Security and Motion Lighting in Spring Hill, FL
Lit From the Curb to the Back Fence|Licensed & Insured, EC13011268
After dark, a Spring Hill lot asks different things of a light at the driveway, the front door, the side yards, and the back fence. Kennedy Electric installs motion lights, dusk-to-dawn fixtures, and LED floods on Spring Hill homes, and each of those spots, from the street back to the rear of the lot, can have the control and the aim it needs.
Say which part of the lot you'd light first.
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
Where the Streetlights Thin Out in Spring Hill
In at least one older Spring Hill neighborhood, streetlights stood far apart along the residential streets, as a county revitalization plan for the area pointed out. On a street like that, the stretch from the curb to the garage door can stay unlit until a fixture on the house reaches it, and a driveway motion light is aimed to cover that stretch.
When a streetlight goes out, one Spring Hill homeowners association directs residents to the power company's repair line. For the county lighting district and the yard lights a utility owns, see Outdoor Lighting in Spring Hill.
Nearly two in three owner-occupied homes in Spring Hill have two or more vehicles, by census estimates. Where the garage holds fewer cars than the household owns, the rest can sit on the driveway overnight, which puts the band nearest the street first when motion lights are planned.
How it runs
Setting Up Motion Lighting on a Spring Hill Lot
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The bands sketched from the street
Before the visit, note from the curb which parts of the lot your current lights leave unlit at night, then take daylight photos of the front, the sides, and the back of the house. Those photos show where a fixture can mount and how far each band sits from an existing outdoor box.
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Mounted and aimed in daylight
The fixtures go up during our weekday hours, each on the control its band calls for. A dusk sensor holds a motion light off while the sun is up, so the sensors are aimed using the test setting many of them carry, and the range and on-time are set to the distances you described.
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Your own walk once it's fully dark
That evening, walk the route a visitor would take: up the drive, to the door, along each side yard, and out to the back fence. Note where each light comes on and how long it stays lit, and the electrician can adjust each one from your notes.
What we cover
Security Lighting in Four Bands, From the Curb Back
Each band needs three answers: what switches the light on, where it points, and how much ground it has to reach.
Driveway lighting nearest the street
A motion flood at the garage corner, mounted so that anyone walking up from the road crosses its view on the way in. The sensor is tilted and its range set so the view ends at the edge of the drive rather than out in the street.
The front entry and the walk to it
A steady, lower light beside the door on a photocell, so a visitor's face shows at the threshold. The cell has to see open daylight and not face another lamp: a light shining on the cell reads as day, and the fixture then stays off all night.
Side yards between the houses
Motion only, with a narrow view along the side of the house that covers the gate, the AC unit, and the trash cans. The beam is aimed down and kept on your side of the fence as a courtesy to the house next door.
Security lighting at the back lot line
A flood on the rear wall aimed out toward the fence, or a light on a post near the back of the lot. Out there, a motion head leaves the fence line dark until something moves through the sensor's view.
Pricing
What a Security Lighting Estimate Depends On
The price follows how many bands take a light, whether each spot already has an outdoor box, and how far new cable has to run to reach the side yards or the back of the lot.
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 house sits on a corner lot. Should the side street get its own motion light?
We park two cars side by side on our Spring Hill driveway. Will one motion light cover both?
Can the light by the front door stay on all night while the driveway light waits for motion?
Cars passing on our Spring Hill street keep setting off the driveway light. Would tape over part of the sensor stop it?
The side-gate light shuts off before we're back from the trash cans. Can it stay on longer?
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Which Part of Your Spring Hill Lot Goes Unlit?
List the bands you'd like lit, from the driveway to the back fence. Our office will reach you during business hours.