Light Maintenance

The Guru highly recommends annual maintenance on your lighting system to give your outdoor lights the longest life possible. Here is a checklist of helpful fall maintenance tips:

1) Keep Lenses Clean

Minerals deposits, dirt, and debris can dim or completely block the light from a fixture. Keeping your lenses clean is important if you want the best lighting effect. Particularly, low setting ground fixtures.

You can use a nonabrasive cloth and CLR type of cleaner to clean your lenses. It might take a bit of elbow grease to get it clean.

2) Check for Exposed Wires

Exposed wires need to be inspected and reburied. Any damaged wire indicate repairs need to be made. We do not recommend doing this yourself.

3) Adjust Fixtures

Over time, fixtures can move out of alignment or get damaged from landscaping or weather. You can periodically walk through your property to re-align any crooked fixtures.

4) Check Bulbs

Extreme temperatures can shorten the life of a bulb.  We recommend you replace any bulbs that are out as soon as you can. Each bulb in a low-voltage system draws a small amount of voltage. As bulbs burn out, the good bulbs nearby receive more voltage, which can shorten their life. Landscape lighting systems tend to run longer every night since there is less daylight in the winter months.

5) Check for Common Moisture-Related Problems

Wet weather can trip your GFCI outlet. For more information on how to reset your GFCI, see our past posts!

https://landscapelightingguru.com/gfci-reset-circuit-breaker-reset/

Not up for doing it yourself?   Don’t you have something more fun to do on the weekends? The Guru would be happy to do it for you with an annual maintenance appointment.  During an annual maintenance appointment, our lighting technicians will walk your property and test the system for broken equipment, burned out lights, and damage.  During the service we will inspect every fixture, transformer, wire and timer to make sure they are working properly.  This is especially important if you have tree mounted light fixtures so we can back off the fixture and equipment to account for tree growth. Without an annual checkup, the fixtures can become embedded into the tree, causing a greater risk of pest infiltration, bark rot, electrical shorts, and possible fire.  Give us a call at 210-710-7737 to schedule today!