Landscape Lighting in Wesley Chapel, FL
Path Lights and Uplights, Routed Around the Sprinklers|Licensed & Insured, EC13011268
A Wesley Chapel lawn can hide a working sprinkler system, and in a newer yard nobody may have seen where its pipe runs since the sod went down over it. We put in low-voltage landscape lighting that runs from a transformer at the house wall to each path light and uplight, with every cable run planned around what the ground already holds.
Do you know where your sprinkler zones run?
Call (352) 251-2795, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., or send a request online. Calls after hours are returned the next business day.
At a glance
Young Lawns and County Rules in Wesley Chapel
Pasco County's exemption list puts non-structural residential landscape elements among the work that needs no permit, a line that can take in a new bed or its edging. The outlet behind a landscape transformer is a different matter. If the transformer needs a new outdoor circuit, that circuit takes a Pasco County permit.
Under the county's watering rules, an established lawn in Wesley Chapel may be irrigated only on set days each week. Fixtures set in the beds between those days can stand there for a while before a scheduled cycle runs over them, so the next watering day is the first real test of where they sit.
Roughly 2,500 Wesley Chapel homes, by census estimate, date from 2020 or later. In a yard that new, the sod and the sprinkler pipe beneath it are recent work, and the pipe's true path may not match any drawing the owner was handed at closing.
How it runs
Landscape Lighting, Zone List to First Watering
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A list of the sprinkler zones
A controller lists its zones by number, and some owners have labeled a few of them. A note of which zone waters the front beds and which one covers the back gives the fixture layout its first map, ahead of choosing a spot in a bed.
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Utility marks before any trench
Power, phone, and cable lines can share the yard with the sprinkler pipe. The utilities mark their buried lines with paint or flags after a Sunshine 811 locate request, and no trench for the lighting is cut until those marks are down.
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A GFCI outlet at the transformer's wall
A landscape transformer needs an outdoor outlet or circuit with GFCI protection where it hangs. When that wall has none, the new or extended outdoor circuit run to it is electrical work that Pasco County permits and inspects.
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A look after the first watering day
After your next scheduled watering, walk the beds and see which fixtures stand in a head's throw or were nudged by a pop-up. A fixture in the wrong spot can usually slide along its cable, which is easier to sort out in the first week than after the mulch has settled around it.
What we cover
Landscape Lighting Around What's Buried in the Lawn
Each of these is in place before the first fixture arrives, and each one moves the cable or the transformer in its own way.
Sprinkler heads by the house wall
The transformer mounts on an exterior wall beside its GFCI-protected outlet, and a head near that wall can soak both on every watering cycle. The mount goes on a stretch of wall the nearest heads don't reach, and the outlet carries an in-use cover that stays closed with the transformer's cord plugged in.
Landscape cable across irrigation pipe
Under the lawn, plastic pipe runs out from each valve to its heads, and a thin low-voltage wire runs from the controller to each valve. Where the lighting cable crosses those lines at a right angle instead of sharing a trench beside them, a later sprinkler repair meets the cable at a single point. Valve boxes stay clear, with no fixture or splice set inside one.
Pavers, walks, and a poured drive
A fixture on the far side of a walk or driveway still needs its cable to pass under it. Pavers can be lifted along a narrow line and reset once the cable is beneath them. Under poured concrete, an empty sleeve left by the builder makes the crossing simple; where none was left, the cable can be bored under the slab or routed around the end of it.
Beds the builder planted
A builder's foundation planting is often set close together so the bed looks full on move-in day, and the shrubs keep widening for years. Fixtures are placed for the size the plants will reach in a few seasons, and the cable runs under the mulch between plants instead of through a root ball.
Pricing
The Landscape Lighting Quote and Its Crossings
Each walk, drive, or paver path the cable has to pass beneath shows up in the price, along with the number of fixtures and any new outdoor circuit the transformer needs.
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 Wesley Chapel townhome has a front bed the association maintains. Can landscape lights go in it?
The halogen landscape lights at our Wesley Chapel house date from the 2000s. Can they change to LED without new cable?
We're replacing the sod in our Wesley Chapel yard. Is the lighting cable at risk?
Our Wesley Chapel yard is only a couple of years old. What landscape lighting mistake is easy to make in a yard that new?
Can a light go out in the open lawn, away from any bed?
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Wesley Chapel Beds and Trees, Mapped Before Any Fixture
Tell us which beds and trees you'd like lit, and attach a photo of your sprinkler controller's zone list if it has one. Our office will reach you during business hours.