We had a new patio laid in autumn and asked Mike to do the lighting to match. He worked out the scheme with me, sketched where each fitting would go, and cabled everything underground so there's nothing visible during the day. The sunset timer is set up on my phone now and the garden is genuinely beautiful in the evenings. Couldn't be happier.
Garden lighting scheme, Mollington
Lisa wanted her new patio and garden path properly lit, on a timer that came on at sunset and dimmed by 11pm.
Lisa had a new patio laid in autumn and decided the garden deserved proper lighting to match. The brief: path lights down to the patio, four uplights on the trees at the back, two wash lights on the rear of the house, all on a timer that came on at sunset and dimmed to 30% from 10pm onwards.
We ran a dedicated 6A garden circuit from the consumer unit through the back wall into a weatherproof junction box. From there, 1.5mm SWA cable buried 600mm deep (below frost depth) out to each fitting position. Every fitting is IP65, every connection is in an IP65 junction box, every fitting is on its own RCBO at the consumer unit.
Control is via a Lightwave Smart Series dimmer with a sunset/sunrise schedule tied to Lisa's postcode. She can override it from her phone but mostly it just does its thing.
First proper evening she had it on, she sent us a photo of the patio. It looks the part.
Materials & specifications
- Cable
- 1.5mm SWA, buried 600mm depth
- Path lights
- 6 × Collingwood ML01 deck lights, IP65, 2700K
- Tree uplights
- 4 × Collingwood XT3 IP65 spike-mounted uplights
- Wash lights
- 2 × Hispec HSLEDFL20 20W floods, dusk-to-dawn
- Control
- Lightwave Smart Series dimmer with location schedule
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