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Swimming Pool Lighting
Filed Under Safety, Accessories, Construction & Designs
Aside from good maintenance, the ability to enjoy a pool can also depend on swimming pool lighting. This is because a pool’s design and aesthetics contributes to its use and enjoyment. One way to enhance a pool’s design is with swimming pool lights. As you’ll soon learn, swimming pool lighting serves a critical purpose during early evening or late night dips, (okay, and maybe just to gently light a relaxing BBQ dinner or small social gathering). So this page is going to introduce some practical advice for one of the most visually entertaining experiences you could ever provide.
Introduce Yourself to an Unlikely Couple
Since we’re dealing with swimming pools, there’s water involved. Since water and electricity make deadly bedfellows, we need to take special care in selecting high-quality waterproofed materials and equipment (emphasis on waterproofed!). The lighting system that you choose must meet safety codes and depending on your preferred setting, it may require professional installation.
Take the Easy Route
Should you decide to install an inexpensive yet fun set-up yourself, you can opt for a low-voltage (less hazardous) external lighting system. Setting up this kind of arrangement is a simple matter of installing a transformer and then planting the bottom stems of floodlights into the ground. Or it could be a simple matter of hanging small streetlight-style lamps along a fence. As a harmless way to light up a pool, these particular swimming pool lights are easily removed, allowing you to change the look and feel of your environment as many times as you like.
The alternative would be to hire a professional electrician who’ll want to bury waterproofed pipes in your yard. Conforming to city safety codes, the 120-volt lighting system that requires this much work will be an expensive installation!
Fixture Ideas
Regardless of what kind of swimming pool light fixture you use (the post cap light, three-tiered path, or solar light), you must understand that it’s the placement of these lights that creates ambiance. The locations of your lights will serve as beacons and they’ll call attention to wherever they’re placed. Although lighting up the entrance, stairway, or pathway to a pool is more of a functional approach, you could arrange the lights at the entrance, stairway, or pathway in a unique pattern (zigzagged, curved, etc.) to emphasize creativity and safety at the same time.
Experiment with easy to remove fixtures and be sure to arrange wires out of the path of pool users. Covering wires with wood chips or other elements of the environment (leaves, pebbles, etc.) make a swimming pool lighting arrangement even more attractive.
I cannot agree more on the importance of lighting on a swimming pool, a nice lighting set up can enhance your pool tremendously. We have found that Fiber Optic pool lighting allows you to create a whole back yard lighting environment to include underwater pool lights, perimeter lighting, pathway lighting, waterfalls and up lighting of trees and shrubs. The neat thing about fiber optics is that you can tie all the lights together so that they are all synchronized and changing color in unison. You may view how the fiber optics work here http://www.inyopools.com/fiber_optics_answers.aspx Another popular trend in pool lighting is LED lighting which is great if you just want to do underwater lighting. LED lights last 50,000 - 100,000 hours and cost very little to operate.