Is there anything more aesthetically pleasing to look at than round grey PVC or metal conduit? I live in a Florida hurricane proof block house that is impossible for me to penetrate the exterior walls to add 110v outlets. The builder proved practically none for landscape lighting or holiday lights. I could live with flat conduit painted the house color, but not round. TIA
Fairly simple idea: a can that gets buried in the ground, the can has a hole in the bottom for drainage, another in the bottom/side for low-voltage wiring to enter/exit, and a sacrificial lid with a a frangible zone around the thick central mounting ring designed to bend, deform, or break before the light is damaged. Swapping in a new lid is as easy as removing the screws, mounting the light to a new lid, and screwing the new lid back down. All the wires stay safely buried and there's nothing to dig up. There's also the anti-mower version with a raised edge (we'll see if that works).
It seemed like no matter what I did, the landscape path/driveway lights kept getting clipped by the yardman or a vehicle. I even tried moving them farther from the edge of the driveway, but then people just started driving on the grass thinking the driveway was wider than it is.
Before, the lights were installed with those stakes that you hammer down and screw the light into. The wire had to be buried right up to the stake and then the light screwed in, twisting up the wire and messing up the insulation. If a light got hit, that inevitably pried the wire up out of the ground and, if it didn't also tear the wire, either broke or damaged the stake.
Now, if a light gets hit, the lid just bends or breaks at the weak point. No wires get pried up because there's excess in the can. The lid takes the damage instead of the light, and replacing a lid takes 5 minutes without having dig up and rebury any wires.
Just received an estimate (I’m in Northern Ireland for reference) and always found Reddit great for genuine advice.
Is £7.5k + vat acceptable for the following?
All of this is being done while garden landscaping/walls being done for the first time.
x2 Ground uplighters at garden room wall
Removal of PIR flood light above door
x2 power sockets to patio sitting area
X12 LED retaining wall lights (about 50m of wall)
x3 spike lights at front 1 at tree, 2 at rockery
Manhole and duct by landscape company
x6 spike lights to rear flower beds
Smart wifi controlled switch
Armoured cable, wiska boxes, magic gel,
Consumer materials etc
Septic tank repositioning pump and alteration to
wiring. extend air feed piping MAX 10m
My neighbor decided to pull out his landscape lights from his backyard. Before he tossed the whole thing he asked me if I wanted them. My first inclination was to say no. I do want to put some lights on the side of the house but I've got a million other things to do and I figured new lights would be better but after thinking about it a second I grabbed them and figured I would ask here before giving up on the idea. I have an outlet on that side of the house so that's not an issue. My neighbor said he would take the transformer off his house if I decided I want to give it a shot. I've got six lights that have never been used, six that have. I don't care too much about the speaker aspect but if there was a way to do Bluetooth I wouldn't mind.
Is it worth the hassle or are the newer lights miles better than the old stuff? If it's worth it are there better newer connectors or transformers that I should use?
I’m no electrician, I’m a new landscaper.
I have a customer who inquired about getting an estimate to “fix” her current landscape lighting- she has lights all around her house that have been disconnected.
Do I just strip them and use those plastic connectors that are like caps that you twist to connect them all together?
It seems sorta straight-forward to just move clockwise around the house and connect everything but she says the bulbs need changed and power needs turned on to them-
I’ve never done any landscape lighting before.
Any advice or food for thought? I can try and upload pics later on today or tomorrow.
Any good suggestions or directions to any awesome “how-to” guides and videos online or on YouTube?
Id sincerely and appreciate all honest, earnest, knowledgeable advice and guidance and counsel?!
Hi all, I’m planning out my landscape lighting set up and wanted to get some thoughts on the placement for this tree. I was going to do a spotlight but the boxwood hedges are pretty high/there isn’t a way to place the spotlight further out because it ends up in the lawn.
I bought a 24” riser and 90 degree elbow to stake it in the boxwoods so it is kind of “emerging” from the bushes. I’m not sure it’s going to work, so I’m curious if there are other placement ideas from people who have more experience in lighting. Just asking before I punt and just light up the house accents instead.
I don’t want to reconfigure my yard or anything, working within the confines of the yard/beds.
Look for lighting options to hang in the tree or even put around the trees that would look nice preferably solar since I don’t have a plug in near the trees