Start at the top edge
From the street, a house is mostly a silhouette, and the roof draws it. Nothing else on the house gives you that much unbroken length, and nothing else is backed by open air. Light that line and the whole house resolves.That is the reason the roofline gets the hardware, and the reason a single run there does more than fixtures scattered around the yard. One continuous line, installed one time, carrying the whole outline: that is the case for it.
What roofline lighting actually consists of
The system is a slim aluminum track, color matched to the trim, with the
https://rentry.co/kxtgwuw4 LEDs running inside it. 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 goes
Every plan begins at the main roofline, and works outward. After the main line come the peaks, the entry and the porch roof, added only where it adds something. Lighting every edge on a house removes the depth you were trying to create.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 the thing that keeps the house looking like a house in July. Tight to the line, matched to trim, wire tucked: that is the whole standard.
What you do with it once it is up
Once the run is in, the rest is what you set it to. Plain white most nights, holiday color when the calendar calls for it, on a timer so nobody has to remember. The setting that gets the most hours is the warm white, which surprises people who bought it for the holidays.
What makes one roofline a bigger job than the house next door
Rooflines do not scale with house size. Linear feet is the first one, though it is rarely what separates two quotes. Complexity is what drives it: a simple gable runs fast, and a roof with six changes of direction, three dormers and a turret does not. Two stories is a different day than one.
Where it fastens
The gutter comes up in almost every consultation. The channel mounts to structure, not to a hanging piece of aluminum full of water half the year. That distinction matters since a gutter is not a permanent mounting point, and hardware attached to one goes wherever it goes.
Getting a plan for your own roofline
No two rooflines have the same shape, so the plan gets drawn after somebody looks at yours. EverCrest Lighting designs and installs roofline lighting for residential and commercial properties throughout Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, based in Greenville. The consultation is free. Reach them at (864) 252-1732 or
[email protected] to book the free consultation.