Design, Install, Maintain, Take Down, Store
We handle the season, not just the install day. It starts with a consult at your property — the roofline, the peaks, the entrance, the trees, and what you actually want it to look like from the road. We design to that. Then we hang it, keep it running through the season, take it down when the season is over, and deal with the storage.
The reason to hire this out isn't the hanging. It's everything after. Lights fail in January. Wind off the bay pulls a run loose. Ice loads a clip and a section goes dark. If you did it yourself, that's you back up a ladder in February. If we did it, it's a phone call.
- Consult — we walk the property with you and look at the roofline you actually have
- Design — a plan for the peaks, eaves, entrance and features worth lighting
- Installation — scheduled in the window between leaf-drop and the first hard freeze
- In-season maintenance — something goes dark, we come back out
- Takedown — scheduled at the end of the season, off your list entirely
- Storage — the lights come down and get handled, not left in a bin in your garage
The Crew That Already Knows Your Roofline
We've been on Georgian Bay rooflines since 2012 — cleaning glass, clearing gutters, working eaves and peaks on more than 2,000 properties across 14 communities. We are not a seasonal crew filling a winter gap. Working at height is the job we do the other eleven months of the year.
That matters more than it sounds. We already know how to plan access on a steep pitch, where the safe working points are, and what your fascia and gutters can take in cold weather. On a lot of properties around here we've already been up there for a window or gutter job — which means we know the roofline before we quote the lights.
Storefronts, Condo Entrances and Commercial Buildings
Commercial is the same service on a tighter clock. Storefronts want lights up before the shopping season starts, not during it. Condo boards and property managers want the entrance and the front elevation looking right for residents and guests, on a schedule they can hand to the board, with the insurance paperwork in hand before anyone leaves the ground.
$2M general liability. WSIB on every worker. Same documentation we bring to any commercial or property-management job, and we can get it to your manager before anything is scheduled.
Book in Early Fall. That's the Whole Trick.
Installation season here is short. It runs from the end of the leaves to the first hard freeze, and every install has to land inside that window. There are only so many crew days in it, and they get spoken for.
Book in early fall — September into October — and you pick your date. Wait until the first snow and you're calling every company in the region on the same day everyone else has the same idea. Most of our work gets booked within the week; holiday lights are the one service where that doesn't hold, because the calendar itself runs out.
Nobody Should Be on a Ladder in the Snow
Here's what December looks like on a roofline in Collingwood: frozen ground, iced eaves, snow on the shingles, and a lake-effect squall that arrives while you're twenty feet up holding an extension cord. Ladder feet slide on ice. A gutter that held your weight in October is brittle in January. Freeze-thaw does the rest.
Getting the strand up in October on a one-storey bungalow isn't the hard part. The peak is. The second storey is. The mid-season callback during a cold snap is. That's the part worth paying someone insured and WSIB-covered to do — someone who works at height for a living and has certified rope access for the rooflines a ladder has no business on.
Cottages, Second Homes and Owners Who Aren't Here Yet
A lot of Georgian Bay properties get lit for a season their owners only see part of. You come up for the holidays, you want the place looking right when you pull in the driveway, and you don't want to spend your first afternoon on a ladder or your last one pulling everything down in the cold.
We already work around cottage opening and closing schedules the rest of the year. Same idea here. We install on our schedule, you arrive to it finished, and takedown gets booked for after you've headed home.
One crew for the whole winter
The crew that hangs your lights in November can be the same one clearing your driveway in January. Our per-visit snow clearing runs a tight map — the Collingwood–Blue Mountains core only — so the machine is close by when the lake-effect squalls roll in off the bay.
Book the lights with a fall gutter clean and spring takedown, and that's the Snowbelt Bundle. Lights customers get the easiest winter: same streets, same crew, one number to text when the snow lands.
The Snowbelt Bundle
One call covers the cold season. Gutters cleared before freeze-up. Lights clipped up in November, down in spring. And in between, snow clearing whenever you need it — $80 a visit for a single-car driveway, $115 for a double, salt included, walkways $25 on top. One crew that already knows your property, and the ladders and the heavy clearing are ours.
- Fall gutter clean — done before freeze-up, so meltwater has somewhere to go.
- Christmas lights install — clip-on, run off your existing outdoor outlets, up in November.
- Snow clearing all winter — $80 a visit for a single-car driveway, $115 double, salt included. Walkways $25 with any driveway visit.
- Spring wrap-up — lights down and packed, plus a first window clean when the melt is done.