What yard lighting involves on a New Westminster lot
Most of the work is a front tree, a hedge or a row of cedars. Bare trunks and limbs look best wrapped closely. Evergreens and cedars look better with strands draped through the branches from the top down. Hedges get nets so they don't look patchy when lit.
Everything runs on outdoor-rated cord to a timer, so the yard switches on and off without you. Most yards take an hour or two on top of the house lights. Large trees take longer.
This suits you if you are done with the ladder, or if you have bins of lights in the garage and no wish to wrestle them through a tree again. We hang yours if they work. If a strand has died, or you would rather not dig the bins out, we supply lights.
Steep streets, heritage trim and old wiring
New Westminster has some of the oldest housing in the region. In Queen's Park and Sapperton, Victorian and Edwardian houses sit on steep, narrow lots. Porches and detailed trim should never be nailed or stapled, so we use clips only.
The hill makes ladder access tight on many streets. How high we can go on a tree depends on where a ladder can stand safely and what is under it. Send a photo and we will tell you what is possible.
Older houses often have few outdoor plugs. Before you book, we tell you how the cords would run, so you aren't left with cords across the lawn and walkway. Dry fall days suit the steep lots around the hill best. If roof work is booked with the yard and the roof is slick or windy, we move the roof and keep the yard on track.
How booking and pricing work
You hire us for one job. Install, repair and removal can each be booked alone, even on lights someone else hung. A dead strand buried in the middle of a tree is a repair call, not a reason to redo the yard.
Price depends on a few things.
- how many trees, hedges and shrubs you want lit
- how tall the trees are and how a ladder can reach them
- how far the cords run to a plug
- whether you supply the lights or we do
A photo of the yard lets us say more before you book. Removal happens in January. Lights come off the branches loosely, which matters because lights left wrapped on a growing limb all year are what cause damage.
We also work with stratas, low-rise condos and storefronts. In Queensborough, many townhouses are under strata rules, so check what your council allows before we start.
