Phoenix Field Christmas Light Installation

You live on Runway, Hangar, Propeller or Kitty Hawk, so you already know what was here before the houses. Small planes used a 2,600-foot strip on this ground until about 1987, and close to 500 homes followed in phases. For Phoenix Field Christmas light installation, the airstrip is trivia. What counts is what got built on it: contemporary plans with high ceilings, which means tall fronts and peaks that sit a long way off the lawn. If that’s your house, the number is (916) 999-5158.

A high-ceilinged house puts its gables and entry well above where a homeowner’s ladder comfortably reaches. Roofline lights on these homes are a job for long ladders, a second set of hands and clips that stay put at that height. We fasten to gutters and shingle edges only. Paint and trim are left without a mark.

Tall entries are worth using. A lit wreath hung high over the door or in the gable above it fills wall that would otherwise sit dark. Lit garland around a tall door frame does the same at eye level. Where two columns frame the entry, wrapping them ties the upper and lower parts of the front together so the roofline doesn’t float by itself up top. The pillar wrap page has more on how those are wound.

The first houses went up in the late 1980s, so the landscaping is grown in. A street tree planted as a stick is now a real tree, often right in front of the window you’d most like to show off. We look at your photos with that in mind. Where branches hide part of the eave, we shift light onto the tree itself.

Tree wraps here are usually trunk and main limbs. They’re wound by hand with nothing fastened to the tree, and our tree lighting page says which trees take it well.

We’ll be straight about this. We couldn’t find an HOA name or any governing documents for Phoenix Field, and we don’t know whether one covers your address. So we won’t tell you there are no rules, and we won’t quote you any. If your closing papers include CC&Rs, check them for a decorations section and pass along what it says when you call (916) 999-5158. We follow whatever rules the homeowner has, including how late lights may stay lit, and a timer takes care of that part.

Stake lighting suits the front walks here, and it balances a tall house by putting some light low. We set stakes in a straight, even line and keep them out of the mower’s path and away from sprinkler heads.

If you’re near Little Phoenix Park inside the tract, or on the south side toward Phoenix Park, you likely get neighbors on foot in the evening. People walking slowly notice ground-level detail, so the walk and the door deserve as much thought as the peak. Homes along the edges at Sunset Avenue and Hazel Avenue get seen from passing cars instead, and for them a clean, complete roofline is what registers.

We ask about the house, you describe it or send photos, and the quote comes from that. The lights are ours and they go on a timer. In January we come back with the same tall ladders and bring it all down, so you aren’t up at the peak in February wondering how it was attached.

Phoenix Field sits right beside Rollingwood, and both are part of our Fair Oaks service area. To send pictures or a note first, go to the contact page. For anything that stops working during the season, (916) 999-5158 is the line to use.

Did you find an HOA for Phoenix Field?

We don’t know. We found no HOA name or documents for the neighborhood, so check your own paperwork. If rules apply to your address, we’ll follow them.

My entry and gables are very tall. Can you reach them?

Yes. Tall fronts are common here because of the high-ceiling plans, and we bring the ladders and the people for that height.

Do I have to be available for someone to look at the house first?

No. Pricing happens by phone, or off pictures you send us, and no one has to tour the property beforehand.

The tree out front blocks part of my roofline. What do you suggest?

Usually we light the tree and the entry and run the roofline only where it shows. Your photos tell us how much of the eave is visible from the street.