THE LONG DAYLIGHT HOURS OF SUMMERTIME ARE IN FULL FORCE, BUT THE LONGEST DAY OF 2019 IS JUST BEHIND US. DAYS WILL BECOME SHORTER AS SUMMER PASSES. FOR MANY CHARLOTTEANS THAT HAVE NO OUTDOOR LIGHTING, OR THOSE THAT ARE OPERATING ON AGING, OUTDATED OR FAILING SYSTEMS, THIS COULD MEAN YOU RETURN HOME EVERY NIGHT TO A DARK HOME.
As the night’s darkness continues to slowly sneak up, Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Charlotte encourages you to turn your attention to your outdoor lighting system, or lack thereof, and take notice if it is in need of any maintenance or service.
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We pride ourselves on not only designing and installing custom lighting systems, but also providing ongoing maintenance to keep that system performing at peak level. With the dark months slowly creeping upon us, now is the perfect time for a lighting system-tune up. Here are a few things we encourage homeowners with landscape and architectural lighting to look for:
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DIMMING OR UNEVEN ILLUMINATION
It’s natural for light bulbs to dim over time, but your system overall should always have an even wash of light that effectively illuminates the property. If you’ve noticed it dimming, or uneven illumination there are bulbs out or the light is no longer cohesive across all sections and it may be time to have your bulbs updated.
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Depending on the age of your outdoor lighting, you may have halogen lights that will dim more quickly. We now recommend converting your halogen system to LED added energy-efficiency and performance. The typically LED light lasts up to 50,000 hours. An LED outdoor lighting upgrade or conversion is much easier than you may think. In the hands our highly skilled technicians, you can be getting more longevity and cutting energy costs in no time, and if you want to make additions to your system, we may even be able to add more fixtures to your current transformer than you thought. Since LEDs use less wattage, more lights can be added than if they were halogen.
LIGHTS AND LENS COVERS
The Queen City is revered for its abundance of beautiful trees, however this time of year means those trees are losing their leaves. We recommend any up lights have lens covers to keep those leaves away from the bulb for safety purposes. Our high-quality outdoor lighting fixtures will help eliminate the maintenance and clearing of leaves and landscaping debris!
WIRING
We carefully bury all the lighting wiring when we install a new system, but with normal erosion, wiring can become exposed from time to time. This can also occur from normal day-to-day and seasonal activities, such as fall landscaping or raking/blowing fall leaves. If you walk your property and see any wire, make sure to call us to inspect your outdoor lighting system and rebury any wire that has become exposed. Every new system we install includes a one year free Annual Maintenance and Repair Plan contract. After that, you can purchase an additional year for a reasonable fee. This includes most everything you will to keep your system in perfect working order.
It’s well worth having a maintenance plan for your peace of mind and for the longevity of your system. We will even offer the same plan on our competitor’s plans, too! So if they don’t offer you a protection plan, we will be happy to safeguard your investment and make sure it’s in great shape year after year. If you are coming home to a dark house every night, now may also be the best time to consider the addition of outdoor lighting to your property.
Allow Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Charlotte to enhance your home and property with a custom outdoor lighting design. Call us today!
