Christmas Light Installation (plug-in)

Front roofline plus two front-yard maples. Tech split the run across two GFCI outlets because the bulb count would have tripped a single one — explained the math before plugging anything in. Clean warm white through the whole season, no outages, no breaker resets. Took it down on January eleven, everything in labeled bins.

Six shrubs along the front walk plus a single trunk wrap on the dogwood. Used to do this myself every year and the rope lights looked terrible by mid-December. The tech used green wire on the shrubs and brown wire on the dogwood trunk — the daytime view actually looks like landscaping, not strands. Three windstorms in and nothing has moved.

Permanent track lighting on the front and side elevations of a Lake Washington two-story. Handis did the track mounting, their electrician handled the hardwired circuit from the panel. Both crews on site the same week, coordinated through Handis, single point of contact. The system runs holiday colors in December, warm white the rest of the year, controlled from the phone.

1924 bungalow with no real gutters — just an open shingle edge. The tech had all-in-one clips on the truck that grip the shingle plus the strand. Front roofline traced clean for the season, no strand drops in three windstorms. Most companies told me they could not install on this kind of edge.

My existing strands from last year half-worked. Two strands dim, one strand dead. Tech tested each strand against the circuit, identified the three with water-intruded sockets, replaced them from the truck, and reinstalled the rest. Did not try to upsell me on a full replacement when half the set was fine.