The rooflines in Milford come in two very different shapes. Up and down Walnut Street on both banks of the Mispillion, the two- and three-story brick and wood-frame houses carry steep gables and tall rooflines. Out by Route 1, the ranch, Cape Cod, and villa homes sit low with simple rooflines. Our team here at T&T Powerwash designs and installs holiday displays for both. Whether you’re on Walnut Street near the river or over in Hearthstone Manor, call us at (302) 415-3285 and we’ll build a look that fits your house.
Most of what we light in Milford is homes, with a commercial side as well. We can handle businesses such as grocery stores, restaurants, schools, and coffee shops.
You pick the colors and the look, and we fit the design to your house: roofline, trees and shrubs, columns, and walkways lit as one display. The lights are ours and we store them for you, because this is a service, not a product you buy. We install our own commercial-grade LED lights, never customer-supplied or incandescent, because it’s the only way we can promise a replacement bulb or line is always on the truck. Book by October if you can; the earlier you book, the more choice you have over your install date. November bookings usually go up in late November or early December, first come, first served, and we don’t keep a waitlist. Homes along Walnut Street often want their display lit by Thanksgiving weekend, so an earlier call helps there.
We light businesses too, and we work around your normal traffic so the install never gets in the way of a customer. We can handle places such as grocery stores, restaurants, schools, and coffee shops. There’s no multi-year contract on any of it. Lighting is season to season, so you come back next year because you want to.
Every display we hang uses our own commercial-grade, UL-listed LED lights, with C7 bulbs on the rooflines and mini lights for everything else. Here is what we put up.
Rooflines get C7 LED bulbs, and we clip every single one and face it up so the line stays crisp and symmetrical. A C7 is as bright as the older C9 bulb, if not brighter, and it nearly disappears in daylight. On the steep gables and tall rooflines along Walnut Street, that clean line is what you notice from the street.
On homes where the roofline sits out of easy reach, we run the lights along the gutter line and install them from a ladder. The single-story ranch and villa homes in Hearthstone Manor are a natural fit for this.
Bushes, trees, and hedges are hand-wrapped with mini lights. We don’t drape net lights over them; the wrap looks fuller and holds its shape through the season.
Tree trunks and canopies are hand-wrapped the same way, mini lights worked up the trunk and out into the branches.
We outline walkways and driveways with mini lights so the path to your door reads clearly after dark.
Wreaths are available while supplies last, hung where they finish off an entry or a window.
Garland is available while supplies last, run along railings, doorframes, and porch lines.
Columns are wrapped by hand with mini lights. The porch columns on the multi-story homes along South Walnut Street take the wrap well.
We can build a Christmas-tree-style display out of C7 bulbs when you want a centerpiece shape rather than a roofline run.
On commercial buildings we run C7 lines along the flat rooflines, sized to the length of the roof.
Colors are up to you. Warm white is the most common, and we also carry cool white, pure white, multi-color, red and white, red, green, and white, and most single colors.
If you’d rather not think about holiday lights at all, we also install permanent lighting that stays up all year. We install MinLeon Permanent Lighting, which in our experience is the top-of-the-line permanent system:
That color-changing is the permanent system’s own trick; seasonal lights stay a fixed color. We sit down and train you on the app the day we install, and most issues after that we can sort out remotely. Because you’ll want to see it before you buy it, we quote permanent lighting in person and build a custom mock-up for your home. It’s available for houses and commercial buildings alike.
A few things come up again and again in what our customers tell us, and they’re the standards we hold on every install.
Our holiday lighting is completely no-contract and fully done-for-you. We design it, install it, maintain it all season, take it down, and store it. All you do is pick the look. Come back next season because you want to, not because you signed something the year before.
Two words come up in our Google reviews more than any others: responsiveness and communication. We answer the phone, and we text you a quote you can approve in one tap. You get a prep checklist before we come and a heads-up when we’re on our way, and if we’re running late, you’ll hear it from us first. The person who quotes and schedules your job is the person you’ll be talking to.
With 500+ five-star Google reviews, we have more reviews than nearly any exterior cleaning company in Delaware, and every one was earned one property at a time. The same crew and the same standards go up on your roofline.
We’re a locally owned company built by two friends, and we treat every property in Milford like it’s in our own backyard. We started in 2021 with a hand-built pressure washer and about a hundred dollars of parts, and we’ve built the rest one job at a time since.
Every estimate is free. Most can be done right from your address and a couple of photos. We’re fully licensed and insured, and our technicians show up in uniform in a branded T&T truck. That coverage includes general liability, workers’ compensation, and commercial auto.
Here’s the whole thing, start to finish, so you know what to expect before you call.
Call, text, or fill out the form and tell us what you’re picturing. For a roofline-only job we can give you a rough number from an aerial or street view. Trees, wreaths, and other add-ons need a closer look first.
We take photos of your house and draw the design right onto one of them, often two or three versions at different budgets. You see them on the spot, and they come with the written quote so you can sit with the options.
Approve the quote through the link we send, put down a deposit to hold the work, and we lock your install date in by text.
On install day we custom-fit everything to your home, working the roofline from a lift on most roof types and running gutter-line lights from a ladder. Milford sits inland and runs colder than the coast, so we aim to get installs up before hard freezes stiffen the cable and clips.
If a bulb or a line goes out during the season, tell us and we come back and fix it at no extra charge. New issue reports close about two days before Christmas Eve so we can get to everyone in time.
We take everything down by the end of January, mid-February at the latest if you ask. The takedown gets scheduled by text, the same way we scheduled the install.
The lights go back with us and we store them until next year, so you never own or stash anything. When you come back, the reinstall costs less than the first season did.
We price by the foot of lights plus how involved the design is, and the estimate is always free.
A few things that affect what you pay:
Two promises, one for each kind of lighting.
Your lights are guaranteed to look right and be fully lit by Christmas, with full-season coverage on any bulb or line issue, handled within 24 to 48 hours. The maintenance is part of the service, not something we tack on.
Permanent lighting is backed by a 3-year warranty on track and light failures, backed by us directly, not a manufacturer hotline. The one thing it doesn’t cover is a change to your home Wi-Fi, the router, password, or network name, which needs a quick reconnection visit.
Milford keeps its holidays downtown. Santa arrives on Walnut Street and City Hall lights its tree the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The Holiday Stroll fills Walnut Street on the first Saturday of December, with a Christmas Market down at the Mispillion Riverwalk. We light homes on both sides of the river and out past Route 1. We build displays that hold up close, for the neighbors walking by, not just from the road. These are the spots people pass on the way to the stroll:
We work most on the Walnut Street houses north and south of the river, and the single-story homes in Hearthstone Manor off Route 1.
Getting a quote is quick and free. We can rough it out from your address, then draw you a mock-up once we’ve had a look at the house. Whether it’s a tall Walnut Street roofline or a quick gutter-line run, we’ll price it and get you on the schedule. Call us at (302) 415-3285.
