Aqua-Bright at a glance
- Systems are designed around Hunter Industries irrigation products
- 7-year warranty on all installations, covering parts and labor
- Controllers adjust to weather conditions automatically
- Micro-drip systems available for condos, penthouses, and potted-plant balconies
- Single-service and seasonal service plans, including for systems installed by other contractors
Why Germantown homeowners hire out their lights
The holiday season is when most families are at their busiest: dinners to plan, presents to buy, family to entertain. The outdoor lights are often the first thing to slip, or the job that eats a cold Saturday.
The other reason is safety. Climbing a ladder in chilly weather with ice around is not most people's idea of a good afternoon. Professional holiday lighting crews put lights high on houses every season and bring the equipment to do it quickly and safely.
What a professional holiday lighting service includes
Aqua-Bright Irrigation & Illumination's residential holiday lighting service is a useful benchmark for what to expect from a full-service Christmas lighting company:
- Custom design. Aqua-Bright's designers work with the homeowner on a display that fits their taste, whether that is whimsical or an elegant glow.
- The displays themselves. Lighting displays, roof displays, wreaths, and wrapped trees and bushes.
- White or colored LEDs. Both are energy-efficient LEDs.
- Installation. Aqua-Bright aims for a quick, clean, worry-free installation.
- Take-down. Once the holiday season is over, the crew comes back to remove the lights.
- Year-round option. If you want lights up all year, Aqua-Bright offers maintenance service instead.
One detail that is easy to miss: with Aqua-Bright, once the lights are installed they are the customer's to keep. In later years you pay for labor and maintenance rather than a new set of lights.
Questions to ask before booking
- Will a designer help plan the display, or do I need to bring a plan?
- Do you use LED lights, and can I choose white, colored or both?
- Is removal after the season part of the service?
- Who owns the lights after installation?
- Can the display stay up year-round with maintenance?
- Do you also work on commercial properties, if I need a business decorated?
Aqua-Bright and Germantown
Aqua-Bright already works in Germantown: it has a dedicated Germantown irrigation service. Its holiday lighting service is residential, with a separate commercial holiday lighting service for businesses. Aqua-Bright's main service areas include Montgomery County, Howard County, Washington DC, Annapolis and Baltimore, and the published holiday service-area list covers a range of Montgomery County communities including Gaithersburg, Rockville, Potomac and Bethesda. Germantown homeowners should call to confirm scheduling for their street.
White, colored, or both
One of the first design decisions a holiday lighting company will ask about is color. Aqua-Bright installs both white and colored LED holiday lights. White tends to read as calm and architectural, following the lines of the house. Colored lights read as classic and playful, the look many people grew up with.
Mixing the two can work well when it is planned, for example white along the roofline and color in the trees and bushes. Deciding this early, during the design conversation, keeps the whole display consistent from the roof to the front walk.
Because the lights are LEDs, they are energy-efficient, which matters for a display that runs every evening through the season.