What it costs in Sacramento — kit prices, pulled live

These are the same numbers on my product pages, read from the store when this page was built (October 12, 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. Eric 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. Eric 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. Eric Nordhoff runs NyteLyte Outdoor Lighting, and his own site lists permanent lighting alongside temporary and landscape work. He's here because he bought the track, not because he bought a spot. He publishes his area as the Greater Sacramento Area, a region rather than a list of towns, and the card below quotes it exactly.

Request a quote from NyteLyte Outdoor Lighting

Right now your request comes to me first, and I pass it to Eric at NyteLyte Outdoor Lighting myself. If you haven't heard from Eric 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 Sacramento 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. Eric 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 Sacramento, 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 Eric whether there's a lit house you can see.

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

Sacramento sunset is 4:46 p.m. on December 1 and 4:49 p.m. on December 21. Source: sunrise-sunset.org solar calculator (December 1 is the same query with date=2026-12-01); coordinates 38.5810606, -121.493895 from OpenStreetMap Nominatim, fetched October 11, 2026.

Built for Sacramento weather

Sacramento has two weathers: a wet winter and a hot, dry summer. A system that stays up all year has to be right for both, which is the case for a permanently mounted track rather than clips you handle twice a year.

Sacramento averages 75.6 days a year at or above 90°F and 14.0 days at or above 100°F (1991-2020 normals at Sacramento Executive Airport). Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 Annual/Seasonal Normals (ANN-TMAX-AVGNDS-GRTH090 and GRTH100, station USW00023232), fetched October 11, 2026.

Sacramento has 535,787 people and 211,869 housing units, 58.8% of them single-family detached; 50.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied and the median home was built in 1978 (ACS 2024 1-year estimates). Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2024 1-year (B01003, B25001, B25003, B25024, B25035) via Census Reporter API (geo 16000US0664000), 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: Sacramento's long summers are the other half of the year; 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.

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

When Sacramento expects the lights on

Rain sets the season here, not frost. A normal December has about seven nights at or below freezing and January about five, so frost is an occasional morning.

Sacramento's normal December is a 56.0°F high and 38.5°F low, and January is 56.0°F/39.2°F, with 6.7 December nights and 5.0 January nights at or below 32°F (1991-2020 normals at Sacramento Executive Airport). Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals (station USW00023232, SACRAMENTO EXECUTIVE AP, CA US), fetched October 11, 2026.

Sacramento's normal precipitation is 0.85 inches in October, 1.66 in November, 3.43 in December and 3.66 in January, against 0.00 inches in July (1991-2020 normals at Sacramento Executive Airport). Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 Normals (MLY-PRCP-NORMAL, station USW00023232), fetched October 11, 2026.

So the honest booking advice is early autumn, before the rain settles in. October averages 0.85 inches and December 3.43. Put the date you want in the form, and Eric will tell you what he has once I've passed your request on.

What to hand your HOA

If you're in an association, your recorded covenants govern your exterior. Read them before you order, and get any approval in writing. That document decides, not me.

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 SMUD's non-summer peak price of 17.76 cents a kilowatt hour (weekdays, 5 to 8 p.m.) that is about $3.07 a month — at full white, every node, every night. Colors and dimming draw less; your actual tariff and riders may differ.

SMUD's Time-of-Day (5-8 p.m.) Rate, which it lists as the standard rate for residential customers, is 17.76 cents per kilowatt hour on weekdays from 5 to 8 p.m. and 12.85 cents at all other hours from October 1 through May 31 (2026 prices). Source: Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) — Residential rates, pricing plans by season, 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 NyteLyte Outdoor Lighting's to stand behind; the product is mine.

Sacramento-area towns

Eric publishes his area as “the Greater Sacramento Area”, a region rather than a town list, and I won't put towns in his mouth. These are the other cities in Sacramento County and the cities and town of neighboring Placer County, each from that county's own list. If your town isn't here, send the request anyway.

Sacramento County's own list names seven incorporated cities: Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, Folsom, Galt, Isleton, Rancho Cordova and Sacramento. Source: County of Sacramento — Cities within the County, fetched October 11, 2026.

Placer County's own site lists its cities and town as Auburn, Colfax, Lincoln, Rocklin, Roseville and the Town of Loomis. Source: Placer County — Partners (Cities/Towns/Communities), fetched October 12, 2026.

• Citrus HeightsSacramento County — request goes to Eric through me
• Elk GroveSacramento County — request goes to Eric through me
• FolsomSacramento County — request goes to Eric through me
• GaltSacramento County — request goes to Eric through me
• IsletonSacramento County — request goes to Eric through me
• Rancho CordovaSacramento County — request goes to Eric through me
• RosevillePlacer County — request goes to Eric through me
• RocklinPlacer County — request goes to Eric through me
• LincolnPlacer County — request goes to Eric through me
• AuburnPlacer County — request goes to Eric through me
• LoomisPlacer County — request goes to Eric through me
• ColfaxPlacer County — request goes to Eric through me

Eric publishes a region, not a list of towns. These are the other cities in Sacramento County and the cities and town of Placer County, from each county's own list; they are IronPeak's list, not his. Towns outside this list still route to Eric through me when the ZIP is in the Greater Sacramento area; he confirms coverage on the call.

Questions Sacramento homeowners ask