Removal & Storage in Sevierville, TN

Takedown runs through January, weather permitting. We work in route order by area rather than by request date, which keeps costs down and is part of why the service is included instead of billed.

If you need lights off by a specific date — a listing photo shoot, an event, an HOA rule — tell us and we will put you at the front of the route.

Ice and heavy rain push the schedule. We are not putting a crew on a frozen two-story roof to hit a date, and no reasonable customer has ever asked us to.

Clips, stakes, timers, extension runs, tree wrap, greenery, hardware — all of it comes off. A surprising number of people who have used other companies still have clips on their gutters from three seasons ago.

We walk the property afterward and check the roof edge, the yard and the beds for anything dropped. If we scuffed something, we tell you rather than hoping you do not notice.

Photos of the cleared property go in your file, mostly so year-over-year we can see if anything on the house changed.

Attic and garage storage is what kills consumer light sets. Summer heat in an attic degrades wire insulation and bulb seals, and a bin that gets shoved around cracks sockets.

Ours come back to a warehouse, get tested run by run, and anything marginal gets repaired or replaced before it goes on the rack. That is why a returning customer's display goes up faster and fails less than a homeowner-owned set of the same age.

Each set is boxed and labeled by property, cut to your rooflines, so next September the crew is hanging known-good product measured for your house.

Clips get unclipped by hand, one at a time, in the reverse order they went on. We do not yank a strand and drag clips off in a bundle, because that is exactly how a gutter clip cracks fascia paint or a shingle clip lifts a tab that then leaks in February.

January roofs around here are often wet, sometimes icy on shaded north-facing sections, and that changes footing and pace more than it changes the actual technique. Crews take shaded pitches slower and will reschedule a specific roof section rather than rush it.

We treat gutters the same on the way off as the way on — no standing on the gutter itself, no leaning ladders against it under load. It is a small habit that is the difference between a gutter lasting fifteen years and one that starts sagging after three.

The math seems simple — a bin in the garage costs nothing — but the failure rate tells the real story. Consumer strands wadded into a tote lose 10 to 20 percent of bulbs or a full section to a bad connection by the following year, and untangling it costs an evening most people would rather not spend.

Heat is the bigger enemy than cold. A garage or attic in a Tennessee July regularly exceeds 120 degrees, which is well past what cheap wire insulation and rubber bulb seals are rated for, and that damage happens whether or not you ever notice it until the strand goes dark in November.

Our storage facility is climate-controlled specifically to avoid that failure mode, and because we inspect and repair before storing rather than after pulling it back out, a marginal connection gets caught in January instead of discovered on your roof in November.

Leased lights are not simply boxed and forgotten for nine months. Every set gets run-tested after takedown, and anything with a flickering section, a loose plug or a bulb below spec gets pulled and repaired on our bench before it goes back on the rack.

Wire that was cut to your exact rooflines stays cut to those measurements and labeled with your address, so a change in your house — a new addition, a removed tree — is the only reason we would need to remeasure before your next install.

Between seasons the material is our liability and our cost to maintain, which is part of what you are actually paying for in the lease — not just the labor on install day, but the fact that a professionally stored, tested strand is a different product than the one sitting in your garage would have become.