The benefits of LED Landscape Lighting

Maybe some of you out there are familiar with LED (light emitting diode) lighting as a light source, and maybe some of you aren’t. It certainly has made it’s way into the big box stores by way of outdoor holiday lighting for several years now, but more recently within the last 20 months into our line of work , landscape lighting.

I at first was a sceptic, thinking there is no way LED lighting is going to be able to do what we can do with halogen, but I was wrong.

LED lighting now compomises 85% of the lighting we installed this year. This is mainly due to the benefits I am about to go over.

1. It is extremely energy efficeint. (Yes it is considered green) With most fixtures in the landscape consuming between 5 and 9 watts per fixture, that’s it! Some even less!
2. They have an extremely long life on the light source. Most are rated at 40,000 hours, which translates to about 20 years if the system is operated 6 hours per night. It translates to about 10 years if you operate the system from dusk until dawn.
3. The LED light source is the right color of light, meaning that it is not blueish in color. Believe me when I tell you it looks exactly like halogen. For the technicians out there, this is around 2800 K.
4. The LED’s are maintenance free, for the most part. Since the manufacturer warranties the LED light source for 15 years, you can pretty much operate the system from dusk to dawn for that time period and not worry about burning the light source out. Really the only maintenance that needs to be done is the occasional cleaning of the lense cover one or two times a year.
5. No bulbs to change, ever!!!!! If the fixture goes out, it is covered under the manufacturers’ warranty. We simply replace the whole fixture, and your done.

5 Reasons Why Winter is the Time to Think About Lighting

5 reasons why Winter is the best time of the year to think about landscape lighting.

1. Post Christmas light withdraw (PCLW). You know the feeling. Your home is all illuminated with holiday lights for the past month and then pow!, no more lights! When you come home after dark, you look at your home and say, “wow, it’s really dark!” We have the solution for that.
2. This goes hand in hand with number 1. It’s just plain dark outside this time of the year. You leave for work in the morning, and its dark. You come home in the evening from work, and its dark. We have a solution for that. All of our lighting is controlled automatically, so when you come home, its not dark!
3. Aggressive pricing structure. In January, the manufacturers’ usually have a price increase towards the end of the month. this allows us to provide you with the best possable price so you can get the lighting you want and need.
4. A quicker installation time frame. We install a number of lighting systems over the Winter months because the savvy consumer knows that we can install their system much quicker this time of year compared to March or April when or install time frames are much longer.
5. Winter is the prettiest time of the year for lighting. I tell our clients this every year, and they think I’m crazy. I see them next Spring, and they say, “you were right, Winter lighting is beautiful.” Go to the lighting gallery and see for yourself, there are some winter photos there.