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T.D. Irrigation & Landscape Lighting
3892 NW 73 terace
Coral Springs 33065
ph: (954) 757-5770
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Landscape Lighting Tips
Low voltage systems are safe, economical, and energy efficient with performance comparable to a 120 volt system. Fixtures can easily be moved to accommodate plant growth. There is no risk of shock to children or pets if a cable becomes cut. NOTE: A 120 volt system should only be installed by a licensed electrician.
Why Light?
The architectue of your home and the surrounding landscape can be admired and enjoyed by all. At night, however, your home and landscape fade into the darkness. You have made a substantial investment in your home and landscaping A professional understands exacty what fixtures,lamps and transformers to specify, exclusively low-voltage or in combination with line voltage products. A professional is creative, a visionary and an installation expert. A professional is adaptable and will build expandability into the original design, knowing you will want to modify or expand your landscape lighting in the years to come. There is no greater return on your investment in your home or business than the artful application of light. This will help you decide what type of fixtures you’ll need, how many fixtures, and where you’ll need to install them.
A. Safety. Perhaps you have a walkway or path where obstacles such as small shrubbery, rocks, steps, or low lying tree branches could be a hazard. You may want to illuminate this area to make it easier for your family and visitors to safely go from point A to point B. This type of job may require pathlights along a walkway, or step lights near railings and steps.
B. Security. lt is a proven fact that a well-lit landscape deter prtential intruders by eliminating dark areas and shadows that would conceal movement around the property. If the goal is for security to discourage potential burglars, you may want bullet style fixtures for downlighting near windows or other areas of entry around your home.
C. Aesthetics. Showcasing an attractive aspect of your landscape or lighting up a patio, gazebo, or pool area not only looks beautiful and increases your available hours of enjoyment, which brings the home and the landscape together to create a resort-like feel.
D. Valve. From a personally pleasing perspective, landscape lighting not only brings the property to life, it brings life to your property. From a practical perspective, professionally installed landscape lighting provides an excellent return on investment, because it creates a marvelous first impression when viewed by family and friends or possible prospective buyers
Lighting Techniques
Decide what you want to light, and how you want it to look. There are several different techniques to use that will achieve any look you desire.
Uplighting
| Downlighting/Moonlighting This technique is achieved by mounting a bullet fixture onto a structure or in a tree to cast light downward. |
| Backlighting/Silhouette Lighting This technique is a special effect that lights a background, such as a wall, using wash light fixtures between the wall and an object. This causes the object in front of the lighting to appear as a dark shape or a “silhouette”. |
| Shadowing This technique is a special effect that uses a bullet or a well light/inground fixture in front of an object to cast a shadow of the object onto a wall or structure. |
| Path/Spread Lighting This technique uses taller path or spread light fixtures to create pools of light along a walkway or in planter beds. |
Fixtures.
Fixtures come in a variety of shapes (to hold the required lamp) and finishes such as black, bronze cooper, verde green is the list of some of the colors that is availabe to compliment any landscape style or theme.
| Bullets A highly functional fixture, easy to aim, commonly used in planter beds for uplighting objects, downlighting, shadowing, and backlighting. Bullets are ground mounted or surface mounted. |
| Well Lights/Ingrounds A “direct burial” or fixture in the ground, used when fixtures need to be placed in lawns for uplighting objects, wall washing, or backlighting. |
| Path/Spread Lights A fixture used along pathways or in garden beds to highlight annual color, good for safety lighting, pathlights are ground mounted. Fixture size should be in proportion to the surrounding plant material. Height of fixture determines beam spreads. |
| Wash Lights A fixture that allows very wide light spread, used for lighting walls or other surfaces, signs, shadowing, backlighting. Wall wash fixtures are ground mounted. |
T.D. Irrigation & Landscape Lighting
3892 NW 73 terace
Coral Springs 33065
ph: (954) 757-5770
Sales