Questions about TryLights

No. Every picture on this site that shows lights on a house is our own render, and we say so under each one. None of it is manufacturer photography.

Each render is tied to a specific product and constrained to what that product can physically do — its zone count, the spacing between points, the colour range it supports. A picture that flatters a kit by drawing more zones than it has would be worse than useless to you.

The position of the run, the spacing between points and the colours are accurate to the product on the page.

Brightness is the honest weak spot. How bright a kit looks on a house depends on the siding colour, the street lighting and how dark it actually gets where you live. We render a reasonable middle, and it is a visualisation rather than a photograph.

Because manufacturer photography is shot on a dark street, at the right hour, on a house chosen to flatter the product. We shoot every kit on the same three houses instead, so the difference you are looking at is the difference between the kits.

They are illustrations we generate, the same way the renders on the sample houses are. Each one is drawn onto the same plain background so the catalogue reads as one set, and none of them is a photograph — not of the product, not of anything else. The line under each one says so.

So read the picture for the rough shape of the fixture and the spec table beside it for the facts. Where a detail decides the purchase — the finish, the size of a bulb, the shape of a stake — the listing behind the button is the one to trust.

31 at the moment, across six categories: permanent eave runs, outdoor string lights, pathway lights, landscape spotlights, outdoor wall lights and seasonal Christmas lights. They come from whichever brands are actually selling, not from one manufacturer. Each carries its real length, light count and spacing on the card.

Use the calculator. It takes about a minute, wants the front eave length, the number of gables and your roof pitch, and it tells you which kit length to buy and how much spare you will have. Guessing this is the most expensive mistake in the whole purchase.

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Usually, if you are comfortable on a ladder and your fascia takes a screw. Check three things first: an exterior outlet within reach of where the run ends, fascia that is not aluminium capping over rotten wood, and whether your HOA has anything to say about permanent exterior fixtures.

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