Slim LED Channel Profile | 7mm and Compact Aluminium, 1m to 3m

Narrow enough to disappear

These are the slimmest profiles in the range, from 7mm up. They take narrow tape and set it into a groove or against a tight edge, leaving a line of light barely wider than a pencil.

Use them where the lighting should not read as lighting at all: a shadow gap under a floating shelf, a routed reveal in joinery, the underside of a handrail, the side of a stair stringer.

Check the tape fits before ordering

A 7mm profile needs narrow tape. Standard 10mm and 12mm boards will not go in, and forcing one defeats the heat transfer the aluminium is there to provide. Measure the board width and match it to the internal dimension.

Where slim is right

• Shadow gaps between a wall and a floating shelf or cabinet.
• Joinery reveals routed into a panel or a door frame.
• Handrails with a groove cut along the underside.
• Stair stringers, lighting the treads from the side.
• Furniture where the profile has to vanish completely.

Where it is not

Slim tape carries fewer LEDs and less output than a wider board. For a cove that has to light a whole ceiling, or an under-cabinet run that has to light a worktop, use a wider profile and brighter tape. These are for the detail, not the workload.

Cutting a groove for a recessed slim profile

Route slightly deeper than the profile so it sits just below the surface. Test on an offcut of the same material first — in hardwood or MDF there is no second chance at a groove a millimetre too wide.

Compact surface versions

Some profiles in this group mount on the surface rather than recessed, which suits retrofitting into existing joinery where routing is not an option. They still read as a thin line once the diffuser is on.

Related

For standard widths see our surface mount channels. For high output runs, see the wide profiles.