Every clip is a hole in the part of your house that keeps water out. That should worry you more than it does.
This is the page for the part of permanent lighting nobody selling it wants to talk about: the install is a roofing job wearing a lighting job's clothes.
The channel that holds the LED track is fastened into your soffit and fascia. Those are the components that ventilate your attic, carry your eavestrough, and stop water getting into the roof edge. A lighting company that has never worked on a roof is being paid to put dozens of fasteners into the single most water-sensitive assembly on your house.
None of these are hypothetical — they're what we get called to fix.
The channel fastens into solid fascia below the drip edge, sealed at every penetration, clear of the soffit's vented area so the attic's air intake is untouched. Where the fascia is aluminum over rotten wood — very common on 1970s and 80s Calgary houses — we tell you that before we mount anything to it, because fastening a permanent fixture to bad fascia is throwing good money after bad.
Sometimes the honest answer is that the fascia needs replacing before lighting goes on it. That's not an upsell — it's the difference between a lighting install that lasts fifteen years and one that pulls loose. We'd rather do the fascia first and the lighting second than mount a permanent system to a board that's failing.
If you're re-roofing anyway, this is the moment. New fascia, new drip edge, new eavestrough and the lighting channel all planned together means one set of decisions and one crew responsible for all of it. Retrofitting later is entirely doable — it's just more work than doing it while everything is already open.
It can, if someone else does it. Most roofing workmanship warranties — ours included — exclude damage arising from third-party penetrations of the roof assembly. That's not us being difficult; we can't warranty holes we didn't make. When we do the lighting, it's our fasteners and our responsibility, and the warranty stays intact.
Usually yes, as long as the wood behind it is sound. Aluminum fascia is a cover, not structure — the fasteners have to reach solid wood. If that wood is rotten, and on a lot of older Calgary houses it is, that gets dealt with first.
Not when it's planned. The channel goes below the drip edge and clear of the trough's back edge, so water still runs where it should. Interference is a symptom of an installer who didn't think about the gutter, and it's one of the most common problems we're called to correct.
The channel stays clear of the soffit's vented area. Blocking soffit vents chokes the attic's air intake, which cooks shingles in summer, produces frost on the sheathing in winter, and causes ice dams at the eave. It's a real risk and it's why we care where the channel sits.
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