Security and Motion Lighting in Wesley Chapel, FL
Motion Lights for Yards That Back Onto Open Land|Licensed & Insured, EC13011268
Some Wesley Chapel back fences face woods, wetland, or a pond, and a motion light pointed that way can see more than people after dark. Kennedy Electric puts up security lights on Wesley Chapel homes one side of the lot at a time, matching each sensor to what lies in front of it.
Mention what lies past the back fence.
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 Wesley Chapel Yards Meet Woods and Water
For all its growth, Wesley Chapel still has plenty of wildlife. In the Quail Hollow area, a coalition of neighborhoods notes that one large tract abuts a conservation area the Southwest Florida Water Management District owns to protect Cypress Creek.
Along an edge like that, animals moving at night can set off a sensor whose view reaches into the brush.
Roughly one home in seven in Wesley Chapel is attached, such as a townhome, by census estimates. On those, a wall shared with a neighbor takes up one side or both, and where both sides are shared, only the street side and the back are left for security lights.
How it runs
Notes on Either Side of a Wesley Chapel Visit
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A few nights of notes first
If a motion light is already up, note for a few nights which side trips with nobody there, and about what time, and which sides stay quiet.
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A mounting height for each side
At a weekday visit, each fixture goes up at the height its instructions call for, since a sensor's reach along the ground depends on how high it sits and how far it tilts.
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Settings matched to each side
Each sensor's range and sensitivity are set from what your notes showed, so the side that tripped most with nobody there is turned down furthest, and a side with no false trips keeps its reach.
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A week of ordinary nights
After the visit, keep the same notes for a week and set them beside the first ones. If false trips go on at one side, call and name that sensor, and its range can come down a step further.
What we cover
Motion Lighting for Each Edge of the Lot
Each edge of a lot faces something different, and that decides where a light points and what its sensor should leave out.
Motion lights on the street side
Out front, a camera may already hang at the garage, or a cable may wait there for one, and a security light near it shares that wall. If a camera watches the drive, the light and the lens have to work together: the flood goes beside or below the camera spot and points down the drive, away from the lens, since light shining into a lens can wash out the picture.
Side-yard security lights beside a neighbor
Between two detached houses, a side-yard sensor with a wide view can take in the neighbor's door and walk, and then it switches on each time they come and go. A narrower setting that ends at your own gate stops short of their door and walk.
One Wesley Chapel community writes the aim into its rules. Seven Oaks requires that outdoor fixtures be aimed away from neighboring property and the street, and it allows no light trespass onto the lots next door. On a home there, the rule reaches past the side yard to the front of the lot: a driveway or garage-corner flood is best aimed so its beam stays off the road as well as the next lot. Changes to existing homes in Seven Oaks come under its design review committee.
Back-yard motion sensors facing a preserve or pond
Here the sensor's range is shortened and its sensitivity lowered until its view ends at the back gate, the path, or the edge of the patio, short of the tree line or the water.
A wetland at the back edge can come with a strip of upland buffer, usually at least 25 feet wide around the county's Category I wetlands under Pasco's comprehensive plan. On a lot of more than an acre in the rural or lowest-density classes, that buffer can lie inside your own lot, under a conservation easement held by the homeowners' association or community development district. On a lot like that, a post light or a buried feed at the back is best kept on the house side of the buffer's edge, short of the easement.
Pricing
The Free Estimate on New Security Lights
The price rests on the number of lights and the run of cable from each one back to a circuit with room for the load.
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 lot backs onto a conservation area. Can a light go out past the fence?
Our back yard is deep. Will a flood on the house reach the far end?
Can a handyman put up a motion light on our Wesley Chapel house?
Our Wesley Chapel yard faces a preserve. Is an all-night light or a motion light the better pick for it?
Our house is concrete block with stucco. Can a light be added where there's no box today?
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Light Each Side of Your Wesley Chapel Lot for What It Faces
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