Antelope Christmas Light Installation

Antelope roofs are a two-story job more often than not, and two-story peaks are where most homeowners stop and hand it off. The town’s east edge runs along Roseville Road, so for our crew it’s practically next door. For Antelope Christmas light installation, we bring the tall ladders, the clips and the lights, and the whole display comes off in January. Quotes are free at (916) 776-8436.

Most of Antelope went up as a planned community starting in the late 1980s, and a lot of those tract homes are two stories tall. You’ll find concrete tile and composition shingle on the same street, and they get handled differently.

Concrete tile

We stay off the field of a tile roof whenever we can. Tile cracks under a boot, and a cracked tile leaks by February. The work happens from the ladder along the eave: tile clips slide under the bottom edge of the lowest course, or gutter clips go on where a gutter runs. Up the gable rake the same clips hold without drilling or glue.

Composition shingle

Easier. Tab clips tuck under the shingle edge and keep the line straight. Where there’s a gutter, the clip rides the front lip instead.

Upper and lower rooflines

A two-story house usually has an upper roofline and a lower one over the garage or porch. Light both and the house reads from a block away. Light only the lower line and it can look unfinished, so we’ll talk through it on the phone before anything is ordered.

Warm white or multicolor

Either works. Warm white looks crisp against the tan and gray stucco all over Antelope, and multicolor hides a single dim bulb better. On HOA streets, check your guidelines first. Some associations don’t care, others want a heads-up before anything goes on the house.

We start on the east side, closest to our Roseville shop. In Antelope East, the first streets in off Roseville Road, the houses are mostly two-story tract homes with the upper gable facing the street, and that top line is where the install time goes. Antelope Meadows is mostly early-1990s two-stories with the garage up front, so the upper gable is the line that matters from the street. Get that one straight and the rest of the front falls into place.

Moving west, the streets around Antelope Crossing have a lot of front-facing garages and small porches. A wreath centered over the garage door and pillar wraps on the porch columns fill out the front without adding more roof work.

Antelope Ridge is more settled, and some yards there have a trunk thick enough to carry a wrap. If you’ve got one out front, that’s your centerpiece. Down along Antelope Road, the south edge of town, the houses are closer together and the frontage is short, so a clean roofline and a lit walk usually do the job.

The roofline comes first: eaves, the gable rakes and the peaks, all on clips and never nailed. Trees get a snug spiral up the trunk and along the main branches, tight enough that wind can’t slide the rows and loose enough that nothing bites into bark. Our tree lighting options page shows a few layouts. Porch posts get a pillar wrap, spaced evenly top to bottom. Stakes go an inch or two inside the edge of the walk or a planter bed, clear of sprinkler heads so a Saturday mow doesn’t take them out. A lit wreath can go on the garage, the front door or a second-story window, and lit garland dresses a railing, an entry arch or the stair banister.

Most Antelope homes have an exterior GFCI outlet by the garage and maybe one by the front door or back patio. A GFCI trips when water gets into a connection, and the first good rain of December finds every sloppy splice. So every plug joint gets lifted off the ground and covered, cord runs along the foundation and down the downspout instead of across the lawn, and we check what else is on that circuit before we load it. Then a timer takes over: on at dusk, off late in the evening. Not sure what outlets you have? Text us a photo of the side of the garage, or call (916) 776-8436 and we’ll tell you what to look for.

A strand quits after a windstorm? Call (916) 776-8436 and a tech comes out and swaps it. In January the crew returns, pulls every clip and bulb, and the lights leave on our truck. Nothing sits on your roof into March, and nothing takes up a shelf in your garage.

We’re out in North Highlands, Citrus Heights and Rocklin all season, so an Antelope stop fits the route most days. Send your address and two or three pictures of the roofline through our contact page, and we’ll come back with a price.