Tree & Landscape Lighting · Barrie

Tree and Landscape Holiday Lighting in Barrie

In Barrie the trees are often the most striking part of a lit house: a mature maple out front in Allandale, a spruce on a corner lot in Letitia Heights, the cedar hedges that line so many subdivision driveways.

Tree and landscape lighting is about the shapes the house does not have. A wrapped maple trunk with its main branches lit reads from the end of the street; a row of cedars in warm white frames a driveway; a garland and wreath on a porch railing finishes an older house. It is quoted with the roofline or on its own.

What is lit

• Deciduous trees. Trunks wrapped tight from the ground up, and the main branches wrapped out as far as can be reached safely. On a bare maple or oak this is the classic look.
• Evergreens. Spruce, pine and cedar draped or wound top to bottom. Barrie's corner-lot spruce are often tall enough that only the lower two-thirds can be reached from the ground or a ladder.
• Shrubs and hedges. Net lights or wound strings on cedars, boxwood and junipers.
• Walkways and driveways. Stake lights along a path, set where the snowblower and the City plow windrow will not take them.
• Wreaths and garland. Lit or unlit, on doors, porch railings, columns and above the garage.

Power lines come first

The Electrical Safety Authority's advice is to check for overhead power lines before using a ladder or decorating an outdoor tree, and to stay at least three metres away from them. On older Barrie streets the service drop to the house often runs through the front tree. The parts of the tree within that distance are not lit, and the installer will show you where the line is before quoting. If a tree is overgrown into the line, that is a matter for the utility, not for a decorator.

Snow, plows and wind

Ground-level lights in Barrie get buried. Stake lights and walkway runs are placed and secured with the snow in mind: back from the edge of the driveway, out of the line of the blower chute, and with connections lifted off the ground as ESA advises so meltwater does not pool around them. Tree wraps are tied off to hold in a winter wind, and the lower connections on a tree are kept above the expected snowbank.

Takedown

Tree wraps and landscape lights come down with the roofline in January. Wraps on a frozen trunk are unwound carefully so the bark is not damaged, and anything frozen into a snowbank is left until it can be freed rather than pulled.

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