Aqueduct at a glance
- Serving Nashville and Middle Tennessee since 1988
- Licensed, bonded and insured, locally owned and operated
- Irrigation design, installation, activation, repair, winterization, backflow testing, coverage audits and pump service
- Landscape lighting design, installation, repair and Christmas light installation
- Service area covers Davidson, Williamson, Sumner and Cheatham counties
Historic architecture sets the design brief
Franklin's housing stock runs from genuinely historic properties near downtown to newer developments south and west of the city. Those two contexts want opposite things from a holiday display, which is the practical reason a Christmas light installation in Franklin starts with a design consultation on site rather than a package selected from a menu.
On a historic facade the rule is emphasis, not coverage. Warm-white C9 along a single roofline, wrapped porch columns, and a wreath sized correctly for the door will read better than a full-color display fighting the brickwork. On a newer build with a complex roof geometry, there is room for more.
What the design conversation covers:
- Roofline selection. Which lines to light and which to leave dark, so the outline reads clearly from the street.
- Trees and landscape features. Wrapping versus uplighting, and which specimens carry a display well.
- Color temperature. Warm white against brick and stone, cool white against modern painted siding.
- HOA and district requirements, confirmed before installation rather than after a complaint.
Downtown storefronts and commercial displays
Franklin's Main Street retail season is the most competitive stretch of the year, and holiday lighting is a working part of the storefront rather than decoration. Aqueduct installs for storefronts, HOA entry signs, clubhouses and shared neighborhood spaces alongside residential work.
For a commercial property, three factors dominate:
- Timing. The display has to be live before the shopping season starts, not during it, which means booking well ahead of Thanksgiving.
- Uptime. A dark storefront section during peak weeks is lost traffic. Mid-season maintenance is included at no extra charge, which for retail is the important line item.
- Clean removal. Displays come down after the season with no residual hardware left on the facade.
What the service includes, end to end
The service is all-inclusive by design, so a single quote covers the full season:
- Free design consultation. A visit to the property, a plan built around your roofline, trees and any HOA requirements, and a firm quote before scheduling.
- Professional installation. An insured crew handles rigging and wiring, uses clips rather than nails in soffits, and leaves the property clean.
- Commercial-grade LED, leased not sold. Brighter and more color-consistent than retail product, and never your problem to store.
- Mid-season maintenance. If a section fails, the crew returns and repairs it at no extra charge.
- Post-season takedown and storage. The display is removed carefully and the product goes back with the company.
Two published figures set expectations: holiday light services require a minimum $750 investment, and a $125 trip fee applies if no working weatherproof exterior GFCI outlet is available and no workaround was arranged in advance.
Requirements and limits, stated up front
Aqueduct does not install lights on steep or multi-story rooftops. Most one-story homes, storefronts and shared neighborhood spaces are a good fit, and this is confirmed during the quote so there are no surprises on installation day.
The other requirements are straightforward: a working, accessible, weatherproof exterior GFCI outlet; rooflines, gutters, trees and shrubs free of overgrowth and vines; and no display areas touching power lines. If you are unsure about the outlet, raise it during the quote, since a temporary power solution can sometimes be arranged in advance.
Homeowners in neighboring cities book the identical service through Christmas light installation in the Nashville area and Christmas light installation in Brentwood.
Booking the season in Williamson County
The calendar fills quickly for installs before and just after Thanksgiving, and Williamson County is one of the tighter markets in the metro. Booking early gets both better timing and a longer display season.
It is also worth handling your fall irrigation work in the same call. November is winterization season, and sprinkler winterization in Franklin competes for the same weeks. Aqueduct has served Middle Tennessee since 1988 and is licensed, bonded and insured, so both services come off one schedule.