Garden Lighting UK Style

Creative garden lighting will transorm your garden into a distinctive beautiful outdoor spectacular day and night. Although we will not need to light all of our garden all day, garden lighting designers can strategically place garden lights in areas that will greatly enhance any part of your garden or landscape, anytime of the day....and all night. Paths, ponds, patios, pools, plant pots, practically anything!

If you think of garden lights being imitation coach lamps dangling from a wall, or PIR lights to throw the spotlight on intruders - think again.

Yes, for walls lanterns are great but what about down Lights, spread Lights and spot Lights? We are not restricted to hanging a lamp on a wall. British gardens can be beautiful for the vast majority of the year and when landscape gardeners and uk garden lighting experts come together, the end result is staggering.

Lights accentuate elements in your garden, the of use spike spot lights, lawn Lights, deck Lights, pole Lights, step Lights, floor Lights ... note how the title describes the task, that makes life easier!

 

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Often the garden lights themselves are a work of art and can become an integral part of the garden design during daylight hours they can be ornaments themselves and then take on their role as garden lights during darkness. On the other hand Garden Lighting Professionals may suggest using garden lights that will be absorbed into the landscape. Difficult to see during daylight and then come into their own as beautiful garden lights during the evening and night.

By deploying the skills of a garden lighting company as opposed to buying some garden lights from your DIY store and hoping for the best, a good garden lighting company will source fittings from leading international manufacturers, in styles ranging from the classic and traditional to the uncompromisingly contemporary - the benefit of this is that you will see ranges that you may never knew existed.

A good UK garden lighting supplier will have the experience too, they can suggest what works well and what doesn't. Be cautious about taking advice about outdoor electrical matters, you simply cannot, or better still must not, buy any old cable, lay it underground and think that's all there is to it.

Like most matters of health and safety there are minimum requirements and specifications. Garden lighting is no different. When you are talking to a garden lighting supplier, discuss IP ratings; An IP number is often used when specifying the environmental protection afforded by enclosures around electronic equipment. These ratings refer to specific tests. The IP number is made up of two components, the first number refers to the protection against solid objects and the second against liquids. The higher the number the better the protection. The charts below were kindly supplied by Mike Flitcroft of Garden Lighting Company .

We cannot afford to ignore these ratings and specifications, water and electricity is a killer, badly wired equipment is a killer.

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