Christmas light takedown and storage — why we keep your lights for next year

The most common surprise in our first conversation with new customers: we keep your lights. We install them, maintain them all season, take them down in January, and store them in our warehouse until next year. You don't own them, store them, repair them, or unbox them in October.

Here's why that model exists, and what changes when you sign up for it.

What gets stored

Every strand we install belongs to us. After the takedown visit, your lights go to a labeled bin in our climate-controlled Atlanta warehouse:

• LED bulbs and clips
• Timers and remote controls
• Extension cords cut to fit your specific runs
• Any wreaths, garland, or accents we installed

Your address is on the bin. Next year we pull the bin and install the same lights to the same plan.

Why this matters

1. You don't lose attic or garage space

The single most common complaint we hear about pre-existing lights: "I don't know where last year's clips are." Storing strands at home requires either careful labeling (almost no one does this) or accepting that next year is a partial reset. With us, it's already labeled and already inventoried.

2. Your lights are inspected and repaired in the off-season

Once your strands are back at our warehouse, we test them. Damaged sections get replaced. Connectors that are starting to corrode get swapped. By the time we redeploy your lights in October, every strand has been validated. You don't get to your front porch in November to find that half a roofline is dead.

3. Year-over-year consistency

If you liked last year's design, we install the same design. Same bulb count, same coverage, same accents. We don't re-quote, we don't re-measure, and we don't accidentally give you something different. Most of our Dunwoody and Sandy Springs customers re-book without a second walkthrough — they trust the design and they want it again.

4. The takedown is one phone call

You schedule it once in December. We come, we take everything down in a single visit, we leave. There's no December weekend on a ladder, no tangled strands going into a Rubbermaid bin, no "I'll deal with this in February" turning into August.

When we take lights down

Most of our takedowns happen in the first two weeks of January. We schedule the date with you in December so it's locked in. Commercial properties often want lights down by January 2; residential customers usually pick the first available weekend after New Year's.

The visit itself is fast — most homes take under two hours. Our crew brings the same labeled bins they'll use for storage, so strands go directly into the right container without an intermediate step.

What if I just want takedown of lights I already have?

We do this case by case. The challenge with takedown of lights we didn't install is that we don't know how the strands were run, where the connectors are, or what condition the existing system is in. We'll walk it with you and quote — sometimes that turns into a full conversion to our system, sometimes it's just a one-time service.

If you're thinking about converting from DIY or another installer, book a property walkthrough and we'll talk through what makes sense.