Put the lights up once.
Permanent LED lighting sits in a slim track under your roof edge and stays there. Warm white on an ordinary Tuesday. Red and green in December. Orange and purple for Halloween. All of it from your phone, and none of it from the top of a ladder in 30-degree weather.
- 15-year warranty
- Free on-site measure
- Albuquerque metro only
- Color-matched to your trim, so it reads as trim
The setting most homes run 300 nights a year.
Yes, it really is one system. Here is the hardware doing it.
You already know how the ladder story ends
It is the third weekend of November. It is colder than you thought it would be. Half the strand you carefully coiled last January does not light, the clips are brittle from a summer in a garage that hits 120 degrees, and you are standing on a tile roof with a staple gun working out whether the gap over the garage really matters.
Then in January you do the whole thing backwards, in worse weather, and put a box of tangled wire back in the garage so it can degrade for another eleven months.
Permanent lighting ends that loop. One install, done properly, and the lights live on your roofline year round. In December you set them to red and green from an app. In October you set them to orange and purple for Halloween, or to the balloon colors everyone in this city recognizes. The rest of the year most people run a soft warm white that makes the house look like it was designed that way, and quietly lights the driveway on the way in.
Albuquerque is a genuinely hard place to leave anything outdoors. We are at five thousand feet, the UV is punishing, the monsoon throws water sideways in August and it can hail hard enough to strip a roof. That is precisely why the throwaway string-light cycle is so expensive over ten years, and why the fixture that stays up has to be built for it. We go into the hardware in detail on the LED page.
What it looks like when it is not doing anything
The channel is color-matched to your fascia and sits in the shadow line under the roof edge, so it reads as trim rather than as equipment. These are two different jobs rather than a before-and-after of one house. We would rather show you real photographs than a staged pair.
Judge it properly at the estimate: we will show you on the house itself exactly where the channel would sit and how much of it you would ever see. More real jobs in the gallery.
One system, four jobs
Most people buy this for Christmas and then find they use it three hundred nights a year. Each of these has its own page, because each one gets quoted a little differently.
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EverydayPermanent outdoor lighting
Architectural warm white on the roofline, eaves and entry. The setting that is on almost every night of the year and makes the house look finished after dark.
Everyday lighting -
DecemberPermanent Christmas lights
Red and green, warm white, or whatever you actually like, on a timer from the first of December. Never rented a lift, never untangled a strand.
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All yearEvery other holiday
Halloween, the Fourth, St Patrick’s Day, Balloon Fiesta week, a birthday, a game. The reason people end up liking this more than they expected to.
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BusinessCommercial & HOA
Storefronts, offices and managed communities. One controller, a schedule that runs itself, and no seasonal contractor invoice every November.
Commercial lighting
Not sure which of those you are? Start with how the system actually works, or jump straight to what it costs.
How the job runs
Four steps, no surprises, and nobody turns up at your door unannounced.
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You tell us about the house
Two dropdowns and your name on the quote form. Single story or two, roughly which part of town, and what you are picturing. We come back to you within one business day.
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We measure it on site
We walk the roofline with you, measure the runs, look at the fascia, the roof pitch and where the power is going to come from, and talk about what you want lit and what you would rather leave dark. Free, and there is no pressure at the end of it.
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You get a real number
An itemized price for your actual roof, not a per-foot guess from a satellite photo. It says what is being lit, what hardware is going up, and what happens if something fails later. What moves that number.
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We install and set it up with you
Most single-story homes are a one-day job. Before we leave, we sit down with your phone, connect the controller, build your first few scenes and make sure you can drive it without calling us. If you want it changed later, that is a two-minute conversation.
Against what you are doing now
Both of these are legitimate choices. This is just the honest comparison, including the part where permanent lighting costs more on day one.
| Seasonal string lights | Permanent lighting | |
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| Up-front cost | Low, or an install fee every year | Higher once, then nothing |
| Your November | A ladder, a weekend, and the clips that snapped | Opening an app on the sofa |
| Your January | Doing it all again in the cold, then storing a box | Switching the scene back to warm white |
| Used outside December | No | Most nights of the year: warm white, Halloween, Fiesta, game day |
| Life in the New Mexico sun | Plastic goes brittle; a bad summer in the garage kills a set | Fixtures specified for permanent outdoor exposure |
| Straightness of the line | As straight as you can staple it at dusk | A fixed channel, so the line does not sag or move |
| If a light fails | Hunt the dead bulb, or bin the strand | We come and replace the point |
Real Albuquerque rooflines
Actual jobs, actual houses, photographed on the night. Stucco, tile, brick, parapets, arched entries, the things our houses are actually made of. See the full gallery.
Where we work
We stay inside the Albuquerque metro on purpose. It means a service call is a drive across town, not a scheduling problem. Full service-area detail.
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- Service area
- Albuquerque
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- Service area
- Rio Rancho
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- Service area
- Corrales
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- Service area
- Placitas & Bernalillo
The questions we get on every estimate
If yours is not here, there are more on the full FAQ page.
What actually is permanent lighting?
A slim channel is fixed under the edge of your roof, and inside it sits a line of small, individually controlled LED points. Each point can be any color, any brightness, on its own schedule. It stays up all year, so there is no putting it up and no taking it down. Here is the whole thing explained properly.
Will it look bad on my house during the day?
This is the question everyone asks, and it is a fair one. The channel is color-matched to your fascia or trim and sits in the shadow line under the roof edge, so from the street it reads as part of the house. There are dusk and after-dark photos above so you can judge it rather than taking our word for it.
How much does it cost in Albuquerque?
It depends on how much roofline you want lit, how many stories the house is, and how awkward the roof is to work on. We do not publish a flat number because a flat number would be wrong for most houses. We measure your actual roof and give you a real figure. Here is exactly what drives the price up and down.
Do I need to be home for the install?
For the estimate, yes. It helps to walk the house together and talk through what you want lit. For the install itself, we mostly need access to the exterior and one outdoor outlet or garage circuit for the controller. Plenty of customers are at work while we do it.
Can I still put out my own decorations?
Of course. The roofline is the part that is miserable to do from a ladder. Inflatables, the tree in the window, the reindeer on the gravel are all still yours. Most people find they keep doing the ground-level stuff and just stop climbing.
Do you only work in Albuquerque?
Albuquerque is the core of it, and we also cover Rio Rancho, Corrales, Placitas, Bernalillo, Los Lunas and out toward the East Mountains. Full list of where we work.
Find out what your roofline would cost
Tell us about the house and we will come measure it. You get a real number for your actual roof, not a guess off a satellite photo.
- Backed by a 15-year warranty.
- Albuquerque metro only. We are not a franchise routing you to a subcontractor.
- Every estimate is measured on site, in person, before you get a number.
Start your quote
Two dropdowns and your name. Everything else is optional.