Landscape Lighting Installation
Good landscape lighting is mostly restraint. The eye reads contrast, so lighting a few things well beats lighting everything evenly.
What gets lit, and what does not
A mature tree uplit from the base, a stone face grazed from close in, a path marked just enough to walk safely. Leaving the spaces between them dark is what makes those things read at all. A garden with a light every two metres along the path looks like a runway and flattens everything.
Fixtures are aimed after dark, on site, with you there if you want to be. It is the only way to judge it.
Low voltage, and why it suits a garden
Low-voltage systems run from a transformer rather than at line voltage, so the cable in the garden is far more forgiving of a spade than a mains circuit would be. Fixtures can be moved, added to, or re-aimed as planting grows in, which it will.
Systems that are already in the ground
Adding to an existing system is usually possible, if the transformer has capacity for it and the cable is sound. Both get checked first, because hanging more fixtures on an already loaded run makes every light on that run dimmer. Where a system has stopped working rather than run out of room, that is a different visit: outdoor lighting repair.
On the shoreline end of the service area, where many properties sit empty midweek, the job has its own shape: that is landscape lighting in Collingwood.
Landscape lighting, asked and answered
Can lighting be added to what I already have?
Often yes, if the transformer has capacity for it and the existing cable is sound. That gets checked first, because adding fixtures to an already overloaded run makes every light on it dimmer.
Does it run all night?
That is up to you. Most systems run on a timer or a photocell, and the schedule can be set to whatever suits the property.
Will the cable survive gardening?
Low-voltage cable is buried and is much safer than mains if it is ever cut, but it can still be damaged. It is worth knowing roughly where the runs go before any digging.
My existing lights have stopped working. Is that this page?
That is a repair rather than an install, and it has its own page: dead fixtures, cut cable, failed transformers and timers that stopped switching are all findable and usually fixable without replacing the system.