Electricians Bristol on: Low Voltage Landscape Lighting Design for your Bristol Home
May 30, 2011
Electricians Bristol on: Low Voltage Landscape Lighting Design for your Bristol Garden
Electricians Bristol - Garden Lighting
You spend all that time creating a masterpiece garden that the neighbours will envy. Ooops. You just realised you forgot to install the landscape lighting. The best time to plan a good landscape lighting design is when you are planning your garden layout for your Bristol home. That’s the time to get advice from a Bristol electrician. Electricians have experience with garden lighting and should be able give you all the advice you need.
Landscape lighting design can be a simple lighting layout or a work of art blending nature with artificial light, incorporating colour, shape and texture. You choose. What looks ordinary and dull during the day can be transformed into rich colour during the darker hours of night. The nature of landscape lighting demands versatility. With a wide variety of different surfaces and objects to be illuminated in a Bristol Garden the type of light and its placement needs to be considered very carefully.
Gather Your Ideas. Go over your Bristol garden design and decide on the objects, plants or trees you want to illuminate.
If you have one prominent feature in one part of the garden such as a large tree or a sculpture then you can concentrate your lighting on that object and have low level ground lighting surrounding it in the rest of the garden. On the other hand you may decide just to scatter general low level ground lighting in amongst plants of the same height which will create a flat effect but will give you a rainbow of colour. An Electrician will be able to give you advice to help you develop your ideas.
Floodlight or Spotlight? To help you with your landscape lighting design there are typically two lamp and reflector types. The wide angle lenses are used to flood a surface with a wash of light where a narrow angled lens is used for laser-like accuracy to put a spot of light on an object. Flood lighting works best by positioning it under leafy shrubs and trees. By doing this the floodlight will create shadows within the foliage and spill out onto surrounding plants. If you are trying to light a very large tree you may consider several floodlights to get an even spread of light. Spotlights work best if they are correctly positioned and aimed at the feature you are trying to highlight. A good way to get this right is to temporarily connect the spotlight and move it backwards and forwards until the right amount of light is highlighting the feature.
Colour is an important consideration for any landscape lighting design for your Bristol garden. The most common source of light is white light. When white light is used it generally brings out the true color of the surrounding plants and objects because it contains all the visible colours.
By using coloured filters or sleeves attached to the light fitting, colored light can be used to emphasize the natural colour of the surrounding plant foliage. Colours such as yellow are useful to use as it is a warm colour and brings out the best in the wood of trunks and branches. Reds and Blues are also very popular colours to use.
Textures with Water. Nothing in nature is smooth or symmetrical. With this fact in mind, light that is aimed at an angle onto rough textured surfaces can play an important part to your landscape lighting design. With the added element of moving water such as a fountain or waterfall, flickering shadows and reflections can be created. These are very soothing to the viewer.
Glare. To See and not be seen.When locating the in ground light fittings in your garden try and hide them away from view by using rocks or other features. There is nothing worse than ruining a perfectly good landscape lighting design by having all of your light fittings visible. Normally the light source or lamp of the fitting is not guarded and will create glare. Avoid this at all cost.
Bristol Electrician – Light Up Your Bristol Garden
May 20, 2011
Bristol Electrician - Light Up Your Bristol Garden
Electricians Bristol - Garden Lighting
If you have not yet installed outdoor lighting in your Bristol garden, you are in for a real treat. Not only will you be adding a whole new dimension to your garden, you will be doubling the use of it with outdoor lighting. Be aware your garden is going to look different at night than it does during the day when you incorporate outdoor lighting. In general, it’s going to look a lot more beautiful as you can set up the lights to focus on exactly what you want to display in your Bristol Garden. A Bristol electrician can give you advice on the best lighting for your Bristol garden. An experienced electrician will be familiar with all aspects of garden lighting.
Setting up outdoor lighting is definitely easier when you have a helper or get it done by an electrician. It’s difficult to know by day exactly how the lighting is going to look at night. No doubt you will need to make some adjustments when you first turn the lights on in your Bristol garden. Just experiment with them until you get things just the way you want them.
When setting your spotlights, consider carefully what you want to focus upon. Could it be a piece of garden statuary, a fountain or a beautiful shrub? Key being, the distance you set the spot light from your focus object. Start out with a distance of about 3 feet away from the object, setting the spotlight to shine slightly upwards.
Trees are particularly beautiful when lit at night. Try setting a spot light about 6′ in front of the tree and directing the light as high as possible. Perhaps an even more dramatic look is to place the light high up in the tree and direct the light downward. This is a great way to bring style to your Bristol garden.
Try the lighting on the trees both ways and see which look you like best. Once you are sure you have your lights just where you want them, it’s time to hide the electrical cord between the lamps. You could bury it an inch or two underground, but I recommend you simply cover it up with bark dust or whatever other medium matches the surrounding area. The reason being is plants grow and change shape. A shrub that looks great lit up with outdoor lighting tonight may have grown enough to actually cover over the lamp next season and will need to be moved. If in doubt just ask a local Bristol electrician to advice you.
