Questions people ask before they call

Installed pricing runs about $20 to $40 per linear foot of roofline in Utah, so most homes land between $3,000 and $8,000. Height, roof complexity and how much of the house you light drive where you fall in that band. There's an estimator on our pricing page, and the on-site quote is firm and in writing.

Barely. The channel is powder-coated to match your fascia and tucked up under the eave. From the street it reads as trim. Most people don't notice a neighbor has them until the first night they come on.

Almost always. Because the track is color-matched and the system can run subtle warm white, it satisfies the exterior-lighting language in every HOA we've worked with. We supply daytime photos and a spec sheet for your architectural committee, and you typically only have to get approval once. Full detail on our HOA approval page.

The LEDs are rated for 50,000 hours — roughly 20 years at typical nightly use. LEDs carry a lifetime warranty, components 5 years, labor 1 year. LEDs don't burn out like incandescent bulbs; they dim very slowly over decades.

Yes. The system is rated from −40°F to 140°F and sealed against snow, ice and rain. Utah winters are exactly the condition it's designed for, and it's the same weather that makes hanging traditional lights miserable.

Not for most of it. We need access to an exterior outlet and about fifteen minutes at the end to set the app up on your phone and load your presets.

Yes. Fences, pergolas, columns, a detached garage, a new addition — all can be added to the same controller down the road without redoing what's already up.

If you can change a phone wallpaper you can run these lights. We set it up with you on install day. Most people use three presets and a dusk timer and never touch it again.

About the same as leaving a few night-lights on. A typical home runs a few dollars a month even with the lights on every night.

You call us. A damaged bulb or a connector that took water is a quick warranty fix. We installed it, so there's no finger-pointing between a manufacturer and an installer.

We're based in Riverton and serve Salt Lake County, Utah County and the Wasatch Front. If you're outside that, ask anyway — we travel for larger residential and commercial projects.

Neither. The channel fastens to the fascia and soffit — the flat boards under the eave — not through the roofing and not onto the gutter. Nothing penetrates the roof deck, nothing sits in the drip edge, and your drainage works exactly as it did before. This is the question that decides most roof-warranty worries, so we put it in writing on the quote.

No. This is the single biggest thing people carry over from strand lights, and it does not apply here. Each diode is individually addressable on its own circuit, so a failed one is a single dark dot, not a dead run. We replace the affected section — you don't rebuy the system.

Yes, and a fair number of people do. We run the front elevation first, leave the controller sized for the full house, and add the sides or back in a later visit at the same per-foot rate. Nothing has to be torn out or redone to expand it.

Yes. The remaining coverage transfers once to the new owner at no cost, which matters more than it sounds — it means the system reads as an improvement that conveys with the home rather than something the next buyer inherits with no support behind it. Tell us within 90 days of closing and we'll re-register it.

A Wasatch Front company charges roughly $700 to $1,200 a season to hang traditional lights and take them down again, and that number goes up most years. Permanent costs more the first year and nothing after it, so it crosses over somewhere around year four to six — sooner if you would have paid for takedown anyway. The full ten-year math is on our pricing page, including the years where we lose.

The DIY kits on Amazon exist and some people are happy with them. We don't sell one. The difference is the channel — cutting and color-matching aluminum to a specific roofline, sealing the connections, and getting the runs straight on a two-story is the part that separates a system that looks built-in from one that looks stuck on. If you want to do it yourself, we'd rather tell you that honestly than sell you a box.

Those are manufacturers who sell through dealer networks. The hardware across the good brands is more alike than the marketing suggests — individually addressable RGB+W in an aluminum channel. What differs is who actually shows up, how clean the install is, and who answers when you call in year four. We're local and we do the work ourselves. There's a full brand-by-brand comparison on our brand comparison page.