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Lead Story · SEP 28

Security Lighting for Your Property: What Actually Deters Someone|Does Security Lighting Work? The Honest Answer|Rethinking Security Lighting

The default answer, and its problem Almost everybody starts with a floodlight. The instinct is understandable and mostly wrong. A single harsh source creates as much shadow as it removes, and those shadows are worse than the original dark.Put all of that together and it looks different from a floodlight on a bracket. It is several modest sources rather than one strong one, covering the approaches rather than blasting the yard. It costs no more than the floodlight approach i

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Analysis · SEP 26

Holiday Light Takedown and Storage: Where Your Lights Live Until Next Year|What Happens to Holiday Lights in January? Here Is How It Should Work|Christmas Light Takedown: What to Expect

Everybody plans the install. Almost nobody plans January Holiday lighting conversations are almost entirely about putting them up. Which makes sense, because that is the visible part. Then it is January, and something has to happen. The people who thought about that in October have a much better January than the people who did not.And that is unfortunate, because the second half is the one that costs you if it is not covered. Anybody can hang lights in November. The questio

Dispatch · SEP 26

Lighting the Roofline: A Plain Guide to Lighting the Roof Edge|Why Roofline Lighting Works: The Short Version|Considering Roofline Lighting? What to Know First

The roof edge is the line your eye already follows From the street, what you actually see at night is an outline, and the roof edge draws that outline. Nothing else on the house gives you that much unbroken length, and nothing else has the sky behind it. Put light on it and the house has an edge again, which is most of what people mean when they say a house looks good lit.That is the reason permanent systems live at the roof edge, and why one line up there outperforms a doz

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Soffit Lighting: The Detail That Decides How It Looks|Why Permanent Lights Mount at the Eave and What It Means for Your House|Soffit, Eave, Fascia: A Homeowner's Glossary

A quick glossary Three words get used in every quote and almost nobody uses them in normal life. The fascia is the vertical board along the roof edge, the one the gutter hangs on. The soffit is the underside, the panel you see when you stand under the overhang and look up. The eave is the part of the roof that hangs out past the house.Knowing the words will not be on a test, though it helps when a quote uses them. So when the plan says fascia mounted, it is a location and n

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Custom Lighting Design, What You Should Be Handed Before You Sign|What Makes a Lighting Design Custom? Here Is How to Check|Why Custom Design Matters in Outdoor Lighting More Than the Hardware Does

Every quote uses the word custom Nobody advertises standard packages. It costs nothing to say and it is not a claim anybody https://evercrestlighting.com/permanent-lighting/ checks. What is worth checking is what the company hands you, since one of those produces paper and the other produces a number.That is the whole distinction, and it is worth holding onto while you compare quotes. A package starts with a number and works backward. A design is a plan for your property

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