Top 3 Landscape Lighting Options

Landscape Lighting is an intrinsic part of any garden and yard design project. In fact, if you want to enjoy the outdoor spaces on your property, after dark, it’s important that you have the right type of lighting on your property. This lighting also adds to the security quotient of your property as it acts as a deterrent to unsavory elements such as burglars, thieves as well as trespassers.

Torres Maintenance handles all types of outdoor lighting requirements for customers in and around Incline Village, Lake Tahoe, Reno, and Carson City, NV.

Outdoor Lighting

The exterior lighting on your property can include a number of fixtures and fittings. The company that handles the job for you will ascertain where lighting is required on your property; they will take factors such as layout, position, level of illumination and the type of effect required and will then install:

• Pathway & driveway lamps
• Lighting for garden steps
• Garden lamp posts
• Lighting for columns/beams
• Lighting various decorative features
• Outdoor kitchen lighting
• Paver lights
• Recessed lights in retaining walls
• Underwater lighting for ponds, waterfalls & fountains
• Floodlights
• Exterior building lights

In most instances, the landscape lighting specialists will also train lights on features such as beautifully structured trees or any other features you particularly like on your property. This adds to the beauty and uniqueness of your landscape.

Outdoor LED Lighting

When you have a lot of lighting elements added to your landscaping, the one aspect that has to be kept in view is that all these fixtures also guzzle a large amount of energy, which will lead to high power bills. The one way to have your cake and eat it too, is to opt for outdoor LED lighting. LED bulbs are 80% more efficient than standard incandescent or CFL ones; they throw a very cool light and are available in a variety of colors and shades.

This allows you to create the kind of effect you want, on your property. You have to pay  a higher upfront cost for LED bulbs but they last for years and provide value in the long term. Apart from that, the installations become low maintenance too, as you don’t have to worry about replacing these bulbs every now and then.

Low Voltage Lighting

As mentioned earlier, when you have a number of light fixtures in the outdoor spaces of your property, it tends to add to your energy bills.  However, current-day landscape designers are highly focused on providing energy-efficient solutions to their clients. Low voltage lighting is an excellent solution and this comes in the form of LED bulbs and battens. These are perfect for indoor and outdoor installations and can be used across the landscaping, in various fixtures and fittings.

Low voltage lighting that has been efficiently installed by companies like Torres Maintenance, can last for at least 15 years, which makes it cost-effective and low maintenance. The other advantage is that they are connected to different transformers and so there isn’t any electrocution risk. In case you have to change these bulbs, you can easily do so without actually switching off your power supply.

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