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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Solla 100W LED Flood Lights for the Patio

Solla 100W LED Flood Lights Outdoor Security Lights, Super Bright Floodlight Waterproof LED Spotlights Wall Lamp,8600 LM,Daylight White (5500-6500K),480LEDs Premium quality: Solla flood light adopts premium waterproof EPISTAR Chip--Energy efficient (save over 80% on electricity bill), High brightness and Full wattage; Made of high efficiency aluminum body with a tempered glass for impact resistance. Features: This led flood light comes with a yoke-style arm can be positioned in almost any angle and a variety of application settings. And the fixture is designed with a fin type heat sink, which means it acts like a radiator to dissipate heat.120° wider angle beam: Our led flood light provides super bright, shadow-free and wide beam distribution light for general purpose indoor outdoor flood lighting. VOLTAGE: 110V. WIRE CONNECTION WAY: Blue (White),Red/Brown (Black), Yellow/Green (Ground).Extremely long life span reduces re-lamp frequency And save money; Lifetime is more than 50,000 hours and our led flood light comes with a 24 month unlimited warranty.IP65 Waterproof rate: The flood light interfaces as well as its LED EPISTAR Chip are embedded rubber ring which make this flood light perfect for every environment and weather condition; And needn't worry about water seepage lead to quit working. Please note that the light can't be soaked in the water.

 





What to consider when planning to renovate your backyard

The planning, layout and construction of a new outdoor space is what you want it to be. Consider this. Do you plan on living at that home forever? Well if that is the case, make it your paradise and oasis. A place where you can go to get away from everything and relax whether in the sun or next to the fire pit. However it isn't as easy as that. Here is a list of things to consider when planning the outdoor space and patio.



1. What is my budget? Well to tell you the truth, my budget was 1/2 of my final cost. Things I had planned on doing when visualized and saw what was out there just wasn't attractive enough for me and If i am going to live in my home till I die, you bet i am going all the way.
2. How much square footage are you going to use?
3. What material are you going to use for the patio floor? This is important as bricks, pavers, natural stone including bluestone all vary in their price.
4. Know what types of fuel and or electric/cables you want to run as you will probably be digging trenches to lay gas, electric lines. You can never have too many conduits for electricity down the road. We plan on and know we want a pool so we ran conduit ahead of time. We also know we are having a pavilion so we ran electric to the corners and cat 6 cable.
5. Are you planning on having a firepit? If so decide what type of fuel source you will use, ignition type and the shape. You can go with natural gas or propane and you can have remote controlled pilot, manual switch or match.
6. Decide on if you will have an outdoor kitchen and the different components you will have. For example if you are thinking of putting a grill built in are you going to have infrared, rotisserie? and how big is your grille going to be? What material will you build the frame out of? Typically people use cinder blocks, pressure treated pine and steel with cutouts. The kitchen and appliances itself can run 12-20,000 alone as appliances are expensive and so is the labor .
7 Are you going to have special lighting in your patio? Low voltage LED lighting, smart lights are just some to consider.










8. What about smart outlets? I love smart outlets and installed at least 4 of them so I can control them from my android phone.
9. I don't know about you but my outdoor kitchen is going to have seating for 5 at the bar and an outdoor HDTV LED for watching games and more. I will run HDMI over CAT 6. Some of this may seem like overkill but as I said, if you do it, do it right.
10. Structures. Are you planning on having some shade? Perhaps you want a pergola or pavilion. Pavilion have more in terms of covering and keeping from the elements.
11. Sound: sound is critical especially when entertaining and you want to be able to control the music from your phone as well as the volume. Check out my videos on Zoned Audio system and the bose outdoor speakers.





Zoned Audio and how to do it with Bose



This video takes you step by step from running speaker wire from your patio to your amplifier and zoned audio system to hooking up your Apple Airport Express for streaming audio from any smart phone including android and apple devices and laptops/tablets to your speakers and configuring the airport express for your home zoned audio system.

This video is long, extensive and fast forward to the end if you wish just to see how 1 speaker sounds.

We give shout out to the following companies
1. TuneBlade
2. Dayton Audio
3. Bose
4. DoubleTwist
5. CloudPlayer 
6. Veridian Group