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Walk & Quick Fix or Service Visit: What Happens When a Light Goes Out A light goes out. Maybe it’s one path light, maybe a whole side of the garden. The question most homeowners have isn’t whether it can be fixed. It’s how much of a production fixing it will be.   For most repairs, […]

After the Install: The Part of Landscape Lighting We Actually Want to Do Most of the attention in landscape lighting goes to the install. The design, the reveal, the first night the property comes alive. It’s the exciting part, and it should be. But a lighting system lives outdoors for years. Sprinklers run, roots grow,

What Happens During a Landscape Lighting System Evaluation Landscape lighting rarely fails all at once. It drifts.   A path light goes dark and nobody gets around to it. A tree grows past the fixture meant to light it. Along the coast, salt air works into a connection that was solid for years. Inland, sprinklers

Landscape Lighting Maintenance: What Changes Over Time Nobody calls because their outdoor lighting stopped working.   They call because one evening they walked outside, looked at the garden, and something felt off — and they couldn’t say what. The system is on. Every fixture is lit. Nothing is broken. It just doesn’t look the way

Outdoor Lighting for Fall & Winter Evenings | San Diego     Daylight saving ends November 1 and San Diego sunset drops to just before five. What warm, layered landscape lighting does to the five months that follow. Right now the sun sets a little after six. On November 1, daylight saving ends and it

Permanent Holiday Lighting San Diego | What to Know Before Buying A permanent holiday lighting system is a track of individually addressable LED points, color-matched to your fascia and installed tight against it, that stays on the house year-round. You control it from your phone. Warm white most of the year if you want it,

The Difference Between a Lit Yard and an Inviting One Most homeowners have had this moment without naming it. You step outside after dark, the lights are on, everything is visible — and you go back in.   Nothing was wrong. The yard was lit. It just wasn’t somewhere you wanted to be.   That

Permanent Roofline Lighting:The Last Time You’ll Climb a Ladder What it is, why homeowners love it, and how it quietly gives your home a personality all year long. First, what is it? If you’ve heard the term “permanent roofline” and weren’t entirely sure what it meant, you’re in good company. It goes by a handful

Outdoor lighting: is it expensive to operate? Quick answer: it depends, but usually it’s very economical. There are a lot of variables in this equation. The number of outdoor lights installed on your property, the types of bulbs in each fixture, the amount of time the lights are on each night, and the cost of

What is a transformer? An outdoor lighting transformer is the electrical device that converts the electricity coming from your household outlets – which is roughly 120 volts – to the 12 volts used by virtually all modern LED landscape lighting fixtures, as well as the less-efficient (and mostly antiquated) 12 volt halogen bulbs that were