Monongalia County, WV
Permanent lighting in Morgantown: gold and blue on Saturday, warm white the rest of the week
A permanent RGBWW roofline in Morgantown can run WVU gold and blue on a football Saturday and a 2700K warm white every other night, all from a phone. We are about 110 miles up the road in Kittanning, and we schedule Monongalia County in batches. Here is what that means for you.
Where Morgantown sits on our map
Kittanning to Morgantown is about 110 miles, most of it on I-79 south past Washington and across the state line. Call it two hours and five minutes with a trailer. That puts Monongalia County outside our daily route, which covers every 16xxx ZIP in Pennsylvania, and inside the regional footprint we cover in batches.
Batching is the only way to do this well. We stack several Morgantown-area consults and installs into one trip so the crew stays down there for a few days instead of driving four hours round trip for one house. The tradeoff is lead time. The upside is that when we come, we come with a full trailer and finish.
Thraxel is three brothers from Kittanning, no franchise and no call center, and Tyson runs every quote personally. The Morgantown city page at thraxel.com/areas/morgantown/ lists what we install there and how the schedule usually falls.
What the system does on a Morgantown house
The roofline gets a color-matched aluminum track tucked against the fascia. Inside it are RGBWW pixels, which means red, green and blue diodes plus a separate 2700K warm-white diode. That extra diode is the difference between a true warm white and the slightly purple white that RGB-only strips produce when they try to fake it.
Every pixel has its own address. That is what lets the roofline chase, fade, split into zones over the garage and the porch, or hold a single steady color. It is also what lets us find a single failed pixel from the controller data and swap it, usually the same day we are on site.
By day, the track reads as trim. Morgantown has plenty of newer subdivisions with covenants, and the system has cleared every HOA we have put it in front of. Cheat Lake homes with a water view get the same track and the same app, plus dock and patio zones if you want them.
Game day, without the logo
The scene most Morgantown customers ask about first is the one for Saturdays. Gold and blue is two colors on a 16-million-color system, and it takes one tap in the Thraxel Lighting app. We do not do logos or lettering on a roofline, and we will not pretend to. We do color, and color is what the street sees from a block away.
The same house runs black and gold for the Steelers on Sunday, orange and purple for Halloween, red and green through the holidays, and Everyday Warm the rest of the year. Team color scenes are covered in more detail at thraxel.com/blog/penguins-pirates-and-team-color-scenes/.
Hills, wind and Monongahela winters
Morgantown weather is a lot like ours: wet snow, freezing rain, wind funneling up the river valley, and a spring that cannot make up its mind. The pixels sit in IP67 marine-grade silicone on 16-gauge wire, and the housing is salt-tested. None of that is marketing language. It is why the system can stay on a north-facing fascia through February without a service call.
Power draw is small. A typical 168-LED install running six hours a night uses about $52.80 in electricity per year, because each pixel pulls roughly 0.3 watts. You will not see it on the utility bill.
Cost and financing, stated honestly
We do not publish Thraxel pricing because every roofline is a different length and every house has different peaks and returns. National industry estimates commonly fall between roughly $20 and $50 per linear foot installed for permanent systems, and your property will differ, which is why the quote is free.
Qualifying buyers can finance at 0% APR for up to 24 months through our financing partner. Parts are warrantied for 3 years and labor for 1 year. Component certifications are UL, ETL and CUL, and our crews hold the install certifications the manufacturer requires. The full spec sheet is on thraxel.com/permanent/.
How a batched Morgantown install runs
First contact is a text or call to Tyson at 724-859-4390 or the form at thraxel.com/quote/. He will tell you when the next Monongalia County trip is and whether the consult can happen on it. At the consult we set the demo case on your driveway, four live RGBWW strips you control from the app, and measure the roofline.
Within 48 hours you get a render of your actual house, not a template. Most homes install in one to two days on the following trip. We finish with a walkthrough, hand you the app, and leave. From then on the only thing you touch is your phone.
- Consult and demo case on a scheduled Morgantown run
- Render mock-up returned within 48 hours
- Install in 1 to 2 days, app control the same evening
- 3-year parts, 1-year labor warranty
