Old-House Trim Inspected Board by Board
We look at every piece of wood the track will touch and tell you plainly what is sound and what is not.
Permanent Holiday Lighting · Haddonfield, NJ
Colonials, Victorians and porch-front homes that have stood for generations. We tuck a slim light track along the trim so the architecture still leads.
Permanent holiday lighting in Haddonfield has one job beyond looking festive: it cannot fight the house. Apex Gutters, LLC mounts a slim LED channel tight under the eave, along trim that has often been there for a century, so in daylight you barely notice it. After dark it outlines the house you already love.
Our shop is in Somers Point, a bit over an hour from Kings Highway, and we come up because older homes are where careful roofline work matters most. Most of our days go to hanging half-round gutters and K-style runs, and to repairing original fascia and soffit that has seen a lot of winters.
The historic district
A big part of Haddonfield sits in a locally designated historic district, and the borough's Historic Preservation Commission reviews many visible exterior changes there. If your house is in the district, check with the borough on whether your lighting plan needs a look before we schedule. We will mark out exactly where the track runs so you have specifics to bring.
Permanent roofline lighting on an old house means mounting to the fascia, never to crown molding, brackets or carved trim. We pick the plainest board on each side and leave the details alone.
Century-old boards can be sound on the street side and soft in back. Anything that will not hold a screw gets repaired before the track goes on.
Kings Highway and the side streets
Walk past the shops on Kings Highway and then down the side streets, and you see plenty of half-round gutters on exterior hangers. They suit these houses. They also mean the light track has to route around each hanger, which we plan at the estimate, standing on your sidewalk.
If the old gutters are past saving, new seamless half-round gutters keep the period look and give your permanent house lights a straight, sound edge to follow.
Haddy and the holidays
This is the town where the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton in North America turned up, and Haddy, the bronze hadrosaurus, still keeps watch downtown. People here care about history and about how a street looks. That is why year-round holiday lights in Haddonfield tend to stay understated: warm white most nights, color when the calendar earns it.
December is the obvious one. Permanent Christmas lights in red and green or a classic warm white, switched on from your phone and set on a timer. Orange in October, red, white and blue in July. Permanent holiday lighting Haddonfield homes carry should look as at home in March as it does on Christmas Eve.
Shade trees and gutters
Haddonfield's big old oaks and maples are part of the charm, and they fill gutters every fall. The light track never sits inside the trough. Permanent LED lighting mounts to the fascia below the drip edge, so the gutter stays open for water and for whoever cleans it.
Your gutter cleaning visits reach the trough without touching the lights.
If heavy leaf drop has you thinking about gutter guard options, the track leaves room for them.
Estimate and install
Permanent holiday lighting in Haddonfield starts with a free visit. We measure every run, check the wood, look at the gutters, and plan the power. You get a price and time to think, with no pressure either way.
On the day of the holiday lighting installation, the crew mounts the track, seats the lights, tests each zone, and shows you the app before leaving. If the gutters need replacing first, we can quote K-style seamless gutters where they suit the house. Plenty of people find us by searching permanent holiday lighting near me, and the person who answers is part of the family that runs the company.
Apex Gutters has been family-owned since March 2007, working South Jersey rooflines out of Somers Point. We answer every call or return it within the hour, and we treat old trim like it cannot be replaced, because sometimes it cannot.
Ask any installer for their New Jersey home improvement contractor registration and proof of insurance, and expect us to have both in hand at your estimate.
We look at every piece of wood the track will touch and tell you plainly what is sound and what is not.
We come out, measure, and price permanent outdoor lighting for your house, then let you decide on your own time.
A low-profile track tucked under the eave, so the house still looks like itself in daylight.
We also install in the towns ringing Haddonfield. Looking for permanent Christmas lights near me in Haddon Township, Barrington or Cherry Hill? Call us. A couple of PATCO stops west, our Collingswood holiday lighting page covers the Haddon Avenue side, and newer homes to the east are on our Voorhees Township lighting page.
Apex Gutters, LLC · 450 7th St, Unit 2, Somers Point, New Jersey 08244
Answers to what owners of older homes ask before booking. Anything else, call and ask.
+1 609-710-9713It depends on roofline length, the number of peaks and corners, the height of the house, the power source, and any trim repair needed first. You get an exact price at the free estimate.
It may. The borough's Historic Preservation Commission reviews many visible exterior changes in the district. Check with the borough first, and we will give you exact details on where the track would go.
We mount to the fascia, not decorative molding, and check the wood first. Soft boards get repaired before anything goes on.
Yes. We plan the track around each hanger at the estimate so the gutter and the lights both work as they should.
Barely. It is low-profile and sits tight under the eave, so from the sidewalk it reads as part of the trim.
Yes. Many older homes keep a warm white scene for regular nights and save color for the holidays.
Yes. It is a bit over an hour from our office, and the estimate is free.
Yes. Gutters are our main work. Replacing them first gives the light track a straight edge and means you are not mounting new lights next to a leak.
Call or use the form. We will walk the house, check the old trim, and price permanent holiday lighting in Haddonfield that suits it.
+1 609-710-9713Monday to Saturday, 8 AM to 4 PM. Closed Sunday.