Maintenance & Repair Posts
If you have a professionally installed landscape lighting system, one of its most important components is the transformer. Although it's often tucked away on the side of your home [...]
Spring is finally here and with that comes more time spent outdoors, enjoying your lighting system. It is vital to learn how to keep your system running properly throughout [...]
Landscape lighting provides beauty, security, safety, and, as warmer weather arrives, continued outdoor enjoyment after dusk. It’s an important aspect of the home. […]
As the seasons shift from summer to fall and winter to spring, the sun begins to set earlier or later into the evening. You might be too familiar with [...]
At McKay Landscape Lighting, our community, clients, partners, and employees are very important to us. We have implemented safeguards, listed below, and we will continue operations as we closely [...]
It will start getting darker later in the evenings as we approach spring and daylight savings time begins. For homeowners with a low-voltage landscape lighting system, it’s a good [...]
While it may seem as though a lightbulb is a lightbulb, there are some factors to take into consideration before you swap your halogen landscape lighting bulbs with LED. [...]
Snow in April?! Hopefully, this is the last weekend we’ll see snow in the forecast until next year. In anticipation of Omaha’s warm days ahead, we wanted to share [...]
If you’re like most busy homeowners, the last thing you want to do is remember to turn your landscape lights on every night and off every morning. Lucky, you [...]
It’s a good idea to discuss future maintenance services and options before having your outdoor lighting installed. Maintenance is essential to the continued beauty and functionality of a system [...]
Mulching has its advantages. It’s beneficial to the plant material and aesthetically pleasing. But, mulching can sometimes cause problems to a landscape lighting system. Today we wanted to address [...]
Steve is a homeowner and has lived in his neighborhood approximately 16 years now. During his time there, he has served in various capacities on the Home Owners Association [...]
A superior product is always the sum of its parts. Landscape lighting systems are no different. At McKay Landscape Lighting, we only use high quality parts and fixtures when installing [...]
Technology has changed a lot in the past twenty years. Did you know that the first outdoor fixtures were developed from mayonnaise jars, painted coffee and fruit juice cans, [...]
In our previous Ask McKay post we discussed tips for getting started with landscape lighting. For today’s post, I talked to our installation technician, Keith, to help me answer [...]
Grilling season is upon us since I can already smell the barbecues firing up. This means that we will be outside more, especially in the evenings. It’s a great time to have [...]
Last week we talked about getting started with landscape lighting and how you can always add more layers of lighting as you need or want later on. This week [...]
It’s time to spring forward. To be on time for your Sunday’s activities, remember to turn your clocks forward one hour before going to bed. While you are changing [...]
Fixtures are the only part of the system that should be visible during the day and it is certainly important that they are installed correctly and look great. Wires [...]
(An example of a poorly installed transformer). The transformer is probably the most important part of any landscape lighting system and is often one of the most significant issues [...]
It may not fully feel like it yet, but spring is officially here! With temperatures rising and the days lasting longer, we will finally be spending more time outside. [...]
Thanks to your votes, McKay Lighting received the Best of Omaha for 2013! We are pleased to share this news with all of our followers and supporters, especially all [...]
Outdoor lighting service is just as important in the winter as it is during the other months of the year. Many may think of winter as a time when [...]
