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
Phase one: design
Christmas lighting installation in Germantown begins with a few choices. Aqua-Bright's design team works with each homeowner on a custom display. The first decisions are usually:
- Style. Whimsical and festive, or an elegant glow.
- Color. Aqua-Bright installs both white and colored LED holiday lights.
- Coverage. Which of the standard elements to include: lighting displays, roof displays, wreaths, and wrapped trees and bushes.
Settling these early keeps the display consistent. Mixing white and color can work well, but it works best as a plan, for example white on the roofline and color in the trees.
Phase two: installation
Installation day is where a professional crew earns its keep. Rooflines mean ladders, and ladders in cold, icy weather are the main hazard of holiday decorating. Aqua-Bright's crews put lights high on many houses each season and bring the equipment to do it quickly and safely.
The company describes its installations as quick, clean and worry-free. Its holiday lights are energy-efficient LEDs, which matters for a display that runs every evening for several weeks.
Phase three: after the holidays
When the season is over, Aqua-Bright comes back to remove the lights. Homeowners who want lights up year-round can choose maintenance service instead.
Ownership is worth understanding before you book. Once Aqua-Bright installs the lights, they are yours to keep. In following years, the cost is labor and maintenance rather than a new display.
That makes the first season's design decisions more important, because the display you choose this year is the starting point for next year too. It is worth taking the time to get the color, coverage and style right, knowing the same lights will come back out each December.
Residential and commercial installations
Aqua-Bright's residential holiday lighting service handles homes. For Germantown businesses, Aqua-Bright runs a separate commercial holiday lighting service for storefronts, shopping centers and commercial buildings, covering Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC. Both use the same building blocks: roof displays, wreaths, and wrapped trees and bushes.
A short planning checklist
- Choose a style: festive or elegant
- Choose white, colored, or a planned mix of LEDs
- Pick the elements: roof, wreaths, trees and bushes, other displays
- Decide whether the display comes down after the holidays or stays up with maintenance
- Book early in the fall, before crews' schedules fill
Aqua-Bright has an existing Germantown irrigation service and serves Montgomery County. Germantown is not on the holiday page's published service-area list, so call to confirm scheduling for your address.
Why hire out the installation at all
The holiday season is when most households are at their busiest, with dinners to plan, presents to buy and family to entertain. Outdoor lights are often the job that gets pushed back until it is too cold to do comfortably.
A professional installation removes both problems: the time and the ladder. It also tends to produce a better result, because a designer has looked at the house as a whole instead of working outward from wherever the first extension cord reaches. For many Germantown homeowners, that combination is worth more than the weekend saved.