TruLight Omaha installs permanent LED lighting on Elkhorn rooflines. Weather-rated LED nodes sit inside a low-profile aluminum track fastened along the fascia and drip edge, so the system reads as trim in daylight and turns on from an app after dark. Warm white through the week, holiday colors in December, school colors for a Friday game. Most of what we install out here goes on the newer builds west of 180th Street, where three garage gables and the entry line give the track a clean, continuous run. Call (402) 704-8151 for a free estimate at your address.
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Mounted in aluminum track on the fascia, never clipped to your gutters
One install, then no December ladder work on an iced two-story gable
Warm white on ordinary nights, holiday and school colors on demand
Low profile by day, which is what SID and HOA committees approve
Fastened for the hail and straight-line wind this side of the metro gets
Zoned so garage face, gables and entry can run separately
Elkhorn stayed Elkhorn after the annexation. It kept its schools, its own 68022 zip and Elkhorn Days every summer, and people here still say they live in Elkhorn rather than Omaha. What that means for an installer is a service area with a very consistent building profile. Almost everything west of 180th Street went up in the 2000s or later, and the newest streets are still being framed out toward 216th. The school district calls the quadrant from 168th to 204th between Blondo and Ida its fastest-growing area, and that is where most of our estimates are written.
The standard elevation out here is a ranch or two-story with a three-car garage and a stone or stucco front. That gives us three garage gables, the entry line and the eave returns, which is close to ideal geometry for track-mounted LED. The track follows the fascia and drip edge in continuous runs, so the peaks get picked up instead of skipped and there are no visible gaps where a clip would sit. On the larger custom homes at Westbury Farm above the Elkhorn River valley, or in The Prairies, we zone the system so the front elevation, the peaks and any side or rear runs are controlled separately rather than all firing the same scene.
Neighborhoods we work in regularly include Blue Sage Creek southwest of 204th and Center, Westbury Farm out at 216th and F Street, Grandview Ridge Estates, Silverleaf Estates, The Prairies, Five Fountains and Indian Creek. Anchor Pointe is worth a note, because people mix it up: it sits north of Ida between 168th and 180th, overlooks Flanagan Lake, and feeds Bennington schools rather than Elkhorn. We install there too, and it is covered on our Bennington page.
New subdivisions on this side of the metro are organized as Sanitary and Improvement Districts with an HOA layered on top, so most Elkhorn homeowners have covenants to answer to. Read yours before you sign anything for exterior lighting. Many require architectural approval for permanently mounted or hardwired lighting, and the committees that review it are all asking the same question underneath: what does this look like when it is switched off?
Our answer is the track itself. It is a slim aluminum channel fastened to the drip edge or fascia, available in colors that match common trim, with the LED nodes recessed inside it. From the street in daylight it reads as part of the roof edge. We can supply the product specifications and photos of a finished install for your submission, and we hold the install date until the approval comes back.
Once the system is in, the scenes are what you actually live with. Most owners keep a warm white preset running as the everyday look, because that is the house on a normal Tuesday. The calendar gets its own presets from there: red and green through Christmas, orange and purple in October, red, white and blue around the Fourth, and school colors on a game night.
Party and event scenes are the other regular use. A single color for a birthday, a graduation, or a summer evening during Elkhorn Days, set from the app and scheduled to shut off on its own. The system also handles brightness, so the front roofline can be soft on a weeknight and brighter when people are coming over.
Elkhorn has had a run of weather that makes the case on its own. On April 26, 2024, an EF-4 tornado with 170 mph winds crossed far western Elkhorn on both sides of 216th Street, and much of what it took down was newly built. Those streets were rebuilt. The same year, the metro took 2-inch hail on June 12 and a bow echo on July 31 with winds over 90 mph. Clip-on strands and adhesive channel do not come through a season like that. Aluminum track fastened to the fascia with the nodes held inside it is a different class of installation, and it stays where it was put.
Winter is the quieter argument, and it is usually the one that gets people to call. Carrying a strand up a ladder onto an iced gable in December is the job nobody in the house wants, and on a steep two-story Elkhorn front it is genuinely dangerous. Once the track is installed, the ladder stays in the garage and the seasonal change happens on a phone.
If you are already having roofing, fascia or gutter work done after a storm, that is the least expensive moment to add lighting. The roof edge is accessible, the trades are not working around each other, and the track goes on before the new trim is finished out. Tell us your roofer's schedule and we will fit around it. Our metal track lighting systems page explains how the channel itself is built.
We measure the roofline at your address, walk the zones with you, and give you exact pricing before anything is ordered.
How the system works, what the app controls, and what a full roofline install includes.
The aluminum channel behind the install, built for Omaha-area wind, ice and heat.
Newport Landing, Anchor Pointe and Stone Creek, one exit east of Elkhorn.
Elkhorn estimates are measured on site, not quoted off a satellite image. We look at the roof edge, the fascia and gutter condition, where power is available, and where the controller should live, then price the zones you actually want lit. If you want to compare against a specific service first, start with permanent LED lighting or call (402) 704-8151.