Questions to Ask When Choosing a Landscape Lighting Company

Outdoor lighting can be the perfect touch for your Texas home, accentuating the architectural finishes and landscaping…if it’s done right. If not set up properly, however, your lighting may fall flat or even detract from your beautiful property. The decision about which landscape lighting company to use plays a huge role in the success of the final product.

So before you choose the first Dallas-Fort Worth area landscape lighting company you find, make sure you’re doing your due diligence in selecting a business that will do it right the first time.

Here are six questions that will help you narrow down your options:

1.      Do You Support Smart Home Automation?

More and more often, an outdoor lighting system isn’t just an outdoor lighting system. It’s part of something greater. Through home automation, you can have one system that controls the lights (indoor and out), the climate, the televisions, the multi-room music, and more. It really helps when learning how to operate the lighting system because it’s one platform for everything.

And even if you don’t want to start out with smart lighting, it’s nice to know if it’s something that can easily be integrated later.

2.      How Much Energy Can I Expect to Save?

Today’s outdoor lighting systems can be incredibly energy-efficient. By using LED lighting and connecting it to a smart home automation system that ensures you’re only lighting your property when you want to, you can cut down significantly on energy usage.

But not all systems are built with energy-efficiency in mind. Your landscape lighting company should be well-versed in information about energy usage. If they’re not, it could be a sign that they’re not setting up systems that are low-energy.

SEE ALSO: The Energy-Efficient Smart Home Automation Products You Could Be Missing Out On

3.      Can You Walk Me Through How to Use the System?

Often, people get stuck with outdoor lighting systems that are confusing and complicated. It’s not a simple process to turn the lights on, adjust the color hue, or set certain areas to be on while others are off. The best way to find out what kind of system you’ll have before you buy? Have them walk you through it! If, during the system demo, you find you can easily pick up on how to adjust your lights, you’ll be on the right track. If it’s confusing while you have a trained professional walking you through it, it’s definitely going to be difficult once you’re on your own.

4.      What Systems Do You Offer?

There are a lot of great outdoor lighting products available. One of our recent favorite options is Colorbeam, an LED lighting system that offers gorgeous colors perfect for setting the right mood for any occasion. This question is particularly important if you have an existing home automation system, as you want to make sure that the outdoor lighting products are fully supported and will integrate with ease.

5.      What Will I Be Able to Do with My System?

This is where some companies will really shine (pun intended). On the surface, all of these landscape lighting companies may appear similar, but they won’t all support the same feature sets.

• Can you change the color of the lights?
• Can the lights turn on and off in rhythm with a song?
• Can the lights turn off automatically when the sun comes up?
• Can you set the lights to brighten up a pathway from the driveway to the front door?

There are so many possibilities out there. Explore the options that will work best for your lifestyle and property.

6.      What Kind of Support Do You Offer?

At the end of the day, an outdoor lighting system is technology. And in the unlikely event that something goes wrong, you need a landscape lighting company you can rely on. Find out if they offer ongoing support services, what would be covered under product warranty, and the anticipated response time to fix the issue if there is one.

Outdoor lighting can take your property to the next level. If you’d like to learn more about our landscape lighting solutions or fully-fledged home automation systems, we’re one phone call away. Reach us at (817) 980-0347 or fill out this quick form for more information.