Some manufactures of outdoor lighting offer colored lenses at an additional cost. These too can be particularly dramatic when focused upon a white statue or moving water. While a great idea, so far I have not been impressed with any outdoor lighting that runs by solar power. If you have no electricity nearby, consider the use of using tiki torches to light up your garden on those special occasions. Just make sure they are well stabilised and aren’t anywhere near anything flammable, including tall plants and trees.
Electricians Bristol -Interesting Facts About Bristol Electricians
April 10, 2011
Electricians Bristol -Interesting Facts About Bristol Electricians
Bristol Electricians maintain electrical systems for residential homes and businesses. Most Bristol and Bath electricians specialise in doing work in construction or maintenance within the South West of England. But more and more people are doing both types of work. Electricians test, install and maintain electrical systems for many purposes. Such as climate control, communications and security. Electricians also do work in business and industry. Electricians have to follow the proper building codes when installing electrical systems. It is a very needed profession all over. Electricians sometimes learn their trade through on the job training and also through formal training such as apprenticeship programs. Some people start out by going to vocational schools when they are young. And others get special training through other places.
Some electricians are self employed and others work for sub contractors.
Electricians do different types of work. Some of these types of work are wiring new houses and buildings. They also wire older buildings and homes. Electricians do maintenance around homes and businesses inspecting electrical systems and fixing problems that they may encounter. Electricians use a variety of tools to do their work. They use wire cutters, screwdrivers, knives, pliers, and hack saws just to mention a few. They also use a variety of power and testing tools while doing their work. Electricians have to be good at reading blueprints, planning and doing projects, using tools and being able to see and know the different colors of wires.
Electricians can do many jobs to keep your home safe.
The type of person that should work as a electrician are people that can work under strenuous situations. People that are good with using their hands to work, people that have very good hand eye coordination and also people that will work under any condition. A electrician sometimes will have to work under dirty situations and also hot and cold temperatures. Electricians also must be physically fit to get in and out of tight spots. Electricians normally have a similar pattern to do their work. They study over their blueprints. They install wiring and do preventive maintenance. They perform safety evaluations and locate defects and problems in electrical systems.Electricians need to wear the right clothing while doing their job. They should dress in appropriate clothing that is tight so that is does not get caught up on anything when they have to work in tight surroundings. They should always dress for the weather. Sometimes electricians have to work in very cold and hot temperatures. They should always dress properly for the weather to be comfortable while doing their job. It is important for an electrician to always wear good work boots. These work boots should have good traction so that there is no slipping or falling on the job. Sometimes an electrician has to climb and walk on wet surfaces. Wearing rubber boots can keep them from slipping and sliding around on wet surfaces where they have to walk.
Bristol Electricians – Why we Need Bristol Electricians
April 7, 2011
Bristol Electricians – Why We Need Bristol Electricians
Bristol Electrician
Why do people need a Bristol electrician?
Most people think that when they are building or renovating a home, that these are the only times that they would need a Bristol electrician. But actually you need electricians for doing a lot more than just those job. If you own a home in Bristol or Bath and have problems with your electricity you should call an electrician. A Bristol electrician can fix your electrical jobs safely. It is far better to call an electrician than to try and do the job yourself and then end up doing something wrong. If you don’t do the job right it can be dangerous and could cause a fire in your home. And also down the road it could be costly if you have to call an electrician in to re-do the job right.
Bristol Electricians are trained to know what they are doing and they can do any electrical job right.
Newer and older homes should have the electrical wiring checked out and inspected before purchasing the home. This will save money if you find out that it is faulty or in need of updating. An electrician will come in handy to make the wiring safe in any Bristol and Bath home. Some people try and do electrical jobs themselves but if you do, you will always wonder if you did everything right or not.
You can usually find an electrician in the phone book if you need one. You can also find an electrician on the internet by looking through local ads. Some people will ask around in their community if anyone knows of a good electrician. A good Bristol electrician can be found a number of ways. By searching for an electrician like this you can save money in some cases and find a electrician close to your home that will do good work for you.
An electrician can do many types of electrical jobs in Bristol and Bath.
Some electricians will not only work on homes, but will also do the wiring of security systems. It all depends on what type of electrical job you need to have done. An electrician will do work when a new home is being built or renovated to wire it correctly. And electricians also work on construction sites when buildings are being put up.
When picking out an electrician try and find one that is qualified, well known by others and good at what they do. Like any professional some electricians are better and more experienced at what they do than others. Check them out first before you hire them to do work for you. There is nothing wrong with finding more information out about them. See if they are professional as this is important to know if you need a job done. It will tell you that they have had training and put in hours of training to know how to do the job right for you. A electrician is a professional that we need for many jobs around our home. They make sure that our homes are wired safely. It is a good idea to call a qualified electrician for all the electrical jobs around our home.