Why You Should Consider LED Bollards As an Aspect of Garden lighting
The phrase LED Bollards sounds like the punch line to a smutty joke, doesn’t it? Nothing could be further from the truth. LED bollards are, in fact, worthy of serious consideration when it comes to planning your garden lighting scheme.
The first thing you must do is cast all thoughts of white and yellow plastic street furniture bollards from your mind, they’re not pretty and they have no place in your garden. The garden bollards we’re talking about here are stylish and are available in gleaming wood, sleek stainless steel, copper, and all manner of other beautiful materials.
Garden bollards are designed to help you and your visitors see where you’re going and they are particularly useful along driveways or illuminating the edge of lakes and ponds. They are also good for providing unobtrusive, low level light in the area of garden benches or other seating or entertaining areas of your outside space.
Other than the contribution that their colored light can make to your garden lighting scheme, the advantages of LED bollards are strictly functional:
· Because LED lamps are extremely directional, its use in bollards aids their functionality in signposting hazards. Just the hazard will be illuminated, rather than the entire area.
· LED lamps do not get hot to the touch, an important factor considering that bollard lamps are hand height, and are also accessible to children. Nobody will burn their fingers on these bollards.
· LED lamps last for 44 years at 6 hours use per day.
· LED lamps cost a fraction of the cost of traditional lamps to run.
So in summary, LED bollards are economic to run, kind to the environment, and won’t need replacing for many years, 11 years to be exact if they are on for 12 hours a day. LED bollards are worth their weight in gold, and yes, that is an attempt at a smutty joke!
If you haven’t yet considered the benefits of LED bollards as an element of your garden lighting scheme, perhaps its time you did.
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The Environmental and Economic Advantages of LED Garden lighting
LED might be the lighting buzzword of the moment, but LEDs aren’t exactly new, you will find LEDs in the digital clock on your microwave, in your television remote control, in your alarm clock, they are, in fact, everywhere. What is new(ish) is the technology that allows LEDs to be used for domestic and garden lighting.
An LED is a light emitting diode, which is a solid state conductor, working on the attraction of opposites. Two materials are placed either side of a chemical, one of the materials is electron rich and the other is short of electrons; when power is supplied, the material that needs electrons takes them from the electron rich material, and then there was light! The composition of the chemical in between the two materials determines the colour of the light emitted.
LED lighting, and that includes LED garden lighting, beats other sources of artificial light hands down, and here’s why:
· LEDs do not contain mercury
· LEDs have an extremely long life (11 years at 12 hours per day)
· LEDs cost 80% less to run than other light sources
· LEDs are cool to the touch and, therefore, safer at low levels
· LEDs do not present a fire risk, because they are cool to the touch
· LEDs produce colored light without the use of a filter
· LEDs produce directional light, it goes where you need it and nowhere else
What more evidence do you need, colored lights with a long life that won’t burn little fingers and that don’t cost the earth or a fortune to run, LED garden lighting is the only sensible choice.
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The Ideal Way to Illuminate Small Spaces is With Bulkhead Lights
So are bulkhead lights the best way to light up small spaces? Well, of course, yes! After all, bulkhead lights got their name from the partitions on board ship, where they were used to illuminate the smallest of small spaces! That is also the reason why most bulkhead lights are round, it is far easier to get something round into a small space than something angular. But what have ex-ship lights got to do with garden lighting?
Think of small spaces like garden sheds, coal stores, bin stores, compost boxes, and small areas by the back gate and you will quickly realise that bulkhead lights really do have a place in your garden lighting arsenal. You might be surprised to discover that the traditional bulkhead light design, the circle with crossbars, has been declared a design icon!
Because of this ability to slip into small, confined spaces, bulkhead lights make a superb addition to your home security lighting; for instance, fix a bulkhead light to the outside of your garden shed, add a PIR sensor and you will never approach the shed in darkness again (unless you want to, of course; least said, soonest mended!).
Illuminate your bin store or compost boxes to make sure you put the right waste in the correct bin, keeping your local council and your vegetables happy! The possibilities are endless, and because they can be mounted on outside walls, ceilings or posts, they’re versatile too.
Keep your garden all ‘ship-shape and Bristol fashion’ with a bulkhead light or two, you will probably be very glad you did!
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