crew.
- Christmas Light Design
- Christmas Light Installation
- Christmas Light Maintenance
- Christmas Light Removal
- Christmas Light Storage
- Roofline Christmas Lights
- Bush Christmas Lights
- Christmas Wreath Lights
On a house that sits eight feet off the sidewalk, the work has to be neat from three feet away. That is what it takes to hang lights on the front of a Main Street home.
If a run goes dark in December, we come out and fix a dark run mid-winter.
Suffield Christmas Light Hanging Service Questions
Do you work in Connecticut, or only Massachusetts?
Both. Suffield is on the regular route, because Southwick borders it directly with no town in between.
How far are you from Suffield?
One town. Route 168 runs unbroken from Southwick, across Congamond Lake, into Route 75 in the center of town.
Do you hang lights on older homes on North and South Main Street?
Yes. Those houses are most of the reason this page exists. The crew works off clips and takes everything with it in January.
Do you attach anything permanent to the house?
No. Nothing is drilled, nailed or stapled. Clips sit on the gutter edge and the shingle line, then come off.
My house sits right on the sidewalk. Does that change the display?
It changes what matters. Close to the road, people see spacing and bulb color. The roofline has to be even the whole way.
When do Suffield installs happen?
October and November, mostly. Hanging lights in Suffield gets harder once the first freezing nights arrive in the middle of October.
Do you cover West Suffield too?
Yes. It is part of the same town and the same run, out Mountain Road.
What happens if a bulb goes out in December?
Call. If a ladder reaches it, it gets fixed that season. If it is on the roof with snow on it, it waits for safe footing.
Do you take the lights down, or is that on me?
We do. Takedown happens in January, and it waits only if there is still snow on the roof.
One Road From Our Lights to Your Roofline
Route 168 leaves Southwick, crosses the lake, and ends at Route 75 in Suffield center. That is the whole trip. The season runs about sixty days, and the calendar fills inside it.
Don't Be a Grinch
Book a free quote for Christmas light hanging service in Suffield before the calendar fills.