What it costs in Lafayette — kit prices, pulled live

These are the same numbers on my product pages, read from the store when this page was built (October 11, 2026). I'd rather you have the number before you give anyone your phone number.

Every roofline kit includes the aluminum track, RGBW strands, the pitch-matched TrueCenter Apex Track peak, a 600 W power supply, the 4-zone controller, color-matched hardware and the install guide. Roof pitch (4/12, 6/12, 9/12, 12/12) and track color are chosen at checkout.

What the whole job runs

The kit above is the material part of the job. The rest is labor, ladders, insurance, the time to measure and lay out your roofline, and somebody standing behind the work once it's on your house. Scotty sets that number after seeing your roof, and I don't publish a range for it — his pricing is his to quote, not mine to guess at.

What the installer adds, and why I don't quote it

Labor. Scotty measures your roofline, picks the pitch and color, mounts the track, and stands behind the work on your roof. That price depends on your house — stories, gables, access, how many peaks — and he sets it, not me. Any installed price I printed here would be a guess dressed up as a fact, so you get the half I control and the name of the person who quotes the rest.

Who installs it here

Nobody paid to be on this page. Smart Homes of Louisiana does security, cameras and home automation in Lafayette, and its own site says it also installs soffit permanent and landscape lighting and names IronPeak. Scotty is here because he bought the track, not a spot.

Request a quote from Smart Homes of Louisiana

Right now your request comes to me first, and I pass it to Scotty at Smart Homes of Louisiana myself. If you haven't heard from Scotty within 2 business days, email me at devan@ironpeaklighting.com and I'll chase it myself.

Why the peak looks right — and how it goes on a Lafayette roofline

Most systems start at the gutter and work up, so spacing errors pile up at the peak — the one spot everyone looks at from the street. The TrueCenter Apex Track is a one-piece, pitch-matched peak that goes on first, so the lights center on your ridge and the run works outward symmetrically. It's patent-pending, it ships in your track color, and it goes up in under 5 minutes instead of 25-plus minutes of cutting on a ladder.

1. Measure and quote. Scotty measures the roofline, matches the track color to your fascia and soffit, and quotes labor on top of the kit price above.
2. Peak first. The Apex Track matched to your pitch — 4/12, 6/12, 9/12 or 12/12 — is fastened at the ridge with its center node dead on the apex. Under 5 minutes.
3. Track outward. 1-meter sections of 6063-T6 aluminum are screwed to the fascia both directions from the peak. Strands plug together with factory-terminated waterproof connectors — no cutting, no splicing on the roof.
4. One box, one power connection. The 600 W supply and 4-zone controller share one enclosure. The app goes on your phone and the schedule gets set for Lafayette, not a factory default.

30-Day Perfect Peak Guarantee — From our product pages: “If any Apex peak doesn't sit true and symmetrical out of the box, we replace it free and cover the shipping — no hassle.”

What you control from your phone

One controller, four independent zones, an app on your phone. Christmas is Christmas, and the rest of the year the house reads as plain warm white, or off.

• Colors. RGBW nodes — red, green, blue and a true 2800K warm white — so Christmas is Christmas and the rest of the year the house reads as plain warm white, or off.
• Zones. Four independent outputs with their own node counts and animations; the front can run a scene while the back stays white.
• Schedules and scenes. Timers, presets and saved scenes over WiFi or Bluetooth. Tap once for Thanksgiving, once more for game day.
• Brightness. Dimmable. I don't publish a brightness rating; ask Scotty whether there's a lit house you can see.

Set the on-time for Lafayette's own sunset, because it comes early here in December:

In Lafayette the sun rises at 7:00 a.m. and sets at 5:12 p.m. on December 21. Source: U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications API, rise and set for Lafayette (30.2241, -92.0198), December 21, 2026, UTC-6, fetched October 11, 2026.

Built for Lafayette weather

In Lafayette the weather you plan around is water and wind more than cold. I'd rather you read what NOAA and the National Weather Service recorded than take my word for it. These are records of what the weather did, not ratings for any roofline.

A normal Lafayette year brings 62.81 inches of precipitation, and 0.10 inch or more falls on 76.7 days of it (1991-2020 normals). Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 Normals, annual/seasonal (ANN-PRCP-NORMAL, ANN-PRCP-AVGNDS-GE010HI, station USW00013976), fetched October 11, 2026.

The National Weather Service reports that the Lafayette airport recorded a peak gust of 75 mph during Hurricane Delta on October 9, 2020 (post-storm data the NWS labels preliminary). Source: National Weather Service Lake Charles, LA: Hurricane Delta 2020, wind and pressure reports, fetched October 11, 2026.

What that means for the hardware

• Water: every LED node is encapsulated in UV-stabilized polyurethane, which flexes through freeze-thaw instead of cracking like epoxy, and every connector is factory-terminated and waterproof — zero field splices, so there is no gel-filled joint to fail in a wet December.
• Power: the whole run is low-voltage 24 V DC from one 600 W supply with multi-layer surge protection built in.
• Wind: the 6063-T6 aluminum track is screwed to the fascia, not clipped or glued, and the wire is 18 AWG UV-resistant three-conductor — heavier than the 20 AWG most systems ship.
• Sun: The track is up through Lafayette's summer too; the UV-stabilized encapsulation and the powder-coated track are there for July as much as for December.

What it looks like in daylight

You see the track, not the lights. It sits under the roofline in 1-meter powder-coated sections and comes in four colors so it matches the fascia or soffit instead of announcing itself.

