The Complete Laval & North Shore Lighting Guide

Why Laval and North Shore homeowners choose permanent lighting

For a good part of the year, there isn't much daylight left when you get home. On 15 November the sun sets at 4:25 p.m. in Laval. On 8 December, 4:12 p.m. Everything you paid for — the stonework, the roofline, the landscaping — goes dark around four in the afternoon and stays that way until morning.

The second reason is the December ladder. On a new two-storey build in Blainville or Terrebonne, hanging Christmas lights means climbing, moving the ladder, climbing again, on ground that freezes and thaws. Then repeating the whole thing in January to take them down. A permanent system settles that once: the lights are already there, inside an aluminum rail fixed to the roofline, and December becomes a scene you pick in the app.

Then there is salt and ice. Patio fixtures and seasonal string lights are not built for a North Shore winter. A permanent system is: sealed, mounted for good, with nothing hanging.

What happens when you book a Laval or North Shore install

Six steps, and you can stop at any of them.

Free consultation. We listen to what you want, and we look at what the building will actually carry.

Design. Our team shows you your house lit, at night, before you commit to anything. Not a photo of someone else's home — yours. This is the step that settles most of the questions, because a lit roofline is hard to picture from a description.

Quote and in-person demo. A consultant comes to you with the demo products and leaves an itemized quote.

Scheduling. The project manager books your dates around your calendar. A standard installation takes one to three days; larger projects can run past five.

Installation and handover. Technicians are overseen start to finish, and we walk you through the app before we leave.

Warranty and service. Exact terms further down.

Vision Bleu is based in LaSalle, holds RBQ licence 5864-7108-01, and has more than 500 residential installations behind it. We have installed in Laval and in Blainville.

Exterior lighting on the North Shore's housing stock

A new roofline in Blainville or Mirabel is one continuous line: soffits, peaks, dormers. It can be underlined in a single stroke, and what you see from the street is the whole house rather than pieces of it.

A few things we do on exterior lighting that aren't obvious from the curb.

Every soffit level gets lit, not just the top. The main upper roofline, the first-storey roof, the covered-porch roof — all three carry the same channel. Lighting only the top edge and leaving the lower edges dark reads as wrong immediately.

The rail mounts on the front leading edge, not tucked back under the soffit. The slim aluminum housing sits on the outer edge of the fascia, visible from the street. Light throws down and outward from that edge, which traces the outline of the roof geometry. The wall below stays comparatively dark — this is not a wall wash. It is the difference between a bright line drawing the building and a glow leaking out of a recess.

The garage surround. On a garage-forward house — the norm in the newer streets of Terrebonne and Mirabel — the garage is half of what the street sees. Outlining that opening changes the balance of the whole facade.

Columns depend on the architecture. On a modern house — low-slope roof, square columns, large glazing — vertical bars on the columns suit the building, and we install them. On a traditional house with peaks, stone and a covered porch, we leave the columns alone. The soffit line is enough.

On the Chomedey and Laval-des-Rapides bungalows it is lower and wider. One line goes around, and the result is often cleaner than a two-storey house, because the eye takes the whole building in at once.

Holiday lighting without a ladder in Laval and on the North Shore

This is where exterior lighting and holiday lighting stop being two things. Same rail, same pixels, same app.

The LEDs are individually addressable — 16 million colours, and you choose exactly which ones come on. In practice: warm white from January through November, red and green in December, orange for Halloween, blue and white for the Saint-Jean. Program it once, put it on a calendar, and it runs itself.

What that removes: the November day on the ladder, the box of tangled strings in the garage, the half-string that stopped working, and the January day spent taking it all back down.

Schedules follow sunrise and sunset, so the house comes on at the right time without you thinking about it — which matters when sunset moves by three hours between June and December.

Interior lighting in new North Shore construction

A new North Shore house usually has the volumes for it: coved ceilings, an open stair, a kitchen island, a living space that isn't walled off.

Three places interior lighting pays off most.

Cove. A continuous run inside a coved ceiling lights the ceiling rather than the room. The light is indirect, there is no bright point to look at, and the room warms up a notch.

Stairs. We install full-width light bars under each step nose — one continuous line spanning the whole tread, edge to edge. Not dots, not short segments. It is a visible difference, and it is what makes a stair readable in the dark.

Kitchen. Under the cabinets and under the island. The counter becomes a lit work surface by day and a low glow in the evening.

Interior runs on the same app as the exterior, and it can be added later if you don't do everything at once.

Landscape lighting on larger North Shore lots

Lots out here are bigger than on the island of Montréal, and half of what you landscaped disappears in the evening.

What landscape lighting covers: mature trees from below, walkways, planting beds, the pool and the deck. Wiring is buried. Landscape fixtures are sealed and built to stay outside through the winter.

Tying it to the facade is the part that matters: same app, same scenes, same schedule. Back yard and front come on together or separately, whichever you prefer.

Quebec winter and the hardware

The numbers that count here.

• IP68 — sealed against water. Freezing rain, wet snow and water pooling in a gutter aren't edge cases on the North Shore.
• −40 °C — the tested temperature range. A January night in Mirabel sits inside it.
• 50,000+ hours of life, which is fifteen to twenty-three years of nightly use.
• Zero exposed wire. Wiring runs behind the fascia and soffit. That's a policy, not an aspiration.
• Aluminum rail, never plastic, painted from over 120 finishes to match the soffit. By day you don't notice it.
• 450 W controller on residential, mounted indoors — usually on a garage wall, out of the weather.

Pixels are individually replaceable. If one fails in ten years, we change that one, not the run.

