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Installing Exterior Lighting
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" Although our project here began really just as an expansion and remodel of the downstairs basement space of this little house. It soon expanded to include all sorts of areas that either needed repair. Or offered opportunities for improvement so I'm standing at the front of the house where we did some serious hardscape and landscape improvements. Putting in a retainer wall to create a sense of separation from the sidewalk in the street. Putting in all sorts of beautiful shrubs and bushes and then around the sides in the back of the house a beautiful white cedar fence including a potting shed and storage areas so that the tiny backyard in the house could be further developed. Where in fact we've put in a beautiful area of pea stone and another area of newgrass something the little kids won't be able to destroy very easily. And now everything is complete including the outdoor lighting. "
" What you do you start with the -- source. Kimonos in this case and twenty watt -- right. Hasn't 10000 hour lamp life similar to an Alley daylight -- at -- a long time. But more user friendly than -- halogen because if you touch this particular bulb with your fingers it won't -- as as a halogen will because the oils when you. And if your fingers they'll then touch them. The light source and cause problems. From there you go to the stem and the fixture which is a solid brass fixture made by Phoenix there's a lifetime warranty so you guarantee doesn't last forever in any condition. From there if you've got a great wire leads from the point five foot wire lead pre done to minimize -- on the commission which is your biggest breaking point in the lighting system. With that in the end of that fell wire lead to take a twelve to wire in this case and read to you -- source would spend your hub. So in this case this installation as far as chancellor -- does mean is an 820 -- transamerican for me next. Is twenty like there's -- his property every fixture in this case is -- while -- self we've more then it. We have more than enough transfer power to do this property what you should do because they -- front yard a backyard and a side Daryn as you could designate to different sections and different -- missed you may want the front yard to stay on maybe till 12 o'clock tonight. -- perhaps the backyard only goes on a switch so that now you have options the side you're depending on the usage. Which could then have it be on with a switch our had to be on a photo -- timers such as the front for a sawn means that when it turns dark. It turns on. A timer could turn off whatever term we've created for his cause it's bill. So what we've learned as far as insulation doesn't matter what the size of the project is whether it's a ten light job or 200 light project. That you have to we ought to go in order to make things work very consistently so as you dig your trenches and you lay your lights out. That you want to do is we pull your wire leads but our main lines of the transfer to our our our satellites 34 or five lights whatever said it is it's a wonderful all the way to the end. Clearly it's all laid back that way as far as. Is concerned with feel -- a lighting company and being consistent and having all employees working at once is as you start DNA and you finish. You can work your way back and everyone works the way back together so as you're wiring the lights. Put in the wire leads on it. I mean -- you start back filling -- your lights and you'll all finish together right back to the transparent and you then power up the lights and then you're done so in that sense everything done perfectly together."