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Display Repair & Refurbishment
A worn commercial display can do something a brand-new one can’t — come back at a fraction of the cost and keep the piece your community already knows. Holiday Designs™ has been restoring commercial holiday displays in our own facility since 1994, whatever brand they started as.
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Every January, the displays come down and go back into storage. By the time you look at them again, some have had a hard run — bulbs out, a frame bent in a wind event, garland gone flat. The reflex is to put new pieces in next year’s budget. The structure underneath usually tells a different story.
A commercial display is built around a powder-coated steel frame, and that frame is engineered to outlast everything mounted on it. When a display looks worn, the wear is almost always on the surface — the lighting, the finish, the greenery. Those are the parts we restore. The steel that’s still sound stays in service.
That’s the whole case for restoration. Re-lighting and refinishing a display runs a fraction of what a new one costs, and you keep the pieces your community already recognizes — the tree at the center of the square, the snowflakes down Main Street, the arch families walk through every year. Those carry value beyond the invoice.
Send us what you’ve got and we’ll be straight with you about what it needs and what it would cost.
We restore steel-based commercial displays — pole mounts, ground mounts, animated displays, snowflakes, arches and tunnels, skylines, wreath and garland-pole frames, and steel-frame trees. (Fiberglass and resin photo-op pieces are the one thing we don’t refurbish.) Most displays that come through our shop need some combination of the work below, and we assess every piece before we quote.
The most common reason a display looks tired, and the most straightforward to fix. We replace failed bulbs and brittle cords and convert older lighting to current LED systems that draw less power and run longer through a season.
For minor damage, we bend rods and arms back into place. For more involved cases, we cut out the damaged section, recreate it by hand in our weld shop, and weld it back onto the original frame. When a frame needs a full refinish, we strip the old bulbs, wire, and fasteners, sandblast off the old powder coating, acid-wash the steel, then apply new powder coating. The structure that was built to last is usually the part worth saving.
The steel frames behind your wreaths and garland pole displays get the same restoration as any other steel piece. Worn garland and greenery we simply replace with new, so the finished display reads full and fresh again.
Steel-frame panel, tower, and Ice Lite trees, pole-mount displays, snowflakes, arches and tunnels, skylines, and animated and ground-mount scenes restored to working, presentable condition for another run of seasons.
If you own commercial-grade displays from another supplier, send them to us. We work on what you have, whatever brand it started as. A good share of the pieces that come through our shop were built somewhere else — and they leave restored to the same standard we hold our own manufacturing to. Most of the time, the original maker is beside the point. What matters is whether the piece is worth bringing back, and we’ll tell you that honestly once we’ve looked at it.
Every display is different, so we look before we price. You send us the pieces or photos, we inspect them, and we give you an honest assessment — what it needs, what it’ll cost, and how long it’ll take. If a piece would cost more to restore than it’s worth, we’ll tell you that too and point you toward the better value. The honesty is the point. We’d rather you spend your budget where it goes furthest than say yes to work that doesn’t serve you.
Most customers ship displays to our facility in Gainesville, GA. For larger programs, we offer pickup and delivery in select locations. Tell us where you are and what you’ve got, and we’ll work out the logistics that fit your situation. POs accepted — we know how municipal and property-management procurement works.
Refurbishment runs year-round, and the smart window is January through summer — after everything comes down and well ahead of when it goes back up. Send your displays in the off-season and they’re back, restored, with time to spare before installation. The earlier the conversation starts, the more room everyone has to do it right. A display you send in February is a display you’re not thinking about in October.
Call us and someone answers. Email us and you hear back the same day. The same thing that makes us a dependable manufacturer makes us a good partner for keeping your existing displays in service for years longer. That sounds simple. Based on what we hear from buyers who’ve worked with other vendors, it matters more than it should.
Every refurbishment is priced on time and materials, because the work varies so much from one project to the next. Some pieces need a little care — new lights, fresh wire, and they’re back in service. Others are a full overhaul: strip the old bulbs and wire, sandblast off the old powder coating, acid-wash the steel, then new powder coating and new lighting. And some need weld-shop work before any of that can begin.
As a rough guideline, most refurbishment lands somewhere between 30% and 70% of the cost of buying new. That’s a ballpark to plan around, not a quote — the work varies too much from piece to piece for a firm number without seeing it.
Here’s the honest way to get you a real range: send us photos of your two or three worst displays. We’ll look at the condition they’re in and give you a rough worst-case range to budget against. From there, a full assessment gets you firm numbers you can take to your purchasing department.
Both answers come up, and we’ll tell you which one fits the pieces in front of you. Here’s the honest version of how we think it through with customers.
The frame is structurally sound. The display is a size or style that’s hard to source again. It’s a signature piece your community recognizes year after year. The wear is in the lighting, the finish, or the greenery rather than the structure itself. In those cases, restoration typically runs a fraction of replacement and buys you several more seasons out of a piece you already own.
Sometimes the math favors building new. If a frame is compromised past safe repair, or a piece was lightweight to begin with, or the restoration cost would land near the price of a new commercial display that lasts far longer — we’ll say so. And we can build you a piece that’s made to hold up, in the same facility, to the same municipal-grade standard. Either way, you walk away with a straight answer and a clear next step.
We manufacture commercial Christmas displays from scratch in the same facility where we refurbish them. We understand how these pieces are built, how they wear, and how to bring them back — because we’ve been building them since 1994. Restoring one runs through the same hands and the same standards as a new build.
Our team fabricates commercial displays every day. A restoration is the same skill set, applied to a piece you already own.
All work happens in our own facility. Your displays stay with the people who answer your calls, start to finish.
Municipal and property-management buyers can purchase refurbishment on a purchase order, same as any order with us. We document everything.
We refurbish steel-based commercial displays: pole mounts, ground mounts, animated displays, snowflakes, arches and tunnels, skylines, wreath and garland-pole frames, and steel-frame trees including panel, tower, and Ice Lite trees. Fiberglass and resin photo-op pieces are the one category we don’t refurbish. If you’re unsure whether a piece qualifies, send us a photo and we’ll tell you.
Yes. We refurbish steel-based commercial holiday displays from any maker. Send us your pieces and we’ll assess them and tell you honestly what restoration would involve. A good share of the work that comes through our shop started life somewhere else.
Refurbishment is priced on time and materials, because the work varies so much from piece to piece — some displays need new lights and wire, others need a full sandblast, acid wash, powder coat, and weld-shop work. As a rough guideline, most projects land between 30% and 70% of the cost of buying new. For a real range, send us photos of your two or three worst displays and we’ll give you a worst-case estimate to plan around.
Yes. Minor damage is often a matter of bending a rod or arm back into place. For more involved damage, we cut out the affected section, recreate it by hand in our weld shop, and weld it back onto the original frame. From there we can sandblast, re-powder-coat, and re-light the piece so it comes back as a complete display.
We quote turnaround per job after we’ve inspected the displays, since a re-lighting job and a full frame restoration run on different timelines. Sending displays in the off-season — January through summer — gives the work plenty of room before installation.
Both work. Most customers ship displays to our facility in Gainesville, GA. For larger programs, we offer pickup and delivery in select locations. Tell us where you are and what you have, and we’ll work out the logistics.
Yes. LED conversion is one of the most common parts of a refurbishment. Updating older lighting to current LED lowers power draw and extends the life of the display. We’ll include it in your assessment and quote.
Send us photos of what you’ve got and we’ll be straight with you — whether restoration is the right call, what it would take, and what it would cost, before you commit to anything. If building new is the smarter move, we’ll tell you that too.
Or call us at 1-800-516-4270. We answer.
