Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Now that September is upon us and the weather appears to be showing early signs of fall, Christmas Decor, serving Montgomery County and parts of Howard County is in the beginning stages of planning for this years Christmas Lighting displays. We typically begin estimating Christmas light projects towards the middle and end of September and begin our first installations as early as mid October.
So it is never to early to plan ahead for Christmas lighting on your home. Most of our clients love the service so much they keep coming back year after year.
We can work with just about any budget. The minimum cost you should expect to pay is $500. Most clients end up doing some pretty fancy displays, so our average customer for Christmas Decor by Hallco spends $2500. Don't let that scare you away. Just do what you can afford! We are here to help.
Serving Frederick, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Potomac, the D.C. Metro and all of Howard County Maryland, Hallco Enterprises is your trusted residential and commercial painting contractor for planning painting related home improvement, interior painting, exterior painting, color selection, painting ideas, and power washing.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
We are getting to the end of summer and Christmas Decor by Hallco is gearing up for another fun year of hanging and servicing Christmas Lights and decorations all over western and central Maryland! We cannot wait for the season to start, as it really is a great time of year!
If you have used Christmas Decor in the past, remember to sign up early to get the best savings from your previous displays. We also have early bird specials for new Christmas Lighting customers too!
Christmas Decor by Hallco provides Christmas Decorating and Light Hanging services to the Following cities and counties: Gaithersburg, MD, select areas of Frederick County, Germantown, Clarksburg, North Potomac, Rockville MD, Fulton, Glenwood, Glenelg, Brookeville, Damascus, Darnestown, Poolesville, Boyds, Olney, Silver Spring, Laytonsville, parts of Mt. Airy, Carrol County, Columbia, Clarksville, Highland and many other select areas of Howard County.
If you do not live in this areas, please feel free to give us a call. If there is not another Christmas Decor company in your area, we'll see how we can help you get your lighting display in time for Christmas!
Serving Frederick, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Potomac, the D.C. Metro and all of Howard County Maryland, Hallco Enterprises is your trusted residential and commercial painting contractor for planning painting related home improvement, interior painting, exterior painting, color selection, painting ideas, and power washing.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Hallco Enterprises is still painting homes in July but is also traveling the country! David Chism, our estimator, just returned from a 4 day trip to Portland, OR for the 10th annual Advanced Shop Talk (AST) of the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America's Residential Forum. This years event featured a "shop hop" where 50+ professional painters were able to tour a member's painting office and shop. They also spend some time touring the Purdy Paint brush factory and a local paint manufacturer. They got to see first hand how paint is made! The actual conference was Friday and Saturday and discussed many different avenues of how to run a successful house painting business from websites and marketing to hiring the right people and training techniques. The conference took place in downtown Portland and The NINES hotel. David Chism is a current board member of the Residential forum and took an active role this year in being a presenter. David had two prepared presentations on website design and estimating techniques. He also assisted a group discussion on using the latest in technology in your paint company.
As David was wrapping up his time in Portland, our owner, Ted Hall, was flying to the west coast too. Ted and Karin Hall will be attending the national Christmas Decor conference in Reno, NV this week. This is the annual event to help all the Christmas Decor companies around the U.S. gear up for this years displays, learn about any new products and receive any additional training.
Christmas is just around the corner, and Hallco will be ready to service Maryland, Northern Virginia and D.C. with installing the best Christmas lighting display you will ever see. If you don't need a lighting display but need painting, we keep our painting running year round, so give us a call either way.
Serving Frederick, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Potomac, the D.C. Metro and all of Howard County Maryland, Hallco Enterprises is your trusted residential and commercial painting contractor for planning painting related home improvement, interior painting, exterior painting, color selection, painting ideas, and power washing.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
All of us at Christmas Decor by Hallco and Hallco Enterprises want to wish all of our visitors and customers a very Merry Christmas. We hope you enjoy this year's Christmas lighting display and are happy with our service to you. Enjoy the day off from the busy lifestyle we all have and take time to reflect on the many blessings we all have in this life. Thank you for visiting and for selecting Christmas Decor for your holiday decorating needs! We appreciate your business.
888-95-DECOR
Serving Frederick, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Potomac, the D.C. Metro and all of Howard County Maryland, Hallco Enterprises is your trusted residential and commercial painting contractor for planning painting related home improvement, interior painting, exterior painting, color selection, painting ideas, and power washing.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
We can't remember the last time we had so much rain in December. Rain and water is a good thing, most of the time. However, Christmas Lights do not like them, or better yet, Electricity does not like them. We have had quite a bit of service calls for lights going out during the raining nights and wanted to bring to your attention why this is happening.
Most newer homes have a GFI box, which is the small outlet with the reset and test buttons on them. These boxes are installed on the exterior of homes by law. A GFI protects against fires and other electrical problems by shutting off if moisture gets near the electrical outlet. If too much rain gets the box wet, the Christmas lights will go out. Sometimes a homeowner will get lucky and the GFI boxes will not shut off.
We wish there was an easy or inexpensive solution to this problem, but there is not. The best way to prevent lights from going out is to have a dedicated circuit installed on your home that is just for Christmas lights. This can typically be done for around $250 in most cases. The new circuit can hopefully be installed where it is protected from rain and help avoid the GFI boxes "tripping."
If your lights go out during the Christmas season and we have installed the lights, please email or call us. We typically will come the next business day to fix the lights. To save time, you can also push the reset button on your electrical outlet and that should do the trick!
