As the city of San Antonio continues to recover from the many issues created by the cold and snow last week, we know that the state of your outdoor lighting is not on the top of the priority list. However, once homeowners have taken care of the big things, there are a few maintenance items to check on to ensure your outdoor lighting system is
Fire ants are one of the biggest enemy of your beautiful outdoor lighting. And it’s not just fire ants, other ant species are attracted to your outdoor lighting as well. Ants are attracted to heat and love building their mounds around lights. If ants can find a way to get into a light fixture or transformer box, they will. Fire ants will actually crawl up
At Christmas time, we often receive calls regarding holiday lights not coming on. Inevitably its right after a wet winter storm. The most common cause of this is a GFI outlet tripping. All exterior outlets on modern homes are either GFI outlets or tied to a GFI outlet. This means that the outlet the holiday lights are plugged into may not actually be the offending
At Christmas time, we often receive calls regarding electrical problems with the bathroom, garage or outdoor outlets not working. The usual cause for this problem is that the outdoor Christmas lights have tripped a GFI outlet or circuit breaker in your home. Standard circuit breaker will trip if you over load the wiring with too many lights on one breaker. GFI circuits are a little
In our past post, we covered a common DIY mistake when installing outdoor lighting - lighting overkill. We will continue with that theme on this post as well with outdoor lighting placement. Another common mistake we see in DIY installation is the placement of outdoor lighting. It is important to consider what features of your property should be highlighted, visibility and safety issues as well as how
Have your exterior lights stopped working and you can't figure out why? As part of your troubleshooting, you should check your GFCI outlets. A tripped outlet is often the cause of lighting issues and it is a simple fix. To reset a GFCI outlet, you just press the red reset button on your outlet. Here is the tricky part of the troubleshooting...you should check ALL of
