Pergolas and cabanas, docks and boathouses, sport courts, fences, retaining walls, feature trees, outdoor kitchens, stairways cut into a hillside. If it can be lit and it has to survive an Ontario winter, we have probably built something like it.
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Usually something like: “can you do something with the pergola?” The answer is nearly always yes, and the interesting part is what happens next.
A custom project is anything that is not a standard roofline run, a catalogue landscape fixture or a pool package. In practice that means the parts of a property nobody plans for at build time: the pergola that gets used every summer evening, the dock that is genuinely dangerous to walk in the dark, the stone retaining wall that is the best feature in the yard and completely invisible after 5pm.
The work usually involves fabrication — track bent to a curve, a bracket to get a fixture onto an awkward beam, a mounting detail that keeps water out of a joint never designed to have a wire in it. That is what separates a custom install from a strip of tape light stuck to a beam, which is what you get otherwise and which lasts about one season.
None of these are catalogue items. All of them are on client properties right now.
Track recessed into rafter tails so the structure glows without a visible source, plus dimmable warm light over the table.
Marine-grade deck and post lighting on St Lawrence, Ottawa River and Valley lake waterfront properties, installed to survive ice-out.
Pickleball, basketball and rink lighting aimed for play rather than spill — usable at 9pm without a floodlight in a neighbour's window.
Linear runs capped into the top course or under the cap stone, washing down the face. Very effective, almost invisible.
Seasonal perimeter lighting on a removable mount, up in December and stored in March without a trace on the fence.
Specimen trees, water features, art, address monuments — anything that deserves to be the one lit thing in a dark space.
Half of what we quote starts as a text message with a picture of a pergola attached. Tell us the idea in a sentence.
We look at mounting surfaces, power access, sight lines and how the space is used, then sketch options with rough numbers.
Brackets, bends and custom lengths made in the shop so site time is short, then built, sealed, wired, added to your app and aimed after dark.
No. We have done single-fixture jobs — one uplight on one tree — and we have done whole-property builds. Small jobs get scheduled around larger ones, so a one-fixture visit might wait a week or two in peak season.
Regularly, and it is much easier if we are involved before hardscape goes down. Conduit sleeved under a patio at the base stage costs nothing; cutting it in afterward costs a lot. Put us in the conversation early and the install gets cleaner and cheaper.
It is a function of hours and parts, and it varies enormously — a pergola and a full back yard with several elements are not the same project. There is no minimum size. We quote it itemised, so you can see what each element costs and drop any of them.
Adhesive-mounted tape light outdoors — it is an indoor product and it will not last one Ontario winter. Anything not rated to −40 °C. And we never penetrate a roof deck. Those three rules eliminate most of the fun-looking hardware on the internet.
Often, yes. Sometimes the honest answer is that what is there should come out — badly connected joints and adhesive strip in particular. We will tell you which of the two it is before you pay us anything.
Text a photo and a sentence to 613-499-4888, or book a site visit. Either way the first conversation is free.