888-95-DECOR
Serving Frederick, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Potomac, the D.C. Metro and all of Howard County Maryland, Hallco Enterprises is your trusted residential and commercial painting contractor for planning painting related home improvement, interior painting, exterior painting, color selection, painting ideas, and power washing.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Having a professional Christmas lighting service company hang your lights might be something new for many of you. Maybe you just love untangling last years lights or installing all of the lights only to find out that the middle strand does not work. If you are tired of checking to see if lights still work or trying to locate where the end of the light strand is amongst the tangled web of lights, you may be interested in Christmas Decor by Hallco.
Christmas Decor of Maryland provides and services the lights for your home, and you don't have to do a thing. You don't need to own the lights! Why would you want to anyways? Do you really want to stand in line at Walmart to purchase 2 strands of new lights? The lights we provide are leased to you during the Christmas season. We take care of burned out bulbs and make sure your lights don't get tangled up when we take them down and store them at our secure facility for next season. Each season, we take your lights out of their box, change light bulbs, replace damaged strands and make sure your lighting display is in top-knotch working order!
I just recently signed up a new FLH (frustrated light hanger) in Ellicott City this week after he shared with me a very funny story. Mr. Robinson is responsible for doing a lighting display at his home each year. How did he start? He went to Target, purchased a few netting lights and other strands and threw them on his shrubs and trees as quickly as possible. The one thing he hates the most? Taking those lights down and storing them. So, after Christmas, he yanks the lights off his bushes, rolls them up in a ball, stuffs them in a storage box and throws them in storage for the next Christmas season. The next season, he pulls the tangled web of lights out of storage and says, "No way am I untangling those lights!" He tosses the lights and starts all over each season! Mr. Robinson, like so many others, said this year, "No more! I'm hiring professionals to hang their own lights! I'm done!"
888-95-DECOR
Serving Frederick, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Potomac, the D.C. Metro and all of Howard County Maryland, Hallco Enterprises is your trusted residential and commercial painting contractor for planning painting related home improvement, interior painting, exterior painting, color selection, painting ideas, and power washing.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
We just finished our third season lighting the Woodmoor Community Christmas Tree in Silver Spring Maryland.
The tree stands 82′ Tall and has over 3,200 LED C-9 (large) bulbs installed.
Serving Frederick, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Potomac, the D.C. Metro and all of Howard County Maryland, Hallco Enterprises is your trusted residential and commercial painting contractor for planning painting related home improvement, interior painting, exterior painting, color selection, painting ideas, and power washing.
Friday, October 17, 2008
I recently was talking to a property manager about doing some Christmas displays on one of her properties in Howard County and was delighted to hear the following complaint! Lisa total me that she had received several complaints from her tenants from other properties because their store fronts were not decorated for the holidays! This property manager new the benefit of lighting and decorating for Christmas and was ready to make sure she did not get a complain again!
There are many benefits for a business to decorate for Christmas. Probably the two biggest reasons every commercial property should decorate for the holidays is 1) Your employees and tenants will be happy! 2) It will increase awareness to the public therefore increasing sales.
We have never had one of our commercial customers not sign up the following year as they have all sean the benefit fo commercial lighting during the holiday season. We have even been hearing reports that sales have increased by a minimum of 15%.
So, if you own or manage a commercial property, we'd love to meet with you. If you are in Maryland or the Washington Metro area and need a list of existing properties we have decorated, we'd love to send you references.
888-95-DECOR
Serving Frederick, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Potomac, the D.C. Metro and all of Howard County Maryland, Hallco Enterprises is your trusted residential and commercial painting contractor for planning painting related home improvement, interior painting, exterior painting, color selection, painting ideas, and power washing.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
One of the questions we get asked a lot when doing Christmas Lighting & Decorating estimates is: "Does it cost a lot to hang my lights?" This is a very reasonable question that has a very simple answer!
Christmas Decor by Hallco prices everything a la carte. Sometimes our designers will lump a few items together such as Holly shrubs or two small spruce trees if they must be lit together to be symmetrical. Our designers typically will spend some time studying your property and then share their ideas with you about what they think will look good. If your budget is small and you only wish to have your fascia lit and a wreath around your front door, we can do it. We are a service company, which is why we have decided to price things a la carte. You get to be the final judge on what you wish to spend and they way you want your home to look. Either way, we are here to service your lighting and decorating needs.
We hope to meet with you soon to discuss your Christmas Decor needs.
1 888 95 DECOR / ChristmasDecorMaryland.com
Serving Frederick, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Potomac, the D.C. Metro and all of Howard County Maryland, Hallco Enterprises is your trusted residential and commercial painting contractor for planning painting related home improvement, interior painting, exterior painting, color selection, painting ideas, and power washing.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Hallco Enterprises and Christmas Decor by Hallco LLC started this blog to inform our customers and you of our painting and Christmas Lighting services! We will be posting valuable information in the upcoming weeks, months and even years about our services, events in our community and tips you will find useful!
Hallco is starting our 4th season installing Christmas lights the right way for our clients. All of our staff has been professionally trained to hang Christmas and Holiday decorations on your home and place of work. We would invite you to check out our Christmas Decor website at http://www.ChristmasDecorMaryland.com.
Christmas Decor by Hallco does everything from the design, the install to the storing of your lights during the rest of the year! We are a full-service company that our customers can trust.
Please email or call us if you would like one of our design consultants to give you a design consultation for this years Christmas season. Call 1 888-95-DECOR or Email us!
Serving Frederick, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Potomac, the D.C. Metro and all of Howard County Maryland, Hallco Enterprises is your trusted residential and commercial painting contractor for planning painting related home improvement, interior painting, exterior painting, color selection, painting ideas, and power washing.
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