Houston Lighting Repairs and Lighting Maintanence

With April, we feel the first real feeling of spring, and we start planning ahead for the summer to come.

While making your plans, don’t forget your landscape lighting equipment and the investment you made in the past on making your home look spectacular.  Outdoor lighting maintenance is not something you wait to do until after the fact.  A proactive approach to maintaining your equipment is far more than getting replacements when replacements are needed.

Real lighting maintenance is design, testing, analysis, and professional consultation.

Lighting maintenance also involves a full system analysis to target areas of savings on new energy efficient fixtures.  Every component of your outdoor garden lighting system relates to something else in the array, or points to a key feature of your landscape.  If one part of your system fails, the whole system fails aesthetically.

Lighting levels are important because they help build the various layers of light that characterize professional landscape design.  Everything from garden lights, path lights, tree lights, and house lights must be operating at the appropriate output for the entire configuration to look pleasing to the eye.

Security lights must be bright and responsive to timers or motion sensor controls.  Since your safety depends on these, we really must ensure that they are in top working order.

Lighting maintenance indoors also requires routine equipment checks to make sure fixtures are performing according to manufacturer’s specifications.  This is because long before a fixture actually burns out, its lumens output may begin to deteriorate.  In some cases, certain fixtures maintain their lumens output, but their ability to render color significantly degrades.

This is especially true for older equipment.  You will probably not notice this deterioration in performance because it takes several years to occur.  The eye will adjust to the quality of the light as it degrades, and you will not even consciously notice this.

Trained residential electrical professionals can help you with these concerns by testing your fixtures with special equipment.  If problems are found, options for replacement can be recommended accordingly.

If your original landscape lighting design needs an upgrade, we can use advanced software to recommend new equipment and new layers of light to accentuate your home and yard.  This new equipment is now so energy efficient that the savings it offers you brings you an ROI that accrues over time and pays for itself.

Many new fluorescent and LED replacements work even better than your current fixtures, so it’s a win-win for savings and design when you upgrade.

Lighting maintenance involves a detailed outdoor lighting contractor who checks to make sure power connections are still viable, safe, and operable.  This means more than simply checking the wires on your outside lights.  Everything ultimately is tied to your home service panel.  It is a good practice to have this hub of power checked periodically to ensure safe and optimal functionality.

Also, since so many landscape lights operate on buried transformers, it is also wise to have these inspected to make sure they are performing up to spec and have not sustained any damage from water or accidental impacts that may have occurred if your digging in your yard.

Wires and connections for low voltage landscape lighting systems need to be checked to make sure they are not frayed or chewed.  Fixtures should also be cleaned of any debris, and connections to wires double checked.

ILD offers many different landscape lighting maintenance programs.  With the cold of a cold winter and cold March finally behind us, think of your landscape lights as well as the sunlight when you plan your budget for this next year.  Contact Illuminations Lighting Design today, and start saving money now.

In Texas, there is only one name for a professional, functional and artistic lighting company: Illuminations Lighting Design.