The roof edge is the strongest line on the building
From the street, a house is mostly a silhouette, and the roof edge draws that outline. Nothing else on the house runs that far uninterrupted, and nothing else is backed by open air. Light that line and the building reads as a shape rather than a dark mass.That is the reason permanent systems live at the roof edge, and the reason a single run there does more than fixtures scattered around the yard. It is the highest impact run on the building, measured by what it changes for what it takes.
What is up there
Roofline lighting is a color matched aluminum channel holding individual LEDs, fastened along the roof edge and left there. The channel does two jobs at once: it holds the lights and it hides them. Matched to the trim, it reads as
https://evercrestlighting.com/contact/ part of the house at noon.
Where the run stops
The main roofline comes first, and then the design picks up whatever else earns it. After the main line come the gables, the dormers and the porch, added only where it adds something. Lighting every edge on a house removes the depth you were trying to create.The run itself repays a close look once a crew is done, since holding a true line across a long elevation is not simple.
Daylight is the other half of the design
A roofline system is on the house every day, lit or unlit. Matching the channel to the trim or fascia is not a small detail, it is what keeps the front of the home from looking decorated in summer. Mount it tight to the edge, match the color, and route the wire out of sight, and nothing about the daylight view changes.
What you do with it once it is up
After install control is an app. Warm white on a normal night. Holiday colors for the season. Orange in October. Team colors before a game. The setting that gets the most hours is almost always the plain one, which is not what most buyers expect going in.
Why quotes vary
Two houses on the same street can be very different jobs. Linear feet is the obvious factor, though it is rarely what separates two quotes. Every corner is another cut, another fitting and another decision. Height is the other one, because a second or third story changes the equipment and the time.
Does it attach to the gutter?
Homeowners expect it to hang off the gutter, because that is how seasonal strands work. The channel mounts to structure, not to a hanging piece of aluminum full of water half the year. Fastening to solid structure is what keeps the line straight for years.
The next step
No two rooflines have the same shape, so the design comes from a look at the actual house. EverCrest Lighting installs permanent roofline lighting for homes and businesses throughout Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, working out of Greenville. Consultations are free. Call (864) 252-1732 or email
[email protected] to have somebody look at your roofline.