Lighting
Experienced Lighting Contractor in Atlanta
A dim kitchen or a dark driveway is fixable. As your lighting contractor in Atlanta, we’ll plan where each light goes before we cut a single hole.
Did you know?
A light bulb in a Livermore, California, fire station has been burning since 1901. It’s a hand-blown bulb, and it runs at only about 4 watts these days, but it’s still glowing more than 120 years after someone first switched it on.
Questions & Answers
FAQs About Lighting Contractor in Atlanta
Dimmers that flicker, warm or cool bulbs, and lighting the yard after dark.
The cost comes down to how many lights you want, what’s above the ceiling and where the switches go. Lights under an open attic are quicker to wire than lights with a finished room above them. Plaster ceilings take more care to cut than drywall. Cam’s Electric gives free estimates, so you’ll have a number first.
Wafer lights are thin LEDs that clip straight into the ceiling, so they fit where there’s no room for a can. Can lights have a metal housing with a separate bulb, which makes the bulb easy to change later. Both dim well with the right dimmer. For a ceiling with ducts or joists in the way, wafers are the simpler choice.
Go warmer in rooms where you relax and cooler in rooms where you work. On the box, that’s 2700K for living rooms and bedrooms, 3000K for kitchens and baths, and 4000K or more for a garage or shop. Keep every bulb in a room the same so they don’t clash, and check lumens for brightness, since kelvins only describe color.
Almost always, it’s the dimmer. Older dimmer switches were made for incandescent bulbs and don’t get along with LEDs. A dimmer made for LEDs fixes it, and Cam’s Electric can swap one in for you. If your lights flicker where there’s no dimmer at all, that’s wiring, and it needs a look.
We check the box in the ceiling. A regular light box isn’t built to hold a heavy chandelier or a spinning fan, and plenty of older ones aren’t. We put in a rated box or a brace between the joists first so nothing works loose. One customer wrote that Cam “installed a chandelier for me quickly and efficiently.” We hang chandeliers, pendant lights and ceiling fans across Atlanta.
You might. In Atlanta’s historic districts, like Inman Park, Atkins Park and part of Druid Hills, changes to the outside of a house go through design review. That can include light fixtures you can see from the street, so check before you buy them. We’ll plan the placement with that in mind.
Use both, in different spots. Motion sensor floodlights stay off until something moves, which suits a driveway or a side yard. Dusk to dawn fixtures use a photocell to give a steady, softer glow all night, which suits a porch or a walkway. Under Atlanta’s heavy shade, a dusk to dawn light may come on early, and that’s normal.
Low voltage landscape lights run off a small transformer that plugs into an outdoor GFCI outlet and steps the power down. Thin cable then runs to each light just under the surface. On a long run, the lights at the far end can look dim unless it’s planned right. Cam’s Electric lays out the runs so every fixture is the same brightness.
Yes. Hardwired lights run off a wall switch, so there are no cords along your backsplash. The easy time is during a kitchen remodel. In a finished kitchen, we can often feed the wire through the cabinets with very little patching.
Usually, with one thing to watch for. The wire in older ceiling boxes can be brittle from decades of heat off old bulbs, and it can crack when it’s bent. That turns up a lot in Atlanta’s prewar houses. Cam’s Electric checks the wire and the box before the new fixture goes up and repairs what’s damaged.
