Low-Voltage Landscape Lighting Installation in the Fairfield Area
Low-voltage landscape lighting installation brings the agreed fixture layout, wiring and controls together. We plan cable routes and transformer capacity around the property before installation, then set the lights for the areas you want to use after dark. Call with your neighborhood and the work you have in mind.
The landscape lighting completely improved the look of the property at night
What goes in the ground?
Cable rated for direct burial, buried where it crosses the lawn and run under the beds to each light. Every splice goes into a waterproof connector. A hub layout also gathers the splices into one box instead of scattering one beside every fixture in the lawn, so there are fewer joints to fail and one place to test them.
Sprinkler wiring on our irrigation jobs gets the same sealed splices. The transformer mounts on the wall beside an outdoor outlet.
3-year warranty on qualifying irrigation and lighting systems.
On at dusk, off at the hour you pick.
A photocell turns the system on at dusk. Each home run lands on the transformer separately, so a timer or app can switch the front and the back off at different times.
Path and entry lights can stay on for a late arrival while tree and wall accents go dark at bedtime. Tell us about exterior-lighting rules from your HOA or local authority before the plan is finalized. The schedule should fit how you use the yard, with decorative lighting off when it is no longer needed.
Sample evening; the photocell follows the season, so dusk moves.
How big should the transformer be?
Big enough that all the lights together use no more than 80% of its rating.
The rest is room for lights added later. Add the back yard below and watch the load: on the sample front yard’s transformer it passes that line, so the back yard gets a larger transformer or a second one.
Why do the last lights on a cable go dim?
Every foot of cable loses a little power, and on a single chain the last light loses the most.
A daisy chain runs one cable from light to light, so each fixture gets a little less than the one before. On the ten-light front yard below, that holds. Add the back yard to the same cable and the far lights get less than 10 volts; LED lamps are rated for 10 to 15, so they dim or flicker.
A hub layout runs one heavier cable to a box in a bed, then a lead of the same length to each light, so every light gets the same power. The layout your yard gets goes on the plan from Assessment & design.
How hard the transformer works
Room to grow. New lights can join later.
Daisy chain, front yard only.
Sample yard drawn for this page, not a customer’s: the same front yard as the plan on Landscape lighting, with example LED wattages.
Before the install.
The fixtures, cable routes, power supply and controls.
The installation needs to account for where the light should fall, where cable can run, and how the system will be powered and controlled. Tell Carlos about paving, established beds, existing irrigation and any HOA lighting rules so they can be considered before the work is agreed.
Often, after the existing equipment is checked.
Additional lights depend on the transformer’s capacity, the wiring and the condition of the existing system. The assessment establishes what can be reused and what needs changing; adding fixtures is not a reason to assume the whole system must be replaced.
Discuss access and cable routes before installation.
Existing planting, paving, sprinkler lines and outdoor outlets affect the installation scope. Tell Carlos which areas you want lit and which parts of the yard need to remain undisturbed. The plan and written quote should account for that access before work begins.
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.
Plan the wiring, then dig.
Tell Carlos what you want lit, and where the outlet is.
Call for a quote(707) 329-8391
