Generated photograph, not a photo of our work.
Winter
It is February and nobody is on a ladder
Dark at half four, snow on the ground until April, and the one Saturday a year you would have picked to hang lights is already behind you. This is the half of the argument the pretty October photographs leave out.
The honest answers
Four things people ask us in November
Does it stay up all winter?
It stays up permanently, which includes winter. Minleon builds these strings for four season, year round use and puts extra insulation on the wire. They are not seasonal strands that somebody left on the roof.
What happens when it snows on it?
The fixtures sit inside a channel under the shingle edge rather than clipped to the gutter, so snow sliding off the roof goes past them. Snow on the ground does something nice: it bounces the light back at the house, and a lit frontage over fresh snow is the best this system ever looks.
If something quits in January?
We come out. The strings use a double data line, so one bad pixel does not take the rest of the run down with it: the lights stay on and we replace the bulb when we get there. You are not standing on a ladder in February and you are not looking at a dark house until spring.
Is it only for Christmas?
Christmas is about three weeks of it. The rest of the winter it is warm white, which reads as architectural lighting, or full white when you want to see who just pulled into the drive. Around here that is five o'clock onward from November.
Two Januaries
The one you have had, and this one
The old January: the strands come down in the coldest two weeks of the year, half of them do not work, they go in a tote, and the house is dark until next December.
This January: nothing comes down. On the first of the month the red and green goes off and the warm white comes on, from the couch, and the frontage is lit every night until the snow melts.
Why we go on about it
We install in this weather too
Colonel Zips is based in Gould City and works across Michigan's Eastern Upper Peninsula. We are not driving up from downstate to photograph a job in October and leaving you with a phone number. The ladder work in January is ours, and the reason we would rather sell you a system that does not need any is that we are the ones who would be on it.
Book a measure
Get a real number, not a guess
Lighting is priced off your actual roofline, so we come and measure it. Every house is a different length of run, a different number of gables, and a different climb. Anyone quoting you from a desk is guessing.
- We measure the roofline on site. That is the only way the number is real.
- You get the price in writing, with what it covers.
- No deposit to get a number, and no obligation after you have one.
Would rather talk? (906) 291-1601. We work across Michigan's Eastern Upper Peninsula.