• Matte Black — dark trim.
• White — white fascia and vinyl soffit.
• Oyster White — cream and off-white trim.
• Brown — brown fascia, cedar and darker brick.

Scotty picks the color against your trim at the quote. Availability varies by color and pitch, so decide early.

When Lafayette expects the lights on

The season here has a soft edge, not a hard one. Freezing nights are the exception in Lafayette, so cold is rarely what decides when an install happens.

Lafayette's normal December is a 64.4°F high and 45.3°F low, and January is 62.2°F/43.5°F (1991-2020 normals at Lafayette Regional Airport). Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals (station USW00013976, LAFAYETTE RGNL AP, LA US), fetched October 11, 2026.

Lafayette's median first freeze is December 4 and its median last freeze is February 13, and the airport station averages 11.3 nights a year at or below 32°F (1991-2020 normals). Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 Normals, annual/seasonal (ANN-TMIN-PRBFST-T32FP50, ANN-TMIN-PRBLST-T32FP50, ANN-TMIN-AVGNDS-LSTH032, station USW00013976), fetched October 11, 2026.

So the honest advice is to put the dates you want in the form. Scotty will tell you what he has when he gets in touch.

What to hand your HOA

Lafayette's code has a section on commercial lighting, and the line about houses is quoted below. If you're in an association, your recorded covenants govern your exterior — read them before you order. That document decides, not me.

Section 89-37 of the Lafayette Unified Development Code is titled Commercial lighting, and it says it does not apply to single-family detached residences. Source: Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government Code of Ordinances, Ch. 89 Unified Development Code, Art. 3, § 89-37 (eLaws), fetched October 11, 2026.

If you do need approval, get the request in before the install date, not after. What to attach:

• The track color you're using, against a photo of your trim (the four colors are above).
• One sentence that the fixture is a low-profile aluminum track mounted under the roofline, with no exposed bulbs or wire.
• Your schedule: what hours it runs, and that outside the holidays it's warm white or off.

What it adds to your power bill

Two competitors print a monthly dollar figure with no source. Here is the arithmetic so you can check mine.

kWh per month = nodes × 0.96 W ÷ 1000 × hours per night × nights. 0.96 W is the maximum draw per node from my spec sheet; a node is one puck, spaced one per foot.

Example: a 100 ft kit carries 100 nodes. 100 × 0.96 W = 96 W. Six hours a night for a month: 0.096 kW × 180 h = 17.28 kWh. At Lafayette Utilities System's residential energy plus fuel charge of 9.624 cents a kilowatt hour that is about $1.66 a month — at full white, every node, every night. Colors and dimming draw less; your actual tariff and riders may differ.

Lafayette Utilities System's residential Schedule R1 charges 5.224 cents per kilowatt hour for energy, and its monthly fuel charge is 4.4 cents per kilowatt hour for meter readings from October 1, 2026; a fixed monthly customer charge and taxes are added on top. Source: Lafayette Utilities System, residential Schedule R1 (effective Nov. 2025) and its Monthly Fuel Charge sheet (from Oct. 1, 2026), fetched October 11, 2026.

The one maintenance task

Nothing comes down in January and nothing goes in the attic. The one job left is a rinse when the season's grime washes off — from the ground, with a hose.

Start with the front, add the rest later

The controller has four independent zones. I'd start with zones 1 and 2 on the front roofline and add the gables, sides or the second story on zones 3 and 4 later — even a year later — with a 25 ft add-on ($299) or a 50 ft add-on ($499). Same power supply, same controller, nothing re-mapped. The add-on is the same track and the same nodes at the same spacing, so the join is invisible.

The warranty, word for word

From our product pages:

30-Day Perfect Peak Guarantee — “If any Apex peak doesn't sit true and symmetrical out of the box, we replace it free and cover the shipping — no hassle.”

5-Year Product Warranty — “The components — LED strands, controller, and power supply — are covered against product defects for 5 years from purchase. (Normal weather wear-and-tear isn't a defect and isn't covered.)”

First-order money-back — “Your first 100 ft kit is backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee — return the material and your refund comes back as cash.”

The refund structure — what comes back as cash and what comes back as store credit — is on the returns and guarantee page, in full, rather than paraphrased here. Labor on your roof is Smart Homes of Louisiana's to stand behind; the product is mine.

Lafayette-area towns

Scotty's website doesn't publish a lighting service area, so this list isn't in his words. It's the places in Lafayette Parish, where his published address is, as the Census Bureau lists them.

The Census Bureau's ACS 2024 5-year estimates put Lafayette Parish at 247,997 people, with these places inside it: Lafayette (121,715), Youngsville (17,427), Broussard (14,322), Carencro (11,619), Scott (8,609), Milton (2,793), Ossun (2,271) and Duson (1,282). Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year (B01003, B25001) via Census Reporter API, places inside Lafayette Parish (geo 05000US22055), fetched October 11, 2026.

• YoungsvilleLafayette Parish — request goes to Scotty through me
• BroussardLafayette Parish — request goes to Scotty through me
• CarencroLafayette Parish — request goes to Scotty through me
• ScottLafayette Parish — request goes to Scotty through me
• MiltonLafayette Parish — request goes to Scotty through me
• OssunLafayette Parish — request goes to Scotty through me
• DusonLafayette Parish — request goes to Scotty through me

These are the places in Lafayette Parish, chosen by me, not by Scotty. His website doesn't publish a lighting service area, and the page says so. Towns outside this list still route to Scotty through me when the ZIP is in Louisiana; he confirms coverage on the call.

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