Landscape Lighting
Light that goes in the same ground as the water
Exclusively LED. Pathways, accent lighting, architectural uplighting, deck and patio, water features and garden beds, wired underground and waterproofed.
Chapter 01
Where light actually goes in a yard
Pathway and walkway lighting so people can see the ground they are walking on. Accent lighting into trees and shrubs. Security and safety illumination where the yard is dark and should not be. Deck and patio lighting for the places you sit. Architectural uplighting on the parts of the house worth looking at. Spotlights on a water feature. Light in the garden beds.
Those are seven different jobs, and they want different fittings, different beam angles and different brightness. A yard lit with one fitting repeated twenty times reads as a runway. A yard lit properly has some things bright and most things dark, which is what makes the bright parts worth looking at.
Twilight home with uplighting on the brickwork, lit pathway and lighting in the trees
Exclusively LED
We install LED and only LED. Running cost is a fraction of the halogen systems these replaced, and the lamps last long enough that a system installed properly is not a maintenance liability.
It also matters underground: LED runs cool and draws little current, which keeps the wiring smaller and the connections less stressed over a long buried run.
Chapter 03
The install is wiring, not stakes
The difference between a lighting system that lasts and one that fails in its second winter is almost entirely underground. Wiring gets trenched and buried rather than laid under mulch, and every connection is waterproofed.
Buried cable in a yard with irrigation shares its ground with water on a schedule. That is not a hypothetical, it is the condition the system lives in, and it is why we treat lighting connections the same way we treat valve work.
Usually a second visit, not a first
Most of our lighting customers came to us for sprinklers first. One found us at the Huntsville home show, had the irrigation work done, then came back for landscape lighting, which is the usual order.
There is a practical reason for it. Once we know where the irrigation lines and valve boxes are, we can put a lighting trench in without cutting through them.
B & C Irrigation — Fully licensed and insured. Call (256) 286-4108.