Landscape Lighting Assessment & Design in the Fairfield Area
A landscape lighting assessment helps decide what needs light and what can stay. Discuss the paths, steps and seating areas you use after dark, any glare you want reduced, and the lighting already installed. Fixture placement, cable routes and transformer capacity guide the scope before a new installation or an upgrade.
Why walk it at dusk?
At dusk you see which path goes dark first, which light shines into a window or over the fence, and which tree is worth lighting. We look in daylight too, for where cable can run and where the transformer can mount by an outdoor outlet. Bring everyone who has a say in the yard.
…we always like to communicate to both spouses before starting a project!
Drag toward dusk.
What does a lighting assessment give you?
One sheet that follows the job: what the dusk walk found, the plan, and what was aimed after the install. Switch the layers on this sample back yard.
- F1 · TTransformer: the old halogen lamps draw more than it’s rated for.
- F2 · Stepping stonesDark, on the one route people walk at night.
- F3 · E4, E5Both tree uplights out: the connector at the splice has corroded.
- F4 · E6A fence spotlight shining into the next yard.
- F5 · E9Last bed light dimmer than the first: too long a run on one cable.
- F6 · TTimer on at 7 pm all year: before dark in June, long after it in December.
- P1–P4Four path lights along the stepping stones, staggered about 6 ft apart. The three on the patio edge come out.
- U1, U2, D1Two uplights on the tree from two sides; one downlight high in it, lighting the lawn.
- W1–W3Three wash lights on the back fence. The spotlight comes out. The side bed stays dark.
- Runs A, B, CTwo heavier cables out to hub boxes, then equal leads to each light; the path lights share one short run.
- TTransformer tested sound: it stays. Photocell on at dusk, timer off at the hour you pick.
- LateralsCable routed clear of the sprinkler lines. Irrigation
- AllSwitched on at dusk, every fixture checked lit.
- U1, U2, D1Uplights aimed at the trunk and first branches; the downlight through the canopy.
- W1–W3, P1–P4Even wash on the fence, no hot spots. Path lights level, light pooled on the stones.
- TOff hour set with you, then walked with you.
Sample plan drawn for this page, not a customer’s yard. Fixture types, beams and color: Landscape lighting.
Can the old transformer be reused?
If it’s sound and has room for the new lights.
We test it and check what it would carry against what it’s rated for, with room left to add lights later. LED draws far less than old halogen: on the sample yard below, the new LED lights draw 39 of the old transformer’s 150 watts. Far groups of lights get their own cable to a hub box, so the last light isn’t dim.
- Tree lights, run A
- Path lights, run B
- Fence lights, run C
- With room to add lights later
So the old transformer stays, with room for more lights later. What’s sound stays on the plan; what isn’t is priced to replace.
Why does the job finish after dark?
Because each fixture is aimed while it’s lit. After the install, the system comes on at dusk; each fixture is aimed at its target and set level, the photocell and timer are set, and you walk it with us before it’s finished.
Next: Low-voltage installation · Lights already failing: Maintenance & upgrades
The landscape lighting completely improved the look of the property at night
…completed the task exactly how I imagined it to be
Lighting assessment, before you call.
Call to discuss it.
Call and tell Carlos about your property and what you want to change. He explains the assessment and the next step before arranging a visit.
The places you use after dark and what already works.
Tell Carlos which entrance, steps, paths or seating areas you want to use after dark, whether the house already has landscape lighting, and what bothers you about it. Include your neighborhood so we can confirm coverage before arranging a visit. If your HOA has exterior-lighting rules, have those available too.
A new layout and a failed light need different scopes.
Discuss an assessment if you want to change where the light falls, add coverage to paths or steps, or plan a new system. If the layout already works but lights are failing, describe the fault first so Carlos can discuss repair rather than assuming the whole system needs replacing.
Where we take new bookings.
All our services are available in the neighborhoods below. Our workday starts in Fairfield. We aim to keep routes within about 15 miles, serving the neighborhoods listed here rather than every address in the surrounding cities or counties. Call with your neighborhood and location before arranging a visit.
- Fairfield
- Cordelia, Rockville, Green Valley, Rancho Solano, Mankas Corner
- Vacaville
- Elmira, Browns Valley
- Vallejo
- Hiddenbrooke
- Suisun Valley
- Suisun Valley
- Napa
- Silverado Country Club, Browns Valley, Alta Heights, East Napa
- American Canyon
- All of American Canyon
Tell us your neighborhood and the work you need when you call. We confirm the property is on our service route before arranging a visit. Check our service area.
Walk the yard at dusk.
Tell us what you’d like lit, and what’s already there.
Call for a quote(707) 329-8391
