What In-Season Maintenance Covers.

Holiday lighting is one of the few things attached to a house that is expected to perform flawlessly, outdoors, every single night of its working life. Most of the time it does. When it does not, the difference between a maintained display and an unmaintained one is who ends up on a ladder in December. With a Coastline Lights installation, in-season maintenance is included — this guide explains what that actually covers and why these problems happen in the first place.

Why displays fail mid-season

Three culprits account for nearly everything. Moisture at a connection — a plug joint sitting in dew-soaked grass or a puddle — trips the GFCI outlet that protects the circuit, and the whole run goes dark at once. A failed section of strand — one damaged socket or wire — takes out everything downstream of it, which is why a display can lose one clean segment while the rest keeps burning. And timer drift or a power interruption quietly shifts the on/off schedule, so the lights start coming on at dinner time and switching off before anyone gets home. None of these are signs of a bad install; they are what outdoor electrical equipment does across a season.

What the included maintenance covers

For every Coastline Lights installation, outages, weather issues and timer problems are handled through the season at no extra cost — it is one of the four stages of every installation, alongside design, install, and removal with storage. If a strand goes out, a timer needs resetting, or a storm knocks a section loose, that is ours to fix. You do not get billed separately to keep the display looking the way it did on the night it went up, and you do not climb anything.

What you can check from the ground

Nothing is required of you, but two ground-level checks are worth knowing about because they solve the two most common whole-display outages: a GFCI outlet's reset button (a tripped outlet looks exactly like a dead display), and the timer's current time after a power flicker. Anything beyond those two — anything involving a ladder, a roofline, or hunting for a fault along a strand — is precisely what the included maintenance is for. Our holiday light safety guide covers why roof work belongs with a crew.

What it costs to run each night

Separate from maintenance, homeowners often ask what a display adds to the power bill. That depends only on your bulb count and your utility rate, and the arithmetic is transparent — our energy cost calculator works it out from your own numbers.

Frequently asked questions

Does maintenance cost extra?

No. In-season maintenance is included in the installation price — outages, weather issues and timer problems are ours to handle for the rest of the season.

What should I do if a section of my display goes out?

Tell us — call, text or email, whichever you prefer. Diagnosing from the ground first is part of the service, so there is nothing you need to check or climb for.

Does maintenance cover damage from a storm?

Weather issues through the season are part of what maintenance is for. If wind or rain knocks something loose or takes a section out, that is exactly the kind of problem to hand to us.