The roof edge is the strongest line on the building
Look at any house after dark and the outline you pick out first is the roof edge. 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 whole house resolves.That is the reason the roofline gets the hardware, and why one line up there outperforms a dozen fixtures at ground level. It is the most efficient piece of exterior lighting a house can have, for what it costs to install.
What roofline lighting is made of
Roofline lighting is a color matched aluminum channel with LEDs set into it, fastened along the roof edge and left there. The channel does two jobs at once: it holds the lights and it hides them. Because it matches the trim, you generally have to be told where it is.
Where the run stops
The main roofline is the anchor, and then the design picks up whatever else earns it. After the main line come the peaks, the entry and the porch roof, each one judged on whether it helps. Outline everything and the house reads flat, which is the most common way a roofline plan goes wrong.The run itself repays a close look once a crew is done, since holding a true line across a long elevation is not simple.
What it looks like with the lights off
The hardware stays up, which makes daylight appearance part of what you are buying. 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 the whole standard.
One line, a lot of uses
After install control is an app. Plain white most nights, holiday color when the calendar calls for it, and a schedule that runs it without you. Most owners land on one white and leave it, using color for the handful of days that call for it.
What makes one roofline cost more than another
Two houses on the same street can quote well apart. Length matters less than complexity. Complexity is what drives
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Does it go on the gutter?
Homeowners expect it to hang off the gutter, because that is how seasonal strands work. The channel fastens to the roof edge itself, rather than to gutter that flexes and fills. That distinction matters because gutters move, sag and get replaced, and anything fastened to one inherits its problems.
Getting a plan for your own roofline
Because houses are not interchangeable, the design has to be drawn for your building. EverCrest Lighting designs and installs roofline lighting for residential and commercial properties across Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, based in Greenville. The consultation is free. Call (864) 252-1732 or email
[email protected] and ask what your roof edge would take.