Citrus Heights Christmas Light Installation

On the older streets around San Juan Avenue, the house often sits way back on a long, uneven parcel, with a pair of big oaks between it and the street and a fence line that seems to go on forever. Citrus Heights has a lot of those. Back when the town was still called Sylvan, the land was sold off in ten-acre lots, and some of that elbow room never went away. They’re our favorite yards to light. We come up from just south of the city line, and the southern half of town is where the bulk of our Citrus Heights Christmas light installation happens.

Park Oaks, around San Juan Avenue, is the closest part of town to us, and a lot of those yards have a big oak or two out front. The houses are mostly one-story, so the rooflines are easy to reach but often hidden behind limbs. We light what shows from the street and put real attention into the trunks.

The Sylvan Old Auburn Road area is the oldest part of town: older homes, older trees and some of those deep lots we mentioned. Out there, a lit walkway down a long front yard usually does more than a second row on the roof.

Arcade Creek, west of Park Oaks, follows the creek, and the backyards there are shadier than the fronts. If you spend December evenings looking out a back slider, lighting the back trees makes more sense than piling everything on the front gutter. Birdcage Heights and Sunrise Ranch, on the east and north sides, have more of a typical suburban layout, with two-car garages and front lawns. That’s ideal ground for stake lighting and a clean roofline, and a lot of those jobs finish before lunch.

A long lot means a long walk from the house to the street, and a row of stake lights is what makes that walk part of the display. The stakes go along the walkway or the driveway edge after we flag every sprinkler head. Wood fences get a strand fastened to the upper rail by clip or soft tie, never a staple, and we plan the power so there’s no extension cord running across the lawn. Our fence line lighting page has more on that.

Outlets are the other thing on a deep lot. Many older homes have one outlet on the front porch and that’s it. We work out the loads ahead of time, and a timer handles dusk to bedtime.

We’re tree people, honestly. A healthy oak with a good trunk wrap looks better than most rooflines ever will. The strand goes up the trunk in a relaxed spiral, and we skip limbs that already droop.

Then the house. Roofline lights go on with clips at the gutter or the shingle edge, and the occasional tile roof gets tile-style clips. Porch pillars and columns get wrapped. A lit wreath goes on the door, and lit garland can run along a porch railing or around the entry. The lights are all ours, so there’s nothing for you to buy or test.

In January we come back and remove everything, so your gutters are bare again well before spring and there are no boxes of lights for you to store. If something goes dark in the middle of the season, call (916) 999-5158 and someone comes out to swap the bad section.

We’re in North Highlands and Orangevale often during the season, both close by, and our North Highlands page covers the neighborhoods west of you. Quotes are free by phone at (916) 999-5158, or send a message and a photo of your front yard through the contact page. If there’s an oak you’ve always wanted lit, start with that when you call (916) 999-5158.