The roof edge is the strongest line on the building
From the street, what you actually see at night is an outline, and the roof draws it. It is the one line that runs the whole width of the house, and it sits against the sky, so it has contrast working for it. Light that line and the building reads as a shape rather than a dark mass.Which is why almost every permanent lighting system starts at that line instead of being spread across the walls. One continuous line, installed one time, carrying the whole outline: that is the argument.
What roofline lighting is made of
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. Because it matches the trim, you generally have to be told where it is.
Not every edge needs it
Every plan begins at the main roofline, and grows from there. After the main line come the peaks, the entry and the porch roof, each one judged on whether it helps. Outline everything and you end up with a shape and no depth, which is the usual mistake.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.
The noon test
The hardware does not come down, which makes daylight appearance part of what you are buying. That is why the channel gets matched to your trim rather than sold in one color. Mount it tight to the edge, match the color, and route the wire out of sight, and the daytime house is unchanged.
One line, a lot of uses
After install control is an app. Warm white on a normal night. Holiday colors for the season. A single color for Halloween. School colors on a Friday. 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 be very different jobs. Linear feet is the obvious factor, though it is rarely what separates two quotes. Every direction change adds time. Height is the third factor, because a second or third
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Where it fastens
The gutter is the first thing people point at. The channel fastens to the roof edge itself, 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 are the same, so the plan gets drawn after somebody looks at yours. EverCrest Lighting installs permanent roofline lighting for residential and commercial properties across 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.