Put them up once. Then never think about a ladder in December again.
Every December in Calgary, people get on icy ladders to hang lights they will take down again in January, having stored them tangled since last year. An icy ladder in the dark is a bad place to be.
Permanent roofline lighting is a track of individually addressable LEDs mounted in a channel under your roofline. It goes up once. The track system is designed to be hard to see by day. At night it's whatever you tell it to be from your phone: your colours for whatever you're celebrating, your team's colours when they're playing, or a soft everyday white the rest of the year.
This is the part most people don't think about until it's a problem. The track mounts into your soffit and fascia, the assembly that keeps water out of your roof edge and carries the weight of your eavestrough. Every clip is a penetration in it.
December is only part of why this beats seasonal lighting. The same track does every holiday and celebration, Flames game nights, a birthday, and plain warm white for the eleven months when you just want the house to look finished after dark. You change scenes from an app. Nobody goes outside.
It's roofline lighting. It won't light your trees, your walkway or your garden beds. Those are landscape lighting, which is a different system. It won't replace a porch light. And it is a permanent installation: it stays on the house, which is the point, but keep it in mind if you're planning to move soon. It does generally add to what a buyer sees, but treat it as something you install for yourself.
We measure the roofline, plan the runs and the controller location, mount the channel, seat the track, and commission the app. Then we walk you through it so you're not left with a manual. The electrical side is handled to Alberta code. See the note below on how that works.
Permanent roofline lighting is a channel, a run of addressable LEDs, a power supply and a controller. Here's what each part does, and what actually wears out.
Permanent lights fasten into the edge of your roof assembly. Here's what they should go into, what they should never go through, and what to ask any installer.
The track system is designed to be hard to see by day. It sits in a low-profile channel tucked under the roofline, and from the street in daylight it reads as a shadow line rather than as hardware. If you're standing under the eave looking up, you'll see it. The plug-in smart LED system isn't hidden the same way, so ask which one suits your house.
LEDs at this scale draw very little. Running the roofline nightly is not a meaningful line on a Calgary power bill. The controller draws a trickle when idle. Nobody has ever called us about the electricity.
The LEDs and track are rated for outdoor winter use, which in Alberta is the entire point of buying them. Installation is what's weather-dependent, not operation. That's why booking in September or October matters and booking in mid-November means waiting.
Not from us. You own the hardware and the app controls it. Be careful here when comparing: some systems in this category do tie features to an ongoing fee, so ask any bidder directly whether anything you're being shown requires a subscription to keep working.
Individual LEDs are addressable, so a failure is usually a segment rather than the whole run, and it's replaced in place. Warranty terms are on the written quote. The hardware carries a manufacturer warranty and our workmanship is separate from it, the same way it is on a roof.
Priced per linear foot of roofline. Add your address and tell us how much of the house you want lit.
