5 Ways Landscape Lighting Experts Save You Money

For homeowners in Phoenix, finding the right company for your landscape lighting project can significantly impact your costs over time. Simply put, hiring someone with long-term experience helps prevent the many costly mistakes that less experienced contractors, such as landscapers, often make. Inexperienced installers often lack the expertise to use proper installation techniques, fixture placement that maximizes its potential, and quality installation materials. All this adds up to higher costs over time, both for repairs and for premature replacement of equipment. Here’s how a seasoned lighting expert can save you money on your Ahwatukee Foothills landscape lighting.

Upfront Savings Through Thoughtful Design

An expert with decades of experience knows how to design lighting systems that reduce costs from the outset. For example, knowing which fixtures deliver more light for the money, but not too much light for the area. Striking a balance between proper fixture placement and selection is key, and this is a skill that takes years to hone. The benefit is you’ll minimize the cost of installation while achieving the ideal amount of light for every area of your property.

For homeowners in areas like Ahwatukee Foothills, a customized design based on years of experience will help enhance features like palm trees, pathways, and pool areas without overspending. Unlike generalists such as electricians or landscapers, a landscape lighting specialist knows special tricks to avoid problems later on, such as misaligned fixtures or overloaded circuits, resulting in a lighting system that will stay looking great far longer.

Service Call Savings with Silicone Wire Connectors

As a lighting company that does a lot of repair work, Phoenix Lighting Repair sees what lasts and what causes problems long-term. One of the leading causes of service calls to repair lights that suddenly stop working is the use of cheap, basic wire nuts that aren’t designed to endure Arizona’s harsh climate. This is why we only use silicone-filled wire connectors. These connectors prevent corrosion and maintain a water-tight seal, along with a firm grip of the wire to ensure a complete connection for life.

While silicone wire connectors are considerably more expensive, the benefits to the homeowner add up to a far greater savings over the years. The average service call for these types of lighting problems is around $250 per visit, so just imagine how much this can add up when there are dozens if not hundreds of connections in a lighting system. Small details add up to huge savings, and this is something only landscape lighting experts fully understand.

Quality LED Bulbs for Reliability

While LED bulbs last longer than incandescent for the most part, choosing low-cost LED bulbs can create a frustrating experience for homeowners. Often, these bulbs cannot withstand the heat of being inside a metal fixture in direct sunlight. This leads to premature failure, which can either manifest as flashing or complete burnout. Experienced lighting experts who’ve seen the long-term results of LED bulbs know which ones are problematic and which aren’t. They will help you steer clear of alternatives that seem like a great deal, but later on become an enormous hassle.

Phoenix Lighting Repair LLC uses only high-quality low-voltage LED bulbs, backed by a minimum 3-year warranty, with some even boasting a lifetime warranty. That’s because Justin, the owner, has been using LED bulbs for 20 years now. He’s seen what works, what doesn’t, and what has caused the most frustration for customers.

Proper LED Bulb Selection = More for Your Money

Beyond the durability of LED bulbs, choosing the correct wattage and beam angle are crucial as well. Selecting a wattage that is too low will result in underutilized light fixtures. That means you get less light for your hard-earned dollars. This is a common issue when landscape lighting installations are done by inexperienced, jack-of-all-trades service providers. 

When these amateurs buy lights at the supply house, they simply pick the ones with pre-installed bulbs. This means every single one comes with an LED bulb that’s 3 watts, with a 38-degree beam angle. The result is broader plantings, such as canary island date palms, only receive about half the amount of light necessary to look great. 

The proper LED bulb for these trees is at minimum 5 watts with a 60-degree beam angle. That bulb will ensure illumination of the trunk and the fronds (leaves). The cost is only a few bucks more, but the difference is massive. Kinda like a car salesman only offering to sell you the V-6 Charger when you coulda had the supercharged 392. A total misuse of full potential!

Less Time Troubleshooting Means Less Costly Repairs

A lighting expert with 20 years of experience has seen just about everything. 20 years ago, LED lighting was still new, with many systems still entirely incandescent. This demanded careful balancing of the scant 12 volts they had to work with. Using transformers that could push up to 18 volts helped, but differing wire lengths meant some lights would be dimmer than others. It was a real struggle.

Today, LED bulbs are the same brightness whether they’re getting 10 or 15 volts. While it’s a God-send for experts, the problem is, it creates a false sense of confidence for those without an understanding of how the underlying electrical principles work. This can result in overloaded circuits, transformers, and wiring, which can cost you thousands of dollars in repair costs. Sometimes, it requires a full system replacement. Troubleshooting these low-budget lighting installations can be practically impossible for amateurs, because they never understood what they were doing in the first place. An expert, on the other hand, can usually identify these sorts of errors relatively quickly, which saves you hundreds in labor costs. If someone has to take hours and hours to figure out what’s wrong, that adds up to a big bill, and often with sub-par outcomes.

More advanced systems like FX Luminaire’s Luxor Controller, which can create dozens of custom lighting scenes, dim, and change color, demand a true expert who’s had training from the manufacturer on how to properly program and troubleshoot these systems. That’s why Justin at Phoenix Lighting Repair LLC is a Certified FX Luminaire Luxor Controller Specialist. By choosing a lighting expert who takes the time to get the proper training, you’re sure to get reliable service without repeated (costly) visits.

Key Benefits of Hiring a Lighting Expert

• Upfront Savings Through Thoughtful Design: More light with fewer fixtures.
• Service Call Savings with Silicone Wire Connectors: Reliable connections for life.
• Quality LED Bulbs for Reliability: Bulbs with a minimum 3-year warranty.
• Proper LED Bulb Selection: More beauty for the same relative cost.
• Less Time Troubleshooting Means Less Costly Repairs.

Ready to save money with a lighting expert with 20 years of experience under his belt? Call or text Justin at Phoenix Lighting Repair LLC today for a free quote. (480) 604-3528