Retail centres & shopping plazas
Consistent lighting across every storefront, installed before the trading season rather than during it.
Vancouver, WA & Clark County
Commercial Christmas Light Installation
Retail centres, HOAs, apartment complexes, dealerships and office parks. Installed by a registered Washington roofing contractor, on non-damaging clips, scheduled around your operation rather than through it — and taken down in January.
Commercial properties should be scoped in August or September — installs are larger, and the display has to be finished before your season, not during it.
Properties we light
HOAs & residential communities
Entrances, common areas, and clubhouses — plus a single point of contact for the board instead of a different contractor each year.
Apartment & condo complexes
Multi-building displays scheduled so residents are not working around ladders on a Tuesday morning.
Car dealerships
High-visibility frontage where the display is doing marketing work, not just decoration.
Office parks & business campuses
Entrances and shared exterior space, installed outside business hours.
Restaurants & hotels
Facades and entries, with a service response that does not leave a dark patch through your busiest month.
Why a roofing contractor
Most holiday lighting crews are seasonal. They assemble in October, work for ten weeks, and disband. That is fine until somebody puts a fastener through a membrane roof.
Height is our normal work
Working safely on steep and multi-storey roofs is what this business does the other ten months of the year. It is not a seasonal stretch we take on.
Nothing penetrates your roof
Non-damaging clips only. Commercial roofing systems and their warranties are far less forgiving of unauthorised penetrations than a residential shingle roof, and we are not going to compromise one to hang a light.
Registered and verifiable
Washington contractor registration BTNHOHL796B9 — public record, checkable through L&I, and requiring liability insurance and a bond to hold. A certificate of insurance naming your property is available before work starts.
We are here in February
A local roofing company with a year-round address and phone number, not a crew that dissolves in January. If something needs sorting after the season, there is somebody to call.
How a commercial install runs
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Site walk
We walk the property with you, measure the runs, and identify power and access. Commercial scope is too variable to quote off photographs the way a house can be.
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Written scope and quote
A documented scope — what gets lit, what it costs, when it goes up, when it comes down. Something you can take to a board or put through procurement.
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Scheduled around your operation
Installed outside trading hours, before the season rather than into it. Tenants and customers should never see the ladders.
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In-season service
If something fails in December, it gets fixed. A dark section of a retail frontage is your problem for the whole month otherwise.
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Removal and storage
Taken down in January and, if you want, stored year-round so next season is a phone call instead of a procurement exercise.
Commercial questions
Are you licensed and insured for commercial work?
Yes. Everstead Roofing Co is a registered Washington contractor, registration BTNHOHL796B9, which is public record and verifiable through Washington State L&I. Registration requires both liability insurance and a bond. We can provide a certificate of insurance naming your property for your files before work starts — most property managers need it, and it is a reasonable thing to ask any contractor for.
When should a commercial property book?
Earlier than residential, and for a different reason. Commercial installs are larger, take more days, and have to be finished before your trading season rather than during it. Budgets are also usually set in late summer or early autumn. August through September is the right window to get a scope and a number in front of whoever signs it.
Can you work around our business hours?
That is the normal arrangement for commercial sites. Retail frontages, restaurants, and dealerships get installed outside trading hours; apartment and office properties get scheduled so residents and staff are not navigating around equipment. Tell us the constraint at the site walk and it goes into the written scope rather than being negotiated on the day.
Will the installation damage the building?
No. Everything goes up on non-damaging clips — no holes, no nails, no staples into roofing, flashing, or cladding. This matters more on a commercial roof than a house, because commercial roofing systems and their warranties are considerably less forgiving of unauthorised penetrations. We are roofers; we are not going to compromise a roof to hang a light.
How is commercial pricing worked out?
Per property, after a site walk. Commercial scope varies far too much — frontage length, height, access equipment, power availability, how many buildings, whether work has to happen outside hours — for a per-foot figure to mean anything. You get a written scope and a fixed number before anything is committed. Washington sales tax is stated separately, as it is on all our work.
Can we set this up for multiple seasons?
It is worth discussing at the site walk. Returning to a property we already have measurements, a design, and stored inventory for is genuinely more efficient than starting fresh, and repeat arrangements can be structured to reflect that. Come to the conversation with how many seasons you want covered.
Get a commercial scope and number
Site walk, written scope, fixed quote. Retail, HOA, multifamily, hospitality and office properties throughout Vancouver, WA and Clark County.
Book the site walk now — commercial installs need to be finished before your season, not during it.