Seasonal & Holiday Services
Handis seasonal and holiday services cover the three weather-driven visit families a Seattle home actually needs across the year — holiday lighting installs and takedown, fall winterization, and spring/summer prep — from $200 for a single hose-bib insulation up to $9,000 for a full commercial holiday décor program. The list nobody books until it is too late. Lights still on the roofline in February because the ladder felt sketchy on wet shingles in January. Hose bib never insulated because the first cold snap came three weeks earlier than expected. Gutters overflowing every November because the September visit slipped past. We turn the seasonal punch-list into actual visits on the calendar, scheduled to the Pacific Northwest year rather than a generic national template.
Services
What Handis Seasonal & Holiday Services Cover
Seasonal and holiday services are the residential visits that only happen at a specific time of year — holiday lights up in November and down in January, hose bibs insulated before the first hard freeze in late November, gutters cleared after the last leaves drop, deck reset after the rains taper in late April. Three families, every visit scheduled to the actual Pacific Northwest weather window, all built on the same vetted handyman crew. We do the work that fits the handyman trade — hardwired electrical (permanent track-lighting circuits), gas, in-wall plumbing supply or drain, and structural roof repair live outside this trade and route to a licensed Washington L&I contractor or electrician when a job crosses that line.
Holiday Lighting
Plug-in holiday lights on rooflines, trees, and shrubs from late October through Thanksgiving, full takedown and labeled storage in January, permanent track lighting on the soffit with the hardwired circuit subbed to a licensed Washington L&I electrician, and full commercial holiday décor programs for HOAs, office parks, and retail centers. We do the install and the takedown — your strands or ours, your storage bins labeled by elevation, no tangled spaghetti in the garage attic in November. From $250 for a takedown-and-storage visit on an existing single-story install.
Holiday Lighting — plug-in installs, takedown and storage, permanent track lighting, commercial décor
Winterization
Fall winterization visits scheduled September through mid-November before the first sustained cold: hose-bib covers and shutoff verification, gutter and downspout clear, dryer-vent screen, weatherstripping refresh on entry doors, sump-pump test, irrigation blow-out when a backflow valve is on the system, and full snowbird-property prep for homes vacant October through April. From $200 for a hose-bib insulation pass on a standard four-bib house.
Winterization — hose bibs, gutters, weatherstripping, sump pump, snowbird prep
Spring / Summer Prep
The post-winter reset that mirrors the fall visit — gutter clean again, hose-bib uncap, screen reinstall, deck inspection and screwdown, stain or seal when the boards have dried, moss treatment on north-facing roof slopes and walkways, AC condenser clear if a heat pump is on the property, and a full perimeter walk to log what the winter broke. From $250 for a standalone spring screen-and-bib reset; full spring packages run $450 and up.
Spring / Summer Prep — spring reset, deck care, screens, moss treatment, AC clear
Seasonal & Holiday Services Pricing
Pricing depends on the property size, the linear footage of roofline or the number of trees and shrubs for holiday work, and how many fixtures or hose bibs a winterization visit covers. Each sub-category page has detailed pricing for that family. Request a free estimate for an accurate quote.
Tell us the property and the season — we will quote the visits for the year.
Why Seattle Homeowners Book Handis for Seasonal Work
Seasonal work fails on timing as much as on craft. Holiday lights booked in mid-December are already late — by then half the crews in Seattle are sold out and ladders on wet shingles after Thanksgiving are a real injury risk. Winterization booked after the first hard freeze is also late — split pipes do not unsplit. Spring deck care booked in March is too early — the boards are still saturated and stain peels off the next dry week. We schedule the visits to the weather window each family actually needs, hold the crew assignment year to year so the tech who hung your lights last December is the one taking them down in January, and tell you on the call whether what you want fits the trade or routes to a licensed Washington L&I contractor.
Booked to the Pacific Northwest weather window, not a national calendar
Holiday installs open in mid-October and close before Thanksgiving — well before the dark-by-4:30 PM December rains make ladder work miserable and slow. Winterization runs September to mid-November before the first sustained cold drops below freezing. Spring reset visits land mid-April to late May after the heavy March rains taper and the deck boards finally dry. The schedule bends to the weather, not the other way around.
Same tech, same notes, year over year
Holiday programs especially benefit from continuity — the same tech who measured your roofline for clip count last November pulls up the same notes this October. Strand counts, circuit map, the bedroom-window clip that needs the longer stake — all of it logged. New crew members get the file before they walk up the driveway.
Honest scope on holiday electrical — handyman vs licensed electrician
Plug-in holiday lights are handyman scope. Permanent track-lighting systems (the year-round soffit-mounted programmable LED tracks) require a hardwired circuit — that wiring is sub-contracted to a licensed Washington L&I electrician. Handis handles the track mounting, the channel install, the plug-in segments, and the app/controller setup; the electrician handles the hardwired circuit from the panel to the soffit. We coordinate the schedule and stand for the install quality.
Storage labeled by elevation, not by box
Holiday takedown is half the job. We pull the strands without yanking the clips, coil snake-coil rather than figure-eight to prevent kink memory, and store everything in UV-coated bins labeled by elevation — front roofline, garage gable, west tree, walkway shrubs. Next October the install starts from the right bin instead of an hour of untangling.
Insured, background-checked, 30-day workmanship guarantee
Every Handis handyman carries liability insurance and has cleared a background screening before the first job. The 30-day workmanship guarantee applies the same as any other Handis call — if a clip pops, a hose-bib cover slides off, a deck screw backs out, or a roofline strand sags because of our install, we come back and fix it at no extra charge.
Estimate
Tell us the property size, roughly which family you are thinking about (holiday lighting, winterization, spring/summer prep), and any specifics — roofline footage, number of trees to wrap, snowbird dates, whether you want the permanent-track option. We send a clear estimate for the visit or the season.
What Our Customers Say
Recent seasonal and holiday services reviews from verified Seattle-area customers.
Booked the roofline install in early November, takedown the second week of January. Same tech both visits. Clean white LEDs straight along the fascia for two months, no drooping strands, no blown bulbs. Strands came down in storage bins labeled front roofline and garage gable. Ready to plug in again next October without an hour of untangling.
Snowbird program. We left for Tucson in mid-October. Handis did the full winterization that week — bibs, gutters, weatherstrip, sump pump test, thermostat dropped to fifty-five, photo report in our inbox by dinnertime. Weekly check through the winter caught a small roof leak after a December storm before it ever soaked the attic insulation. Came back in April to put it all back together.
We have eight shrubs and two maples along the front walk. The tech measured the spread before he ordered the strand count, used green wire on the shrubs so the daytime view is not just orange cord. LEDs are warm white, on a timer, and have run flawlessly through three windstorms. Worth every dollar to not get on a ladder in November rain.
Spring reset visit on a Bellevue split-level. Tech reinstalled three window screens, pulled the hose-bib covers, walked the deck and screwed down seven loose boards, treated the moss patch on the north slope walkway, and cleared two downspouts that the fall visit had missed. Photo report had eleven before-and-after shots. Whole thing took under three hours.
HOA board hired Handis for the front entrance and clubhouse holiday décor — three large trees, the clubhouse roofline, two flagpoles wrapped, garland along the entry sign. Crew showed up in mid-November, installed in one day, took it down on January eight. Storage bins all labeled. We did not get a single complaint from a homeowner, which never happens.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Handis seasonal and holiday services — pricing, scheduling, scope, what fits the handyman trade, and what routes to a licensed Washington L&I electrician or contractor.