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Permanent roofline lighting for Hill Country homes
A slim track under your eave with LEDs you run from your phone. Warm white most nights. Color when you want it. Installed once, with the maker's warranty in writing before you sign.
What it is
A fixture, not a string of lights
An aluminum track is fitted under the eave and color-matched to your trim. Inside it, LEDs sit at a fixed spacing. A power supply and a small controller drive them, and your phone is the switch.
Each light can be any color. So the same track gives you a soft warm-white porch glow on a Tuesday, red and green in December, and orange in October.
It is installed once. There is no November ladder and no January takedown.
How it goes on
Fastened to the trim, not the roof
The track mounts to the fascia or the soffit, the painted wood or metal trim that runs under the eave. It does not go on the roof panels, and it does not go on the stone.
- Standing-seam metal. The panels are never pierced. The track sits on the fascia below the drip edge.
- Stone and stucco. The wall is left alone. The track lives on the trim above it.
- Power. Low voltage, from an outdoor outlet. If the house needs a new outlet, that is electrician work and we say so first.
What it costs
Quoted per foot, after a measure
Permanent lighting is priced by the linear foot of eave, plus the power supplies and controller the run needs. We measure the house, then quote a real number in writing.
The makers of these systems publish their own per-foot ranges. For the front of a home, those published ranges start in the low thousands and climb with footage, gables and stories. Your quote will name the system, so you can check our number against the maker's own page.
What moves it: feet of eave, corners and gables, stories, where the power is, and how many sides of the house you want lit.
Warranty, said plainly
The maker's terms, in writing, before you sign
The parts carry the maker's warranty, not ours. Most makers cover the lights for years and the labor for a shorter term. Most leave out hail, impact and animal damage. Read that before you buy, not after.
We give you the maker's warranty page with the quote. We tell you which system we are quoting. And we do not call anything a lifetime warranty unless the maker's own page says what lifetime means.
Dark sky
Warm white inside city limits
Dripping Springs is a Dark Sky town. The city code caps how warm and how bright outdoor lights can be inside city limits. We set every system to warm white at or under 3,000K by default, and we tell you if your address needs a permit.
Color modes are a gray area in a code written for fixed lights. If you live inside the city line, ask us before you buy. We will tell you what we know and what we do not. That is not legal advice.
HOA
Belterra, Headwaters and Caliterra
A permanent track is a change to the outside of your home, and these communities ask for approval before you make one. File before you buy.
Boards mostly want to know what it looks like in daylight. A color-matched track under the eave is the answer, and we can give you the spec sheet to attach to your request.
Good to know
Questions people ask about permanent lighting
Can you see it in the daytime?
The track is color-matched to your trim and sits up under the eave. From the street you see a thin line, or nothing at all.
Which brand do you install?
Your quote names the system, its warranty and its app. We do not hide the maker's name behind our own.
What about hail?
Hail falls here, and most makers' warranties do not cover impact. Before you sign, we show you what the system we quote says about hail, in the maker's own words.
Do I need an electrician?
The lights are low voltage. The power supply plugs into an outdoor outlet. A new outlet or a new circuit is electrician work, and we will tell you up front if your house needs one.
Can I run it warm white and still do color for Christmas?
Yes. Set a schedule in the app. Warm white for the porch every night, red and green for December, team colors on game day, off when you like.
When is the best time to install?
Spring and summer. Dry days, an open calendar, and your eave is lit long before the first cold night. If your HOA needs to sign off, file early.
Does it replace seasonal lights?
For the roofline, yes. You pay once and there is no ladder again. Tree wraps, garland and wreaths are still seasonal work, and we still do them.