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Year-Round Eave Lighting

Permanent Holiday Lighting for Missoula and Western Montana Homes

A track of color-changing LEDs mounted under the eave and controlled from your phone, so the house can wear holiday colors in December and a soft warm white as accent lighting for the rest of the year.

Permanent holiday lighting is a low-profile aluminum track mounted to the underside of the eave, with individually addressable LED nodes set every 9 to 12 inches. The track is painted to match your fascia or soffit, so during the day it reads as a trim line and at night every node can be any color. From the app on your phone you pick red and green for December, maroon and silver for a home game, orange for October, or a plain warm white that makes the house look finished on any ordinary evening. Schedules run on their own with sunset triggers, so you never climb a ladder again and never store a strand.

The reason to have a construction company install a permanent system is that it lives on your house for a decade or more. The track has to be fastened into solid fascia or soffit framing rather than thin aluminum wrap, and every penetration through the exterior has to be sealed the way a carpenter seals one. Low-voltage wiring runs through the soffit to a controller near a GFCI-protected outlet. Our crews at Constructive Brothers frame and trim eaves for a living, so they know what is behind the fascia before drilling into it. We match the system to your roof and eave design, and every install comes with the same 48-Hour Repair Promise as our seasonal displays.

Permanent systems on Missoula homes generally run $4,000 to $9,000 installed, priced by total roofline footage and the complexity of the eave, with no annual install or takedown cost afterward.

Get Your Price

Send your address and what you have in mind. We reply with a price, usually the same day. Most homes: $700 to $2,500 for the full season.

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Why Us

Why Missoula Chooses Us for Permanent Holiday Lighting

Installed by carpenters who know the soffit

Fascia and the rafter tails behind it are things our crew builds on new homes. They fasten the track into solid wood rather than hollow trim and seal every hole, which is the difference between a system that lasts a decade and one that sags after two winters.

Invisible in daylight

The track is color-matched to your fascia and tucked under the eave, so from the street it disappears against the trim. Neighbors in HOA neighborhoods like Miller Creek notice the lights at night and nothing at all during the day, which keeps architectural committees happy.

Useful twelve months a year

Seasonal lights spend eleven months in a box. A permanent system gives you a warm white wash on the house every evening of the year and a full holiday display in December with one tap in the app, and game-day or Fourth of July colors are a tap away.

Built for Montana winters

The LED nodes are sealed against moisture and rated for temperatures well below zero, and the low-voltage system draws only a few amps at full brightness. The controller sits in a weatherproof enclosure near your GFCI outlet, and our 48-Hour Repair Promise covers any node or controller fault.

How It Works

Permanent Holiday Lighting, Step by Step

Eave inspection and layout

We inspect the fascia and soffit to confirm what the track will fasten into, then measure every run. You get a fixed written quote that covers the track, nodes, controller, wiring and app setup.

Color-match the track

Track is ordered or painted to match your fascia color so it disappears in daylight. We also confirm the node spacing, usually 9 or 12 inches, based on the length of your roofline and how bright you want the display.

Mount and wire

The crew fastens the track into solid framing and routes low-voltage wire through the soffit to the controller, sealing every penetration as they go. Most homes are finished in one or two days with no roof walking for a standard eave.

App setup and walkthrough

Before we leave, we connect the controller to your Wi-Fi and set up a sunset schedule with a few starting scenes. You will know how to change colors and timers on your own before the truck pulls out.

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Permanent Holiday Lighting We've Done

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FAQs

Permanent Holiday Lighting Questions, Answered

How is permanent lighting different from the seasonal C9 display?
Seasonal C9 strands are clipped on in the fall and removed in January, and you pay a seasonal price each year for install and takedown. A permanent system is a fixed track under the eave with color-changing LED nodes that stay up year round and are controlled from an app. It costs more up front, but there is no yearly install, and you can use it for more than Christmas. Many customers start with a seasonal display and move to permanent once they know what they want lit.
Will the track be visible on my house during the day?
From the street, no. The track is a slim aluminum channel, roughly an inch wide, mounted flush to the underside of the eave and finished in a color that matches your fascia. Standing directly below it and looking up you can see the nodes, but from the sidewalk or driveway it blends into the trim line. This matters in HOA neighborhoods like Grant Creek, where the daytime appearance of the house is what the architectural committee reviews.
Does it work on a steep metal roof or a house with no soffit?
Usually, yes, with some planning. On steep standing-seam metal roofs common in newer construction around Missoula, the track mounts to the fascia below the metal drip edge rather than to the roof itself, so the roofing is never penetrated. Houses with exposed rafter tails and no soffit take a different approach, with the track fastened to the face of the fascia and wiring run along the rafter bay. We sort this out at the inspection visit and will tell you plainly if a section is not a good candidate.
What happens if a node or the controller fails?
The same 48-Hour Repair Promise that covers our seasonal displays covers a permanent install. Call (406) 207-2524 and we schedule a visit within two days to replace the failed node or swap the controller. Because the nodes are individually addressable, a single failure does not take out the rest of the run, so you will usually notice one dark spot rather than a dark house. Many issues turn out to be Wi-Fi or app settings, which we can often fix over the phone.
Service Areas

Permanent Holiday Lighting Across Missoula and the Bitterroot

Based in Missoula. Bitterroot, Frenchtown, Blackfoot and Seeley Lake homes are grouped into route days so installs happen on schedule.

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