LUBBOCK, TX - (Marketwire) - According to the Home Safety Council, four out of five U.S. households plan to use ladders around their homes to prepare for the holiday season. Annually, during the two months surrounding the holiday season, more than 14,000 people are treated in hospital emergency rooms due to injuries related to holiday decorating.
Christmas Decor holiday and event decorators provide professional holiday and event decorating, eliminating unnecessary accidents for homeowners. Its designers are trained to execute lighting displays on high roofs, ladders, and in tricky situations. Christmas Decor installation crews are professionally trained and use the utmost care when decorating a client's home, without damaging moldings, roofing, or architectural elements.
"Homeowners are simply not following proper safety practices," said Brandon Stephens, vice president of marketing for Christmas Decor, Inc. "These unsafe practices can lead to major injury and even death, turning the holidays from a time of celebration into a time of tragedy."
The experts at Christmas Decor always recommend using a professional for holiday decorating because of injuries due to falling and electrocution, but provide the following tips to improve safe practices for residents who insist on doing it themselves;
"Hopefully homeowners will leave it to the pros," added Stephens. "If not, we recommend these tips to help keep area residents safe and healthy for the holiday season."
To find your local decorator, visit www.christmasdecor.net
Since its inception in 1986, Christmas Decor has risen to become the premier holiday lighting and decorating company in North America. The Texas-based company was founded by Blake Smith as an off-season supplement to his landscape business and as a method to provide year-round work for employees. Christmas Decor quickly emerged as a viable business opportunity and today, operates in more than 350 markets in 48 states and Canada. Plans are underway to open locations in more than 100 new markets through franchise expansion in select communities around the country. Christmas Decor is highly revered in its field and has received consistent recognition for its efforts; some highlights include having been named one of a Top Ten Home Improvement Franchises for 2008 by Entrepreneur Magazine and AOL Small Business. Christmas Decor's parent company, The Decor Group, also offers the Nite Time Decor franchise opportunity, a growing 30-unit concept specializing in architectural and landscape lighting services. For more information, visit www.christmasdecor.net.
Since its inception in 1986, Christmas Decor is a holiday lighting and decorating company.