Sukkot 2026: Our Holiday Hours and a Harvest Check for Your Season

Holiday hours for our team

Sukkot begins at sundown on Friday, September 25. Our team is out for Sukkot on Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27, and back Monday, September 28, 2026 at 9:30 AM Eastern Time.

Only our team is away. BH Dispatch itself does not close for the holiday, so your dispatch board, your jobs, and your customer records are there as usual while we are out.

Our regular office hours are Sunday to Thursday, 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM, and Friday, 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM, Eastern Time. We are closed on Saturdays.

What is Sukkot?

Sukkot is the Jewish harvest festival, also called the Feast of Tabernacles or the Festival of Booths. It begins five days after Yom Kippur and lasts seven days, at the time of year when the last of the crops came in from the fields.

The name comes from the sukkah, a small temporary hut built outdoors, with walls of wood or cloth and a roof of branches or leaves laid loosely enough to see the sky through. For the week of the holiday, families eat their meals out in the sukkah, and some sleep there too, as a reminder of the huts the Israelites lived in during their years in the desert.

Outside Israel the first two days are full holiday days, when work stops the way it does on Shabbat. This year the first day falls on Saturday, September 26, which is also Shabbat, and the second falls on Sunday, September 27. The days after that are the intermediate days of the festival, when many people go back to work, and so do we.

In Metro Detroit, candle lighting is at 7:06 PM on Friday, September 25, and the first days end with havdalah at 8:03 PM on Sunday, September 27. In White Plains, New York, candle lighting is at 6:29 PM and havdalah is at 7:24 PM. Those are Hebcal's times, and they vary by city.

The greeting you will hear all week is "Chag Sameach," a happy holiday.

A harvest check for your own season

A harvest festival is a good moment to count what came in. For many home-service shops the summer rush has eased by late September, and the numbers from it are still fresh. Before the winter work starts, four quick checks show how the season really went.

1. Count the calls you missed, not only the jobs you ran. The job list shows the work you won. The call log shows the work that rang out, and in a busy month that is often where the biggest leak sits, because a missed call costs more than it seems.
2. Look at which kinds of jobs paid and which ones dragged. Sort the season's jobs by type and compare the price against the hours and the return trips. The work that felt busiest is not always the work that paid best, and next season's pricing starts from this list.
3. Clean up the customer list while the names are fresh. Merge the duplicates, fix the phone numbers that no longer work, and add a note to the jobs that need a follow-up. A tidy list now is what lets a reminder next spring reach the right person.
4. Put the fall follow-ups on the board before the weather turns. Tune-ups, seasonal checks, and the jobs customers asked you to come back for later all go easier when they are booked now than when every one of those customers calls in the same cold week.

None of it takes long, and an hour of it on a quiet afternoon is worth more than a week of guessing in January. If you are closing for a holiday of your own, our Yom Kippur note has a short checklist for covering the phone while the shop is closed.

From our team to yours, Chag Sameach. We wish a happy Sukkot to everyone celebrating, and we will see you on Monday.