Christmas Light Installation in Westbury, NY

Christmas light installation in Westbury, NY

Westbury runs two housing stocks at once. Close to the Post Avenue business district sit smaller Capes and older colonials built before the Meadowbrook State Parkway extended commuting this far out, and a short drive away are newer townhome developments and larger homes near the Northern State corridor. Both belong to the same town, and both need a different plan on the roof.

What Westbury rooflines are actually like

The older section near Post Avenue and Union Avenue is mostly small, simple roof lines, one-story Capes and low-slung ranches with short eaves that go up fast. The newer construction toward the Meadowbrook and Northern State corridors runs bigger: two-story colonials and townhome clusters with taller peaks and, in some developments, a shared roofline running across two or three units instead of one. A lot of the older block also has overhead utility wires close to the house, which changes where a line can run along the roof’s front edge. We look at both the roof and what’s hanging over the street before planning the layout.

• The blocks around Post Avenue and Union Avenue: older, smaller homes with straightforward single-story rooflines.
• Newer townhome clusters near the Meadowbrook State Parkway: shared rooflines that need coordination with a homeowners association.
• Properties along Schenck Avenue and Maple Avenue: a mix of home ages on the same block.
• Homes near the Northern State Parkway corridor: larger two-story colonials with taller peaks.

Getting to Westbury

Westbury is about 12 miles from our Amityville base. Most jobs here route up the Meadowbrook State Parkway to the Northern State Parkway, which puts us close to both the Post Avenue side of town and the newer development further out. We schedule Westbury alongside Garden City and Hicksville since the driving is short between all three.

Nearby towns we light

Westbury sits close to several towns we already work in every season:

• Garden City, a planned village of large Tudor and Colonial homes on wide, tree-lined streets
• Hicksville, a dense hub built around one of the busiest LIRR stations on the Island
• Levittown, the original post-war Cape and ranch community, block after block of the same roofline
• Syosset, an affluent hamlet of larger, wooded lots with a walkable village center on Jackson Avenue
• Glen Cove, a Gold Coast city on Long Island Sound

Westbury lighting questions

I live in a townhome community near the Meadowbrook Parkway. Do we need HOA approval first?

Most likely yes, and it’s worth checking before you book. Shared-roofline townhome communities usually have their own rules about what can go up on the exterior, even for something temporary, and some want the schedule or a certificate of insurance in advance. We can provide that certificate on request. Call 631-517-0186 and we’ll walk through what your specific community usually asks for.

Our house is an older Cape near Post Avenue, but my neighbor’s is a big newer colonial. Does the quote really change that much?

It can, because the two houses have almost nothing in common on the roof. A one-story Cape with a short, simple eave line takes a fraction of the time a two-story colonial with a taller peak and more roof sections does. We quote off the actual roofline we measure on-site, not a flat per-town number, so an older Post Avenue Cape and a newer home nearby can land in genuinely different ranges.

There are overhead utility wires close to our roofline. Is that a problem?

It’s common in the older part of Westbury and we plan around it. We keep lines and clips clear of the wires and adjust the route along that section of roof rather than running straight through. Tell us about it when you book so the crew shows up already knowing the layout instead of figuring it out from the ladder.

Westbury is in Nassau County. That page covers pricing, what the local housing stock means for a display, and every other town we light in the county.