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Helpful Landscape Lighting Designs and Tips

Strategically placed lighting opens your eyes to the beauty of your home's exterior after the sun goes down, plus it makes your home safer. Before you choose light fixtures, you should design and create a lighting portrait.

Drive or walk around your neighborhood at night. Look at the many ways in which people light their property, until you find the look you like.

Ask yourself these questions: What is my focal point? What levels of light do I want to achieve? What overall effect am I trying to create?

A well-lit home should include fixtures that are hidden from sight. The focus of the lighting portrait should be the home. The source of the light should be difficult to find and provide as little glare as possible.

The focal point of a home is usually the entrance. A well-designed lighting system should "direct" you or your guests to your front door.

Use fewer lights and place them strategically to accent the home and to highlight the shrubs and trees. Spill lighting will usually illuminate the walkways.

When trees, shrubs and flowers are lighted, it brings out their color, form and texture.

Lighting a deck, porch, pool, yard or patio creates extra space for nighttime parties and entertaining.

Define the perimeter of your home with lights to complete the lighting portrait.

When the design of your property is complete, you can determine exactly where the lights should be placed and how many you need.

Use soft, subtle lighting and hide the light source.

Never place a fixture below a windowpane. It's a good idea to check to see if any lights will shine into a bedroom window.

Determine the size of the transformer by calculating the number of lights, times their wattage, plus adding voltage drop (loss of power resulting from the distance of the lamp from the power source).

Now you're ready to install the transformer, stake or bury the light fixtures in place, and wire the lights to the main wire coming from the transformer.

Bury the wire lines 4-6 inches deep.

Using a voltmeter, test the number of volts at each fixture. Each lamp should read between 10.8 to 12 volts in order to power a 20 to 50 watt lamp.

When the lights are too dim, some people believe the bulb doesn't have enough watts. In reality, it's not receiving enough volts at the lamp. Raise the tap number at the transformer until the volts at the lamp are in range.

The transformer is plugged into your electrical outlet and transforms your 110/120 volts to 12 volts.

A timer or photocell can be installed to run the transformer.

Maintenance Plan

Let's face it - it you haven't taken advantage of our full service maintenance plan - your lights probably need a little attention. Whether we installed your lights or not - we're happy to get you on a maintenance plan to keep your lights performing and looking good. What we do:

Clean all lens
Clean and remove debris from fixtures
Tighten loose components
Clear plant material covering fixtures
Check transformers
Reset timers
Re-bury exposed wires
Replace burnt out bulbs
Reposition projections

Material replacement not included

We service the entire state of Texas

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