Start at the top edge
From the street, what you actually see at night is an outline, and the roof edge draws that outline. Nothing else on the house gives you that much unbroken length, and nothing else is backed by open air. Put light on it and the outline comes back, which is most of what people mean when they say a house looks good lit.Which is why the roof edge is where permanent lighting goes instead of being spread across the walls. It is the highest impact run on the building, for what it costs to install.
What is up there
Roofline lighting is an aluminum channel matched to your trim holding individual LEDs, fastened along the roof edge and left there. That channel is doing two things, carrying the LEDs and keeping the daytime look clean. Matched to the trim, it reads as part of the house at noon.
Where the run stops
Every plan starts with the primary roof edge, and grows from there. Gables, peaks, porch edges, posts and second story lines are all candidates, but not all of them get used. Lighting every edge on a house flattens it.The run itself is worth looking at closely on a finished job, because a straight line held over a long span is harder than it looks.
Daylight is half the job
The hardware stays up, so the daytime look is part of the product. Matching the channel to your trim color is not a cosmetic afterthought, it is what keeps the front of the home from looking decorated in summer. Tight to the line, matched to trim, wiring concealed: that is a clean install.
How it gets used
Once the run is in, it is a phone app and a color. Warm white on a normal night. Holiday colors for the
https://evercrestlighting.com/ season. Orange in October. Team colors before a game. The setting that gets the most hours is almost always the plain one, which surprises people who bought it for the holidays.
What drives the size of the job
Two houses on the same street can quote well apart. Linear feet is the first one, but it is not the main one. Every corner is another cut, another fitting and another decision. Two stories is a different day than one.
Does it attach to the gutter?
The gutter comes up in almost every consultation. The channel mounts to structure, rather than to gutter that flexes and fills. Fastening to solid structure is why the run stays true.
The next step
Because every roof edge is different, the design has to be drawn for your building. EverCrest Lighting installs permanent roofline lighting for homes and businesses across Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, working out of Greenville. The consultation is free. Call (864) 252-1732 or email
[email protected] to have somebody look at your roofline.