Happy Sukkot: Our Holiday Hours and a Harvest-Season Floor Checklist

Sukkot Holiday Hours

Sukkot begins at sundown on Friday, September 25, 2026, and our team is closed for the first two days of the holiday, which end at nightfall on Sunday, September 27. Here is exactly when we are closed and when we are back:

• Friday, September 25: open our regular Friday hours, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
• Saturday, September 26: closed for the first day of Sukkot, which is also Shabbat.
• Sunday, September 27: closed for the second day of Sukkot. On a normal week we are open Sundays from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, so please note the change.
• Monday, September 28: back to our regular hours from 9:00 AM.

We will be answering the phone again from 9:00 AM on Monday at (313) 236-4558.

What Is Sukkot?

Sukkot is the Jewish harvest festival, also called the Feast of Tabernacles. It begins on the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, which this year is Saturday, September 26, 2026, in the year 5787. Families build a sukkah, a small temporary hut with a roof of branches or leaves, and eat their meals in it through the week of the holiday.

The holiday begins at sundown. Here in Metro Detroit, candle lighting is at 7:06 PM on Friday, September 25, and the first two days end at 8:03 PM on Sunday, September 27 (times from Hebcal for Oak Park, MI).

A few of the traditions of the holiday:

• The sukkah. A sukkah is put up in a backyard, on a patio or on a porch, with a roof of leaves or branches that is often loose enough to see the stars through.
• Meals outside. Families eat their holiday meals in the sukkah, and many invite friends and neighbors to join them.
• The harvest. Sukkot began as a festival of thanks for the fall harvest, so many families decorate the sukkah with gourds, dried corn and fruit.
• The greeting. Chag Sameach, which means a happy holiday, is the traditional wish for Sukkot.

Outside Israel, the first two days of Sukkot are full holiday days. This year they fall on Saturday and Sunday, so our team is away for the weekend, and we are back at work on Monday morning.

A Harvest-Season Floor Checklist

A week of meals outside means family and guests walking between the kitchen and the sukkah many times a day, and that back-and-forth is hard on the floors near the back door. None of this takes long:

• Lift chairs, do not drag them. Chairs often go out to the sukkah and come back in again. Carry them across the room, and keep felt pads on the legs, to help protect hardwood and LVP from scratches.
• Put a mat at the door to the yard. Guests step in and out all week, bringing wet leaves, grass and grit with them. A mat on each side of that door catches much of it before it gets tracked across the floor.
• Wipe up drips right away. Dishes carried back from the sukkah and wet shoes after a rainy evening leave drips by the door. Blot them with a soft, damp cloth and dry the spot, rather than letting liquid sit on the finish or run into the seams.
• Check the floor by the back door. The busiest doorway shows wear first. Look for boards that move, squeak, or have edges sitting higher than their center, which is called cupping, and for cracked grout on tile. Spotting them now gives you time to plan before winter.

If something on your list needs a closer look, it can wait until after the holiday. Start a request on our contact form, or call us when we reopen on Monday.

See You Monday

From all of us at BH Flooring Metro Detroit, Chag Sameach and a happy Sukkot to everyone celebrating, and a happy fall season to all of our neighbors across Metro Detroit. We will be back on Monday, September 28 at 9:00 AM, ready for your hardwood, LVP, tile and carpet projects.