🏡 Better Homes Any exterior lighting experts in here?

[blakbearddelite]

We just ordered some landscaping and palm trees that I'd like to light up. The landscaping company quoted me at $550 for the transformer and roughly $200/light. I understand those amounts included labor.

I'd like to hear anyone's experience with transformers (installing them and their functionalities) as well as what kind of lights and wiring people have used to run to them.

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[Blownbyyou]

Super simple to do (especially if you take your time)...

id buy from here and be done with it..

Factory Direct Landscape Lighting | VOLT® Lighting

Shop VOLT® for easy-to-install landscape lighting fixtures, low voltage transformers and LED outdoor light bulbs with free shipping and lifetime warranties.

www.voltlighting.com

 

[Yaj Yak]

Super simple to do (especially if you take your time)...

id buy from here and be done with it..

Factory Direct Landscape Lighting | VOLT® Lighting

Shop VOLT® for easy-to-install landscape lighting fixtures, low voltage transformers and LED outdoor light bulbs with free shipping and lifetime warranties.

www.voltlighting.com

have you bought from here before? or done it this way?

 

[smug]

I’ll have to try and grab a new picture but I did this last fall for a few hundred bucks. I did change the lights by the wall and it looks more even instead of just spots lit up.

I went cheap with buying stuff from Amazon but everything is still working and it has been a non issue. I bought a transformer from harbor freight, some in ground spotlights for light up my retaining wall and up lighting by my front window. Also, added some path way lights by my sidewalk to the front door and near the retaining wall.
It’s super easy if you plan out what you want and where your going to place the lights. That really is the hardest part and makes or breaks the outcome of the project. Just run the wires in your landscape beds, cover with stones or mulch and make some water proof connections and your golden.