Sutter Creek Christmas Light Installation

Every December the Parade of Lights rolls down Main Street, and shop owners on that stretch need their lights up and working well before the crowd shows. That’s most of why folks call us for Sutter Creek Christmas light installation. We’re based just up Highway 49 in Plymouth, so it’s a short drive, and we’d rather get your building lit in early November than scramble the week of the parade. Call (209) 444-1844 and we’ll price it by phone.

The old brick and wood buildings downtown are a pleasure to light, but they take some care. A lot of those facades have been standing since the Gold Rush, and nobody wants holes drilled into hundred-year-old brick for a few weeks of holiday lighting. So we don’t. We run strands along wood fascia, awning frames and balcony rails, and we use clips and ties that come off clean. On the covered porches and second-story balconies along Main Street, lit garland wrapped around the posts and rails does a lot of the work, and a lit wreath over the door ties it together.

Shop owners also care about timing and power. Most storefronts only have one or two outdoor outlets, so we plan the runs so nothing is overloaded and the cords stay out of the walkway where people are strolling with coffee. Then everything goes on a timer. You lock up at five, the lights come on at dusk, and you never think about it. If you run a business in town, our commercial Christmas lighting page has more on storefronts and offices.

Once you get off Main Street, Sutter Creek houses are all over the map, and each part of town asks for something a little different.

The older homes along Spanish Street and the side streets near downtown tend to have steep gables, wood siding and deep front porches. Those rooflines look great outlined in warm white, and the porch columns are perfect for pillar wraps. The clips hook the gutter or slide under the shingle edge, so the trim you’ve been painting for years stays in one piece.

Around Golden Hills Drive and Mesa de Oro, homes run from cozy single-stories to good-sized family houses. The single-story places are quick to outline eave to eave, the two-story ones just take a taller ladder, and there’s often room along the driveway for a row of stake lights. We mark the sprinkler heads before we set a single stake. A lot of our calls from Mesa de Oro are simple: roofline, wreath, timer.

Sutter Hill sits between town and Jackson, and a lot of those places look out over the hills. When your house is seen from the road below, a clean roofline outline reads from a long way off. On the bigger lots out Gopher Flat Road and along Allen Ranch Road, we spend more time on the yard itself: wrapping oak trunks, lighting the fence line near the gate, maybe a wreath on the mailbox post. A ranch house on a few acres doesn’t need every inch covered. It needs a few spots done right.

North on 49, the homes toward Amador City sit on older, tighter lots, much like the side streets here, and to the south the Martell side is newer and flatter, with room for stakes along every walk.

Downtown it’s mostly garland on the balcony rails, wraps on those old wooden balcony supports, and wreaths over the doors. At home it’s usually the roofline, an oak or a crape myrtle wrapped from the ground into the first limbs, and stakes up the walk or the drive. Big pines get the trunk and the lower limbs we can reach safely and nothing higher. Tile roofs get clips made for tile. Every light is ours, so you don’t buy a thing or spend an afternoon untangling last year’s mess on the living room floor.

Sutter Creek gets real cold nights in December, and every so often a storm blows through with enough wind to test everything on the roof. Our clips hold, but if a strand or section does go dark, call and we’ll fix it. That’s on us.

Come January, the crew swings by again and pulls every strand. Nothing left clipped to your gutters into spring, no bins of lights stacked in the garage. We’re doing the same work over in Jackson and down in Amador City, so we’re around the area all season.

Estimates are free, and one phone call about the size of the house or storefront and what you’d like lit is usually enough for a solid number. Main Street businesses, call early so you’re set before the parade. Homeowners, November fills up faster than you’d think. Parade weekend comes fast, so call (209) 444-1844, or send us a note and a couple of photos on our contact page. Businesses on Main Street can reach the crew directly at (209) 444-1844.