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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 gives you that much unbroken length, and nothing else has the sky behind it. 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. One continuous line, mounted once, doing the most visible job on the property: that is the case for it.

What roofline lighting actually consists of

Roofline lighting is a color matched aluminum channel with LEDs set into it, mounted along the edge and left in place year round. The channel does two jobs at once: it aims the light and it conceals the hardware. Because it matches the trim, it disappears into the roof edge in daylight.

Which lines get lit

The main roofline is the anchor, and then the design picks up whatever else earns it. Gables, peaks, porch edges, columns and upper runs are all candidates, but not all of them get used. Lighting every edge on a house removes the depth you were trying to create.Look along a completed run at eye level down the elevation, since a straight line over that span does not happen by accident.

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 nothing about the daylight view changes.

How it gets used

After install the system runs from your phone. Warm white on an ordinary Tuesday. Red and green in December. Orange in October. Team colors before a game. Most owners land on one white and leave it, and permanent lighting installation save the color for occasions.

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. Complexity does more: a simple gable runs fast, and a roof with six changes of direction, three dormers and a turret does not. Two stories changes the job.

Does it go on the gutter?

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. Fastening to solid structure is why the run stays true.

How to find out what your house needs

Because houses are not interchangeable, the design has to be drawn for your building. EverCrest Lighting installs permanent roofline lighting for residential and commercial properties throughout Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, based in Greenville. The consultation is free. Call (864) 252-1732 or email [email protected] to have somebody look at your roofline.

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