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It’s almost that time of the year again when the clocks change for Daylight Saving Time. While making adjustments to clocks in your home and car, you’ll also want to remember to adjust the time and settings on your outdoor lights to accommodate this fall back — including the shorter days it brings with it.
Here are a few helpful tips to take in consideration when servicing your landscape lighting system.
Is your home sprinkler system ready for winter? Watch Corey Rosso of Green Impressions explain how to properly winterize your irrigation system.
Like many projects, homeowners assume they should wait until spring to install professional landscape lighting. Many people think that they will not be able to enjoy the lights because its cold, and they are not spending time outdoors. However, with daylight savings time coming upon us; now is the perfect time to invest in landscape lighting. You'll be provided with a sense of security knowing that your house is well lit in dark times, plus it adds a beautiful accent to your home.
Landscape lighting expands your hours of enjoyment and the security of your outdoors. Low voltage systems provided better versatility in lighting, as compared to 120 volt systems and solar lights. If you have decided to install a low voltage system, you will need to choose whether you want to install incandescent fixtures or LED fixtures. While LED bulbs are available to retro fit most low voltage fixtures, the real value in LED comes with the installation of the system. If you have ever looked into replacing light bulbs inside your home with LED bulbs you'll find it's more expensive they are and difficult to justify the cost. The same is true for existing landscape lighting systems. However, on new installs it's easier to justify some of the cost because it decreases the cost in other areas for a quicker return-on-investment. Here are some of the advantages and disadvantages of installing LED fixtures as compared to incandescent fixtures.
There are many advantages of landscape lighting. Landscape and home beautification, usability, safety, security, and value are some of the reasons. However there are many different options of what type of landscape lighting to use to spice up your home. This post will focus on what type of landscape lighting to use and why. Landscape lighting enhances your home, and therefore adds great value to home.
Keeping up with your home's exterior and landscape can require a substantial investment year-after-year. This includes purchasing trees, shrubs, and flowers which add texture and color to increase your homes curb appeal. Adding hardscapes, from patios to natural stone work. Mulching almost every year to freshen your landscape beds and add definition. Edging your landscape beds, driveways and sidewalks to keep the grass from over-growing. Spending countless hours picking weeds and raking up leaves. You may have even spent the money to have an irrigation system installed and continue to invest in maintaining your lawn to keep the grass green and healthy during our hot dry summers. However, properly illuminating our homes exterior is often overlooked. Have you considered adding landscape lighting to extended your hours enjoying your outdoor living space?
The summer of 2012 brought us extreme heat and drought throughout. As we head into fall; I am already missing the beautiful summer nights that we experienced this year, as well as seeing my home irrigation system running practically every morning. However, we will all enjoy watching our water bill returning back to normal prices.