Rules and neighbours in Laval, Blainville and the North Shore towns

North Shore municipalities don't regulate how much light you put on your own house. They regulate where it goes. The principle is the same across the region: your light stays on your lot.

Laval. Nuisance bylaw L-12084, article 2.17, prohibits using or allowing the use of any light or lighting device installed so that the beam is projected or directed off the lot where the light source sits, in a way liable to disturb traffic or the wellbeing of the neighbourhood. The city's Guide du bon voisinage adds the practical version: if you use a device that projects light, make sure it lights your own lot only and that the beams are aimed at the ground.

Blainville. Bylaw 1571 on peace, order and certain nuisances, article 73, prohibits turning on — or allowing to be turned on — a continuous or intermittent light liable to dazzle, confuse or distract drivers, or to disturb the privacy or quiet of the neighbourhood. Reflective devices are covered too.

Boisbriand. Quality-of-life bylaw RV-1355-2, article 6.9 ("Faisceau lumineux"), makes it a nuisance to have on a private lot, vacant or built, a light source causing a disturbance to any neighbouring property.

Sainte-Thérèse. Quality-of-life bylaw 1155-3 N.S. carries the same article 6.9 in the same words.

Saint-Eustache. Bylaw 1776 prohibits an owner, tenant or occupant from installing, allowing to be installed, or maintaining a lighting system that harms the safety, wellbeing or rest of one or more people in the neighbourhood.

Other North Shore towns have comparable nuisance bylaws. We were not able to verify the exact wording for Terrebonne, Mirabel, Repentigny, Mascouche and Rosemère — if you're in one of those and the question matters to you, the fast way to settle it is a call to the town's urbanisme department.

None of this rules out a permanent system. A rail mounted on the roof's leading edge throws down and forward, onto your own property. The thing these bylaws are aimed at is the floodlight pointed at the street or at the neighbour's yard, not a lit roofline.

Co-ownership. In a divided co-ownership the facade isn't yours alone. We ask for the syndicate's written approval before we book a date — it avoids installing something that has to come back off.

New build not yet handed over. In a new development in Blainville or Mirabel, check where your builder's warranty stands before anyone drills a new fascia. Waiting until handover is also a perfectly good answer.

Choosing a lighting installer in Quebec

What you can actually verify before signing.

The RBQ licence. In Quebec you can validate it for free in the Régie du bâtiment's licence-holder registry, by number or by company name. Ours is 5864-7108-01.

Insurance. Ask for it. A company working on rooflines carries it.

The warranty in writing. Not "lifetime". Durations, per component, and what labour covers separately.

Real photos of their own installs. Not stock, not a manufacturer's render.

A render of your house before you sign. If nobody can show you your own facade lit, you are buying a description.

Red flags: a price quoted over the phone without seeing the house; plastic channel presented as aluminum; visible wire in their own photos; a large deposit asked for the same day; a warranty announced as one number with no split between components and labour.

Colour and scenes for Laval and North Shore facades

New North Shore facades are grey, beige, white and brown — stone at ground level, fibre cement above. They take warm white well.

The default setting is 2700K to 3000K. Warm without going orange, and it respects the real colour of the stone. Real installs read closer to a neutral white than to a deep amber.

Save colour for occasions. A facade in colour three hundred and sixty-five days a year wears thin; the same facade in warm white all year, then red and green for two weeks in December, does not. That's also why a whole street can have the system without the street turning into a carnival.

Timing an install on the North Shore

Exterior, before the first snow. That isn't a hard rule, it's about working conditions: dry fascia and clear ground make for a faster, cleaner install.

Fall is the busiest stretch on the North Shore, for obvious reasons. If December is the target, the conversation happens before fall, not during it.

Interior — cove, stairs, kitchen — runs year-round. January and February are good months for it.

The warranty on your North Shore install, exactly

Two separate warranties: one on the product, one on labour.

Product.

• Controllers and pixels: 12 years.
• Light bars and landscape fixtures: 3 years.

Labour: 3 years, separately.

What that means in practice. Inside the first three years, if a covered part needs replacing, the service call is free. After three years the parts stay covered on the schedule above, but the visit is billed hourly at the rate in force at that time. No rate is fixed in advance, and nobody should be quoting you one today for a visit eight years from now.

Put plainly: this is not twelve years of free service calls. It is twelve years of coverage on controllers and pixels, and three years of labour.

What a Laval or North Shore project costs

We publish the whole-project tiers, because hiding prices doesn't help anyone.

• $3,000–$5,000 — a starter project.
• $5,000–$15,000 — a standard project.
• $20,000+ — a complete project: house, interior and landscape. On a project lit end to end, the bill often exceeds $50,000.

These are project tiers, not per-service or per-town prices. What moves a project inside a tier: roofline length, number of storeys, how many peaks and dormers, access, and how many zones you want to control separately. That is exactly what the on-site visit resolves — a number given without seeing the house is a guess.

Residential deposit is 30%, balance on completion. 0% financing is available on qualifying projects.

Getting started in Laval and on the North Shore

A free on-site visit, in Laval or anywhere on the North Shore. We look at the house, take the measurements, and come back with a render of your own facade and an itemized quote. We respond within 24 to 48 hours.

By phone: (450) 999-7258.

If you're in Laval, Blainville, Terrebonne, Mirabel, Boisbriand, Sainte-Thérèse, Rosemère, Lorraine, Bois-des-Filion, Saint-Eustache, Deux-Montagnes, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, Saint-Jérôme, Mascouche, Repentigny or Charlemagne, we come to you. Book your free on-site estimate and we'll start from your facade.