Tired of the dark already?

With the end of daylight savings time last weekend, it is dark by the time most of us get home from work!  Are you wanting to enjoy your outdoor space after it gets dark? Landscape Lighting Guru can help brighten your evenings with outdoor lighting.

If you have been thinking about adding some outdoor lighting, now is the time to do it.  With the holidays quickly approaching, it is great to add another entertaining space to your home.  With the mild winters in San Antonio, the only thing stopping people from being outside is that it is too dark to see anything!  With outdoor lighting you can add the flexibility to entertain on your patio 365 days a year.

It is also a good time to check your outdoor timers.  There are several different type of timers used for outdoor lighting and what needs to be updated depends on what type of timer you have.  If your lighting system has been installed in the last few years, you likely have an astronomical timer or a photocell.  Those types of timers should automatically adjust for daylight savings time and you shouldn’t need to do a thing!

If you have a manual timer, you will need to adjust for daylight savings time.  You will likely be able to tell if you need to do this if your landscape lights are on when they shouldn’t be or off when you want them on!  To adjust your timer, you first need to find your transformer which will be located outside (usually near your utilities) or inside your garage.  The transformer is a box and you will unlatch it to open it and find your timer.  To adjust the time, you rotate the dial clockwise until the correct time is shown in the window in the middle of the timer.  You can also adjust the start time and end times for your lights by moving the green and red pins.  The green is the start time and the red is the end time.  If you have any questions or need help, please give us a call and we would be happy to help.

This is the busiest time of the year for the Guru as it gets darker earlier and with the holiday lighting starting to go up so don’t delay in giving us a call!!  Are you interested in adding lighting but don’t want to take on a big project right now?  Landscape Lighting Guru can easily break your project down into phases that take your biggest priority now into consideration.  We do this for a lot of our clients and they are always surprised at how a little lighting can go a long way in making a big difference in how you view and use your space!