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Saturday, October 17, 2009

Houston Holiday Lighting Company

Do you have Holiday parties coming up in the near future? Do you need repair work?
It is so important to revitalize and upgrade your house lights and your landscape lights. Both are major factors in the success of upcoming Holiday Events. ILD is here to help you make efficient and cost effective repairs and upgrades to your home lighting systems. We want your outdoor holiday lights to shine bright this year, and every year to come.

Maintaining Your Lighting Systems

When you are busy getting ready for parties and visitors, you often forget about the basics of indoor lighting maintenance. Much of this is all due to social conditioning. We have been programmed to see lights as either working or broken, and we never think about replacing anything until it breaks.

This is not the way lights work. The luminance quality of light fixtures starts degrading long before the fixtures themselves burn out. This is particularly the way it works with art lighting fixtures, although this also occurs with a great deal of decorative lights and outdoor garden lights.

To make certain that all of your fixtures are performing at recommended manufacturer standards, ILD will come to your home and thoroughly inspect your equipment for optimal light output. If we find a problem, we will either replace the unit or recommend an upgrade.

Troubleshooting and Repairs

If you have noticed that something appears not to be quite right with your lights, but do not know exactly what could be causing this, it is very essential that you contact Tammy at ILD and schedule a visit from our experts so that they can take a look at your lighting array. Both indoor and landscape light systems operate on the principle of building layers of lights in patterns and degrees of intensity.

When lamps begin to deteriorate in quality, the effectiveness of the entire system begins to suffer. Please save yourself the time and trouble of trying to isolate the problem. It could be something as simple as a loose wire, or something as serious and possibly unsafe like a short circuit. It is much more safe and sensible to hire an electrical contractor to do this, and to arrange for replacement parts with commercial, specification grade features that ensure superior operability and longer lamp life.

Outdoor Holiday Light Systems
If you are planning more than just a Thanksgiving dinner inside, you can also enjoy an evening outdoors. If you have invested in an outdoor kitchen or living room, you might even have some creature comforts in addition to a night under the stars.

Regardless, spicing up the yard with outdoor holiday lights is an excellent way to usher in the Christmas Season. If you have invested in a landscape lighting system from ILD, a few additions can make your Christmas Party a place where everyone wants to be this Holiday Season.

If you have not yet invested in new landscape lights, consider visiting with our outdoor lighting specialists. Our experts represent an eclectic blend of skills in electrical engineering, design, and multi-disciplinary cross-training in parallel industries that add value, unique distinction, and cost effective operability to holiday cheer and superior Houston living throughout the year.

As most of you have already realized, the 2009 Holiday Season is rapidly approaching us all. Many of us, in lieu of current economic considerations, already have made up our minds to consolidate our entertainment expenses by hosting parties at home. If you share this viewpoint, now is the time to consider a investing in lighting repair work.

Since 1980, ILD has grown to include a team of over 50 talented and dedicated employees. Specialty divisions have evolved that focus on disciplines like lighting design, electrical contracting services, landscape lighting maintenance and home automation. Having specialists in these disciplines, while remaining true to the mission of offering home owners the "big picture" of lighting design, is essential to continued success at Illuminations Lighting.

We invite you to contact us at 713-863-1133 or online using our handy resuest design consultation form.

We are located in Houston Texas but provide lighting and house lighting plans in Austin TX, El Paso Texas, San Antonio TX, College Station Texas, Beaumont TX, Dallas Texas, Midland Tx and points beyond.

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Houston Indoor Lighting Maintenance

Indoor residential lighting maintenance involves periodic quality checks to ensure against degradation of quality. All lamp bulbs have a lamp life, and many begin to diminish in color rendering capability and lumens output as they approach the end of their life span. For example, low-voltage Mr16 lights used in most residential lighting plans feature dichroic reflectors designed to draw infrared and heat backward. This creates a cool-burning light source that is ideal for fine art lighting. As these fixtures age, though, the dichroic reflectors degrade and shift color to red or green. You might not notice this yourself because this shift occurs gradually and incrementally. Your eyes will adjust to these increments and often fool you into thinking that the lights are operating normally. If lighting professionals check these lights under your residential lighting maintenance agreement, they can quickly spot the discrepancy and replace the fixtures under the cost-effective rate specified in your agreement.

Another optional service you can invoke under a residential lighting maintenance contract is upgrade services. There are probably fixtures in every room that can be upgraded from high-voltage lamps to low-voltage lamps. This will immediately result in lower electrical costs and less frequent replacements. Our professionals will also take the time to inspect previously installed low voltage lighting fixtures to make certain that they are working up to specification. Any adjustments that need to be made will be made during each lighting maintenance service visit, and any problems we discover will be itemized for your review. Our professionals have been trained to not only point out trouble spots, but also to recommend replacements and alternatives that will last longer, produce a higher quality of light, and cost less power to operate.

Home decorative lighting and recessed lighting fixtures are thoroughly inspected every time our team visits your home. Major fixtures such as chandeliers have a plethora of lamps in them that can and will individually burn out. Homeowners who relamp these fixtures often inadvertently purchase the wrong replacement bulbs. Every light fixture has a label that says you cannot exceed the wattage. However, this label often may be overlooked, misinterpreted, or the label on the replacement bulb may appear confusing to the consumer. Self-relamping with the wrong wattage, of course, is probably not going to hurt your fixture, but it will hurt the quality of your lighting. Our team will check all the lamps in each major fixture under your residential lighting maintenance plan, making sure in the process that each one is consistently lamp with no wattage variance. We also check to make sure that everything is working up to safe operating specifications and aesthetic expectations. Consistency is king when it comes to low voltage recessed lighting fixtures, because being the energy consumers they are, no additional problems should be allowed to abide unchecked that could cost the homeowner a great deal of money down the line if things get out of hand.

Read more about our maintenance agreements for residential indoor lighting design, outdoor landscape lighting, and Houston home repairs in our article database. Call 713-863-1133 to speak to a lighting professional about a service agreement customized specifically to your residence and lighting requirements.

Illuminations Lighting Design is a full service design build firm specializing in residential and commercial indoor lighting and outdoor lighting, electrical service and maintenance as well as home automation, home theaters, emergency generators, surge protection systems, phone systems and lighting control systems.

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