Landscape Lighting Installation in Broken Arrow and Tulsa

Landscape lighting installation in Broken Arrow and Tulsa

Landscape lighting does two jobs. It makes the walk from the driveway to the door safe after dark, and it makes the house look as good at night as it does in daylight. Hot Shot Electric Service Co. designs and installs landscape lighting for homes in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Jenks, Bixby and the surrounding towns, and the work is built to hold up through Oklahoma heat, storms and freezes.

Outdoor lighting in Broken Arrow: what we light

Paths, steps and driveways

Low path lights along walks and driveways, and step lights on stairs and retaining walls, so nobody trips coming home. These are the lights that matter most for safety.

Trees, walls and the front of the house

Uplights on trees, wash lights on the face of the house and accent lights on stone or columns. A few well-placed fixtures make a house stand out on the street without lighting it like a parking lot.

Gardens, beds and water features

Soft accent lighting in planting beds and around ponds or fountains, placed so you see the plants, not the fixtures.

Decks, patios and pergolas

Lighting for the spaces you use at night, often tied into a covered patio with a fan and heater. See patio fans, lighting and heaters.

How a landscape lighting system is built

Most landscape lighting is low voltage. A transformer steps household power down to a safe low voltage, and cable runs shallowly through beds and along paths to each fixture. The transformer plugs into, or is wired to, a GFCI-protected outdoor outlet and usually runs on a timer or photocell, so the lights come on at dusk without anyone thinking about it.

• A transformer sized to the total fixture load, with room to add later
• A GFCI-protected weatherproof outlet for the transformer, installed if you do not have one
• Cable runs laid out so voltage is even and the far fixtures are not dim
• LED fixtures that use a fraction of the power of older halogen lamps
• A timer or photocell, and an app where the transformer supports it

Design with you, not for you

We walk the property with you, usually in daylight and sometimes again at dusk, and talk through what you want to see at night and what you want to stay dark. The number of fixtures is driven by the yard, not a package. You get the layout and the price before anything is installed.

Repairs and upgrades

Older systems lose fixtures to lawn mowers, have cables cut by edging and aerating, and run on halogen lamps that burn out. We repair and replace fixtures, find cut cables, upgrade old systems to LED and replace transformers that have failed. If your current lights are dim at the far end, the system is usually overloaded or the cable is undersized, and we can fix that.

Solar path lights vs a wired system

Solar path lights are inexpensive and easy, and they have a place. They also dim on cloudy days, fail in shade and need batteries replaced. A wired low-voltage system on a timer lights the same every night and lasts much longer. Many homeowners start with solar and call us when they are ready for something they do not have to think about.

Where it fits with the rest of your outdoor project

Landscape lighting is often the finishing step on an outdoor living project, after an outdoor kitchen or a pool. The best time to run cable is while beds are being planted or reworked, before mulch and stone go down, so let us know when your landscaper is scheduled. Indoors, see lighting installation.

Fixtures that last outdoors

Oklahoma yards see summer heat, hard freezes, heavy rain and the occasional hailstorm. Fixtures made of solid brass or quality aluminum with sealed lenses outlast lightweight ones, and LED lamps last for years without the heat of older halogen bulbs. Connections in the ground are where cheap systems fail first, so we use sealed, direct-burial connectors rather than the crimp-on kind that corrode in a season.

Planning for growth

A yard changes. Trees grow, beds get redone, a patio gets added. We size the transformer with room for more fixtures and leave cable loops where you are likely to add lights later, so the system can grow without being rebuilt.

Security and safety lighting

Lighting the approach to the front door, the side yard and the back gate makes a house safer and less inviting to anyone who should not be there. Path and step lights prevent falls, and a few lights along a dark side yard make taking out the trash at night easier. Motion-activated floodlights at full voltage can be part of the same plan. We place them so they light what matters without shining into a neighbor's windows.

Working around irrigation

Many yards already have sprinklers. Fixtures are placed and aimed so heads do not spray directly onto lenses, and cable is routed so irrigation repairs are less likely to cut it.

Pricing

Landscape lighting is quoted after we walk the property and agree on a layout. Estimates for planned work are free, and fixtures and transformers we supply carry our one-year warranty on manufactured items, on top of the manufacturer's own warranty.

On a landscape lighting job, fixtures are set, cable is buried, the transformer is mounted and programmed, and we come back at dusk when needed to aim the lights so they hit what you want and stay out of your eyes and your neighbors' windows.