Sunset West Christmas Light Installation

Nobody in Sunset West is waiting on a letter from the association, because as far as we can find there isn’t one. Listings for this Rocklin neighborhood show no association fee, and a house in the Cresleigh Springs tract is listed with no association at all. So Sunset West Christmas light installation mostly comes down to one question. When does your family want the lights on?

Without an association, there’s no rulebook start date and no deadline in the new year. Some parents want the house lit before the school winter concert. Others wait until relatives land. Both are fine with us. Call (916) 642-7382 with your week.

Catch one: an attached or newer tract could have a small association of its own, so glance at your closing documents if you’ve never checked. Catch two: the City of Rocklin keeps the public right-of-way clear. That covers the sidewalk, the strip beside the curb and any city street tree. Our stakes, cords and lights all sit on your lot, behind that line.

Sunset West was built between 2000 and 2003, mostly single-family homes with three to five bedrooms. Tile roofs show up here, and tile is touchy. We hang roofline lights from clips shaped for tile, reach what we can from the ladder, and leave the nail gun out of it. If your roof is composition shingle instead, the clip changes and the care doesn’t.

Lot sizes swing quite a bit. Some run past a quarter acre, which can mean a wide front and a long side fence facing the street. Corner lot? Tell us, since two street faces changes what’s worth lighting.

The street trees are about as old as the houses, which gives them twenty-some years of growth. That’s a good size for a wrap: thick enough trunk to show, low enough branches to reach. We spiral the trunk, follow two or three main limbs, and tie off without piercing bark.

With Highway 65 close by, our crew moves easily between here, Whitney Ranch and Stanford Ranch on the same route. Curious about path lights by themselves? Read about stake lighting.

December here is spelling tests at Ruhkala Elementary, a gift exchange, two parties and a car that always needs gas. The lights should be the one thing that runs itself. So we build the plan around a timer and a short list:

• Roofline on the street side, peaks included.
• Pillar or column wraps flanking the porch.
• Stake lighting to mark the path for small feet after dark, set between sprinkler heads.
• A lit wreath up high, plus lit garland on the door frame.
• A tree wrap if you’ve got the tree for it.

A home on Taft Drive has appeared in a local holiday display directory. We can’t promise it’s running this year, so check before you load up the kids. And if you’d like your own place to earn a slow drive-by, tell us on the phone at (916) 642-7382.

We quote jobs by phone ((916) 642-7382), or from the pictures you text or email after bedtime. The contact page is open all night too. One straight-on shot of the house and another from the corner usually covers it. Nobody has to take an afternoon off work.

We return in January, take down every piece and leave the gutters the way we found them. No tubs for the attic. If a strand dies early, we come back and replace it.

Do Cresleigh Springs and the other Sunset West tracts have an association?

We didn’t find one. Neighborhood listings show no association fee. An individual attached tract could differ, so look at your own closing papers if you’re unsure.

How early can my lights go up in Sunset West?

With no association window to follow, as early as you like. Tell us the week you want and we’ll work toward it.

Is the Taft Drive display still going?

It has been listed in a local display directory, but we can’t confirm this year’s plans. Check a current listing before making the drive.

My lot is on a corner. Does that change Sunset West Christmas light installation?

Often, yes. Two sides face a street, so the side roofline and fence line may be worth lighting. Photos from both streets help us quote it.