Solar Patio Lights
You have an outdoor patio, but you don’t have an idea how to make it much wormer and well-decorated? Moreover, you don’t want to increase the electricity bill by installing regular lighting to your patio? If your answers were yes for these two question, then you should definitely look at solar patio lights.
What actually solar patio lights are, and why should you get these?
In just a few words: solar patio lights are self-charging lights using sunlight over daytime to illuminate over the nighttime. There are many advantages of purchasing solar lighting. The very important one is that it provides protection to your house, effectively discouraging thieves because of the visibility in your backyard during whole night. Next thing are savings that solar lighting brings to you. Did you know that each one solar patio light saves from 5 to 10 cents per night? Let’s make a simple calculation- in your patio you have 10 regular, wired, electric lights. Let’s take a 7 cents as an average of the cost of one whole-night lighting bulb. That makes 70 cents per night. And that gives you about $21 per month. Simple, isn’t it? And that’s just a beginning of advantages of solar patio lights. If earlier you have had regular lighting, you have to know how problematic the wire connection is. To drag the wire from home to other side of patio you must dig through all the grass which some time ago you carefully sow. Wouldn’t it be annoying? What about light over the table on which you and your invited friends are about to eat some BBQ- don’t you think the cable might be a bit disturbing?
Still not convinced? Solar lighting is environmentally friendly, just for the same reason why it is economically friendly to your pocket. Also, think about how impressive would it be to your friends and family members when you ask them to come over to have an evening meeting at your patio. Believe me- they would be very impressed.
Solar lighting is a hot topic now, no doubts about that. There are plenty of these on the market. What should you pay attention at most? Design for sure. It has to fit to look of your patio. If you have an oriental design of your backyard, you should be interested in oriental-look lighting, and so on. Second thing is brightness of shining. Some solar lights shines very poorly, and that’s why I would rather suggest to buy LED solar patio lights, than those with regular light bulbs. And of course price. Those who want better designed solars then ordinary ones, have to pay a bit more. Those who are less demanding, the pricing usually hesitates between $25 – $50 for package of 6 to 10 solar patio lights.
Installing solar patio lights is very simple. There are actually four steps that you should be following to during installation. Very important thing is to find places in your patio where sunlight breaks through during most of the day. It’s so important because batteries of solar lights must have enough time to charge. And that’s step number one. Second step is to find the most shaded places at night, and combine these with sunny places from step number one. 3rd step is to measure the distance between each spot where you want to place each solar light, in order to even illumination of your patio. When you already find and mark the best places to install lights, there’s only one thing left. Take your solar patio lights and hit it to the ground (or screw to the wall) where their places should be! I told you so- that’s as easy as pie!