Landscape Lighting in Spring Hill, FL
Low-Voltage Lights, Planned by Purpose|Licensed & Insured, EC13011268
A landscape light earns its place in a Spring Hill yard by lighting one thing well, from a spot its cable can reach without crossing ground the owner can't build on. Kennedy Electric installs low-voltage landscape lighting for Spring Hill homes and, where the yard needs one, the outdoor circuit its transformer runs from.
Which light would you add first?
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At a glance
Recorded Easements Along Spring Hill Lot Lines
Easements usually follow property lines, and in Hernando County a recorded easement stays in effect even when no utility line or equipment shows above the grass. The county's easement-use permits allow minor concrete, such as a patio or a driveway, provided no permanent structure is placed on the easement. For landscape lighting, that points the transformer, any post, and the fixtures toward the owner's side of a recorded easement, and a cable run near the lot line is laid out with the easement's edge in mind.
Drainage easements and pond areas run between the lots in some of Spring Hill's older residential blocks, and the county's plan for one of them calls that land publicly owned and dry most of the year. A dry, grassy strip past the back of a lot can look like more yard to light, but it may not be the owner's to light from, so fixtures and cable stay on the lot itself.
How it runs
Three Steps to a Lit Spring Hill Yard
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The recorded easements found first
Hernando County leaves it to the owner to identify recorded easements before an accessory structure goes in. Any survey from your closing papers usually marks them, so have it at hand for the visit, along with a note of anything you know runs under the yard.
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Your own markers in the yard
If you push a garden flag into the ground wherever you picture a light, the layout can be talked through from those spots during our weekday visit. Seeing the flags in daylight makes it easier to move one a foot or two, drop one, or add another before any cable goes in.
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A permit for any new outdoor circuit
The transformer runs from a GFCI-protected outdoor outlet. If the yard has no outlet in a workable spot, a new outdoor circuit goes in for it, and in Hernando County a new electrical circuit is permitted work. Securing that permit is our side of the work, and the county inspects the new circuit at each visit the permit calls for.
What we cover
The Purpose Behind Each Landscape Light
Each purpose below settles three things: the kind of fixture, how far apart the fixtures sit, and the path its cable follows back to the transformer.
Landscape lights around the back-yard seating
Softer, lower light around a patio, a fire pit, or a bench under a tree, enough to find a chair and see faces without lighting up the windows next door. Fixtures here are often fewer and dimmer than along the walk, and their cable reaches the back of the lot along the house wall and the bed edges.
Lighting the front of the house
Spotlights or wide-beam floods set in the front beds wash light across the front wall, a pair of columns, or an entry planter. Each one is angled so the beam grazes the wall and keeps its brightest part below the windows, which holds down glare in the rooms inside.
Uplighting a tree that's staying
Hernando County requires a permit before anyone removes a specimen tree, 18 inches or more in diameter at breast height, or a majestic tree of 36 inches or more; sand pines and palms are excluded. A large oak that falls under that rule is likely to stand for years, which makes it a lasting subject for an uplight. The fixture is set out from the trunk on the side you'll view it from, and its cable skirts the larger roots instead of cutting through them.
Path and step lighting
Low fixtures that throw their light down onto the walk, the edge of the drive, and each step up to the door. They're spaced so one pool of light just meets the next, which reads as a lit path rather than a row of bright dots, and they sit a little back in the bed where feet and mower wheels pass them by. Their cable follows the bed edge beside the walk.
Pricing
Landscape Lighting Priced Yard by Yard
Landscape lighting is priced on the number of fixtures, the transformer they call for, whether an outdoor outlet or circuit has to be added for it, and how far the cable travels to reach each light.
Custom homes and large or multi-phase projects are estimated as soon as we can, or on the timeline your project sets.
Repair and troubleshooting visits are billed by the hour from arrival: $100 residential, $150 commercial, one-hour minimum, then half-hour increments, plus materials. No trip charge and no service fee. No hidden fees: the 3.5% surcharge on card and ACH payments is listed in our terms.
We don't do upfront pricing. No job has a standard price with us: each one is tailored to the property and the work you've asked for, and priced once we've seen it.
We offer free estimates on installs, upgrades, and replacements in our service area. Estimates aren't free when the job needs troubleshooting or testing to price, falls after hours or outside our service area, needs several meetings to gather information, or is new construction or a custom remodel with multi-party walk-throughs. For most jobs, estimates arrive by email by the end of the next business day, and quotes are good for 30 days.
Our warranty
05If something we installed fails because of our workmanship within 30 days of completion, we waive the hourly labor to put it right. Materials Kennedy Electric purchases for your job carry the manufacturer's one-year warranty. To replace defective materials we supplied, or materials damaged by storm, flood, fire, or other acts of God, we charge a reduced warranty labor rate of $50 an hour residential and $75 an hour commercial. The warranty does not cover materials not purchased by Kennedy Electric, work performed by the customer, or materials the customer purchased or damaged. Our warranty terms are printed on the estimate, the invoice, and the receipt, and the product boxes stay with you so you can register each product with its manufacturer.
Our Spring Hill lot backs onto a dry drainage easement. Can a light still show off the trees out there?
Does landscape lighting at a Spring Hill home have to be installed by a licensed electrician?
Should the lights go in before or after new planting beds?
Can the lights by the patio stay on later than the path lights?
We top our beds with fresh pine straw every spring. Will that bury the path lights?
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Daylight Photos of Your Spring Hill Yard
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