Have you guys found Sam’s method to be genuinely faster? I have gotten very frustrated this past week trying to reassemble customer lights exactly as they were before. I had techs use pretty thorough zip tie systems for organizing what goes where…. Has not worked well any year that I’ve been in business.

I live in North Alabama. We get a lot of snow maybe 2 weeks a year? Nothing crazy. I know it would not be worth investing in plows and stuff, but I’ve seen a few guys locally operating the service. Do you think it would be worth incorporating for just 1-2weeks of extra work? I’m not sure what sorts of pricing you can charge per man hour or what the margins tend to be. I would love to be able to profit a little in the off season. With my current setup I am almost break even in January and February.

I’m looking to create an SOP on christmas light takedowns and checklist for my guys. What do you guys do?

My 3 house job got approved about $8k - 9k+ per house - this will be interesting

What are you guys charging? This is my third year, but the first year I’ve had a team and done decent numbers. I used to think people who charged $8+ a foot were foolish. Now I’m calculating $8/foot to put us at about 18% profit. Feel like we need to be charging $10. What do you guys charge?