O/side lighting - LED wall or floodlight suggestions
Discussion
In our last home we had a few of the flat 'panel' type LED floodlights and LED patio lights. for me the patio lights were a pain, umpteen got broken when dogs/people accidently bashed them.
The floods were great, spec'd to illuminate enough of the patio to sit seat/socialise without being blinded or with too much light, and with enough 'ooomph' to show off a bit of the garden.
Just bought our next home; More modern and less easy to 'hide' floodlights, all that's there now for the patio ( 25x20ft) is 1 o/side wall lantern.
Mrs is dead against floods 'too unsightly'...so to the folks here: any ideas for wall mounted lights which would not blind someone sitting looking in that direction, and which would be enough to sit around the table without feeling like one was at a seance!
have been searching to see whether any manufacturer makes a more appealing high output/flood type light, but have come up empty - hoping you folks might have seen/used something that could work for us...
cheers
The floods were great, spec'd to illuminate enough of the patio to sit seat/socialise without being blinded or with too much light, and with enough 'ooomph' to show off a bit of the garden.
Just bought our next home; More modern and less easy to 'hide' floodlights, all that's there now for the patio ( 25x20ft) is 1 o/side wall lantern.
Mrs is dead against floods 'too unsightly'...so to the folks here: any ideas for wall mounted lights which would not blind someone sitting looking in that direction, and which would be enough to sit around the table without feeling like one was at a seance!
have been searching to see whether any manufacturer makes a more appealing high output/flood type light, but have come up empty - hoping you folks might have seen/used something that could work for us...
cheers
Both have good aspects, and it depends where you want a lot of light.
I've got a flood light that's 5000 lumens on the front of my garage and 2 more decorative lights, each around 2000 lumens output.
All of them are PIR (Passive infrared) sensing, and after some setup, have been decent enough.
The biggest thing about these is they actually spooked some burglars we've had in the last few weeks (3 occurrences over 2 nights in the past month) which were caught on video going right across my front drive and got spooked by the lights turning on and lighting them up like a Christmas tree.
Unfortunately they went across to my neighbor's drive and pinched stuff out of his van as it was in a dark corner. The other was a shed in someone's back garden which had a flood light there working, but the night of the break in, it'd been turned off.
TLDR version is, have lights round the house, and floodlights in key locations are a good deterrent for thieving pricks.
Maybe put it to your other half like that.
I've got a flood light that's 5000 lumens on the front of my garage and 2 more decorative lights, each around 2000 lumens output.
All of them are PIR (Passive infrared) sensing, and after some setup, have been decent enough.
The biggest thing about these is they actually spooked some burglars we've had in the last few weeks (3 occurrences over 2 nights in the past month) which were caught on video going right across my front drive and got spooked by the lights turning on and lighting them up like a Christmas tree.
Unfortunately they went across to my neighbor's drive and pinched stuff out of his van as it was in a dark corner. The other was a shed in someone's back garden which had a flood light there working, but the night of the break in, it'd been turned off.
TLDR version is, have lights round the house, and floodlights in key locations are a good deterrent for thieving pricks.
Maybe put it to your other half like that.
These cast a decent light, no glare looking at them.
https://www.gardentrading.co.uk/products/st-ives-m...
https://www.gardentrading.co.uk/products/st-ives-m...
Belated reply but we put a couple of these outside on our new orangery - seem to be coping with the weather okay.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0754NK57J
The electrician originally suggested some similar ones that were made in the UK (IIRC) but about £300 each!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0754NK57J
The electrician originally suggested some similar ones that were made in the UK (IIRC) but about £300 each!
We moved 6 weeks back and coming to winter its been my job to sort the outside lighting out.
Front we have 2 x pir wall lights and 1 x pir floodlight
Rear 2 x wall lights and 2 x pir floodlights
I got these for the rear floodlights that run off a serpate pir, crazy bright but light up half of the garden and good for security -
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ankishi-Floodlight-Waterp...
The old rear wall lights i didnt like the style so replaced them with these -
https://www.toolstation.com/lutec-cate-wall-light-...
I have this to fit to the front where my vans parked -
https://www.toolstation.com/v-tac-ip65-led-pir-sen...
im just on the lookout for some nice lantern style pir lights for the front and think ive finished.
I would recommend the toolstation wall lights though, i added these bulbs 8w and 1030lm, bright but a nice warm white to sit around.
https://www.toolstation.com/led-filament-gls-lamp/...
Heres the rear before.
Front we have 2 x pir wall lights and 1 x pir floodlight
Rear 2 x wall lights and 2 x pir floodlights
I got these for the rear floodlights that run off a serpate pir, crazy bright but light up half of the garden and good for security -
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ankishi-Floodlight-Waterp...
The old rear wall lights i didnt like the style so replaced them with these -
https://www.toolstation.com/lutec-cate-wall-light-...
I have this to fit to the front where my vans parked -
https://www.toolstation.com/v-tac-ip65-led-pir-sen...
im just on the lookout for some nice lantern style pir lights for the front and think ive finished.
I would recommend the toolstation wall lights though, i added these bulbs 8w and 1030lm, bright but a nice warm white to sit around.
https://www.toolstation.com/led-filament-gls-lamp/...
Heres the rear before.
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