Milton’s bigger homes carry some of the most involved rooflines around, with mansard tops, Queen Anne towers, and gable after gable. Plenty of them wrap a full porch across the front too. The newer streets echo that look, so you get those same deep front porches on houses built to match. Our team at T&T Powerwash designs and installs holiday displays on homes like these, from the roofline all the way down to the porch columns. Whether you’re on Federal Street or out in Heritage Creek, call us at (302) 415-3285 and we’ll put a design together.
Most of our Milton lighting is for homes, with a commercial side alongside it. Both get the same commercial-grade lights and the same crew standard. What changes is the scheduling.
A home install is one design that ties the roofline together with the yard: trees, shrubs, columns, and walkways in whatever combination fits the house. The lights are ours, not something you buy, and we store them between seasons, so it’s a service you book each season rather than a product you own. They go up in the fall, come down after the holidays, and go back up the next year if you want them. The biggest designs are the Federal Street homes, where a wraparound porch and a complex roofline mean more pieces to hang.
On the commercial side we light flat rooflines and work around your normal business hours, so your customers never notice the install. We can light businesses such as grocery stores, schools, and the restaurants and coffee shops downtown along Union Street. We bring lift access for the taller buildings, and we can send a certificate of insurance whenever you need one.
Every light we hang is our own commercial-grade LED, and we handle all of it: design, install, upkeep, takedown, and storage. Pick any mix of the looks below.
C7 LED bulbs run your roofline, as bright as the older C9s and nearly invisible by day. On the steep cross-gable homes here, that puts a lit peak on every run.
Prefer the lights along the gutter line instead? We install those from a ladder, with no roof work.
We hand-wrap bushes, trees, and hedges in mini lights, strand by strand.
Minis wrap up the trunk and into the canopy to light a tree top to bottom.
We outline walkways and driveways in mini lights to carry the display out to the curb.
Wreaths and garland are available while supplies last.
Porch columns get hand-wrapped in minis, which suits the full front porches on a lot of the newer homes here.
We also build tree-shaped displays out of C7 bulbs.
For businesses, we run C7 bulbs along flat commercial rooflines.
Two bulb types cover all of it, C7s and minis, and every one is UL-listed LED. Colors run warm white (the most popular), cool white, pure white, multi-color, red and white, red, green, and white, and most single colors, all fixed for the season. We install only our own lights, never customer-supplied or incandescent, because it’s the one way we can keep a spare bulb or line on the truck for yours. Book by October if you can; the earlier you book, the more say you have over your install date.
If you’d rather not put lights up and take them down every year, we also install permanent lighting on homes and commercial buildings. In our experience, MinLeon Permanent Lighting is about as good as a permanent system gets:
We train you on the app when we install, and most issues we can sort out remotely.
A few things come up again and again when customers talk about working with us. They’re the standards we hold on every install.
Two words show up in our Google reviews more than any others: responsiveness and communication. We pick up the phone, we text you a quote you can approve with one tap, and you get a heads-up when we’re on our way. If we’re ever running behind, you’ll hear it from us first.
We’ve earned more than 500 five-star Google reviews, more than nearly any exterior cleaning company in Delaware, and every one came one property at a time.
Our holiday lighting is completely no-contract and fully done for you. We design it, install it, keep it running all season, take it down, and store it, and all you do is choose the look. Come back next season because you want to, not because you signed something.
A roofline only looks right when the line stays crisp and even, and that holds up whether you’re across the street or standing on the porch. Some crews face bulbs down or skip clips to save time, and it shows by the end of the season. Ours stays put.
You see the design on a photo of your actual house before you spend a dollar, so there’s no guessing how it will look. Most of the time we’ll show you two or three versions at different budgets and let you pick the one you want.
Every estimate is free, and most we can put together 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 truck.
Here is how a season goes with us, from the first call to the day we pack your lights away for the year.
Call, text, or fill out the form. We can usually put a rough number together from an aerial or street view of your home. Roofline-only jobs quote fast; trees, wreaths, and other add-ons need a closer look.
Next we take photos of your house and draw the design right on them in our design app, so you’re looking at your own home with the lights on. We show you on the spot and send it along with the quote.
Your quote comes as a link you can approve in one tap, and we set your install date by text.
On install day we custom-fit everything to the house, clipping each roofline bulb on one at a time and facing it up so the line sits straight. We run gutter lines off a ladder and bring a lift for the steeper, taller rooflines. Milton’s mansard roofs, towers, and multiple gables are often lift work.
If a bulb or a line goes out during the season, tell us and we’ll take care of it. The upkeep is included, so there’s nothing extra to buy.
We take everything down by the end of January, or mid-February at the latest if you ask, and we schedule it by text.
Then we store it all until next year, when the whole thing starts again at step one.
Lighting is priced by the foot above a minimum, plus how involved the design is. You get your number after the remote look or the on-site mock-up.
A few things worth knowing on cost:
Two promises come with your lights.
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. New issues can be reported up to about two days before Christmas Eve.
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 leaves out is a change to your home Wi-Fi, which needs a reconnection visit.
December is a real season in Milton. The Holly Festival lands on a Saturday in early-to-mid December and celebrates the town’s roots in Delaware’s holly-wreath trade. The Milton Century Club follows it with a Holiday House Tour of decorated homes. We’re glad to help homes here look their best while all of that is going on. The festival and its wreath-making demonstration center on a handful of spots downtown:
The houses with the most to light sit along Federal Street and on Union, Broad, and Chestnut, with more porches out in Heritage Creek and Cannery Village.
A quote is quick and free. We can pull a rough number from your address and then show you a mock-up on your own house, seasonal or permanent, for a home or a storefront. From a tower on Federal Street to a porch over in Cannery Village, call (302) 415-3285 and we’ll take it from there.
