The questions people actually ask.

It depends on your home — which is exactly why every project is quoted in person, for free, with an exact price. Anyone quoting permanent lighting over the phone is guessing, and guesses turn into surprise charges on install day.

What actually drives the price

• Linear footage of roofline. The single biggest factor. A sprawling single-story ranch in Rockwall can need more footage than a compact two-story in Frisco.
• Height and roofline complexity. Second-story gables, steep pitches and cut-up rooflines take more time and more equipment than a straight single-story run.
• Scope. Front elevation only is the cheapest starting point. Adding the garage line, the patio, the fence line or landscape beds adds footage.

The one honest number we can give you up front: Bosso — the manufacturer whose system we install — publishes that their average customer pays around $5,000 out the door nationally. Smaller front-only jobs come in under that; large two-story homes with patio and landscape come in over it. Nobody else on your shortlist will put a number on a web page, and that is the point.

We will also tell you where to spend less. If the back of the house is not visible from anywhere you actually sit, we will say so rather than sell you footage you will never turn on.

Bosso's average install is 8 to 10 hours — most homes are a single day. A straightforward single-story front elevation is often a single day. A large two-story with patio, fence line and landscape runs into a second or third day.

You do not need to be home for the install itself, only for the walkthrough at the end. We work from the outside — nobody needs access to the inside of the house except to place the controller.

No. The track is fastened into the wood fascia or trim lumber under the eave with screws. Nothing is drilled into shingles, decking or the roof field.

That matters twice over. First, no penetration means no new leak path — and in DFW your roof already has hail to deal with without us adding holes to it. Second, your shingle warranty stays intact; most roofing warranties are voided by third-party penetrations, and this system does not create any.

Luis came out of roofing, which is the reason this is the first question we answer rather than the last.

Barely. The track is powder-coated to match your fascia color before it ships, and it is quarter-gauge aluminum — about as thick as a pencil. Mounted under the eave it reads as a shadow line.

This is the honest version: you will know it is there because you paid for it. Someone driving past will not notice it. Look at the daylight photos on the gallery page and judge for yourself before you buy — we would rather you decide from a photograph than be surprised.

Usually yes — and permanent lighting is often approved where seasonal strands are banned. The reason is that HOAs object to what strands look like: clips on the shingle line, cords down the wall, and the fact that half the street still has them up in March. Permanent lighting has none of that.

Plenty of DFW neighborhoods — Prosper, Southlake, Highland Park, most of Frisco — have real architectural review. We will give you the color-match spec, the mounting detail and product photos in a form you can submit. What we cannot do is approve it for you, and we will not install ahead of an approval you still need.

North Texas is the honest test case for this product, so here is the straight answer.

Freeze and heat: the control box is an IP68 weatherproof, UV-resistant enclosure and the power supply is UL Listed Class 2. The track is powder-coated aluminum with stainless fasteners. It expands and contracts with the fascia, and it is rated across the temperature range DFW actually sees — a 110-degree August and a 5-degree February.

Hail: the track sits under the eave, not on the roof plane, which is the single best place on the house to be during a hailstorm. It is not indestructible. A severe storm that takes your shingles will damage anything mounted on the house, and no permanent lighting product on the market is rated otherwise.

If your roof is replaced later, tell the roofer the track is there. We can remove and reset a run around a re-roof.

Individual pucks are replaceable — a bad light is swapped out of the track rather than the whole run being pulled. Bosso's manufacturer warranty is 5 years on parts and 1 year on labour.

Call the number on this site and you get one of the owners. Bring the app up on your phone when you call; about half of what people report as a dead light is a scene that got saved with that light set to off.

A few dollars a month. Bosso puts it plainly: the system draws about the same energy as five light bulbs. The whole thing runs at 12 volts on efficient LEDs. A typical front-elevation run at warm white on a dusk-to-midnight schedule draws less than a couple of old-style flood lights.

Full brightness at full color across the whole house every night draws more. You control it, and the app shows you the schedule you are actually running.

Most people buy it for December and end up using it 300 nights a year. Warm white on a sunset timer is what it does most of the time, and it is the thing people say they did not expect to love.

Beyond that: school colors on Friday night, navy and silver on Sunday, red white and blue for the Fourth, orange and purple in October, a lived-in varying schedule while you are traveling, and full brightness as security lighting when you want the front of the house genuinely lit rather than outlined.

Three of them.

It is a real cost up front. Several thousand dollars against a couple hundred for strands. It pays back over years, not months, and if you are moving in eighteen months it probably is not for you.

The track is permanent. It is designed to stay. If you ever have it removed, the fascia has screw holes that need filling and painting.

It is only as good as the install. Badly installed permanent lighting sags, shows, and leaks. That is the whole reason to care who does it — ask any company you talk to what they fasten into, and if the answer is the shingle edge or the drip edge, keep looking.

It is attached to the house, so it stays with the house — the same way a ceiling fan does. Practically it is a selling feature: the buyer inherits the app, the schedules and the remainder of the product warranty.

If you are building and want it on a house you do not yet own, wait until closing. We will hold the quote.