time to Add Wiring to Your Outdoor Masonry
You have beautiful stone walls, pillars, and other stone structures at the entrance of your home or building. Have you thought about adding electricity to them? Adding lights and other features to your stone pillars is a smart idea that will save you time, money, and headaches while improving your security. Here are the top five reasons to add wiring to your stone entrance.
Five Reasons to Wire Your Stone Pillars
1. Increase Security
When people drive past your house, does it look gloomy? Can they see it at all? Most residential properties could use additional lighting for the sake of security. Your stone entryway is a good place to start.
Begin with lighting fixtures that attach to the top of each pillar or use fixtures you place in a hollowed-out part of the stonework. Continue the lighting with flush lights placed on the ground. Space the lights at staggered intervals to avoid looking like an airport runway. If your house number is on the pillar, add illumination so people can read it from the street.
At your commercial property, security is just as important. Add extra lighting to the driveway entrance and front door to make visitors to your property feel safer. Don’t forget floodlighting for your parking areas. You can mount the floodlights right on your entry pillars.
2. Upgrade Your Entryway
Lighting is more than just functional. A well-planned outdoor lighting scheme can transform the way your house looks. Current lighting trends aim for a subtle wash of light rather than bright floodlights. You should have enough lighting to make your home safe, but it should be a soft, subtle light that gives off a welcoming glow.
The lighting on your stone pillars can have that same subtle, elegant look while still ensuring your entrance is bright enough to be safe.
3. Integrate With Your Smart System
Did you install a smart system at your home or business? Include the lighting from your stone pillars in your smart lighting scheme.
Schedule the lights to turn off or on at certain times. Change the brightness levels according to the time of day or other criteria. You can even change the lighting color to celebrate the seasons or show your support for a local team. With LED lights, your creative options are endless.
You can change the lights, turn them on and otherwise control them from a single device at your home or office. Get the convenience of smart automation for every light in your home or business.
4. Make It Automatic
Add an automatic gate to your stone entryway for the ultimate in convenience and security. If your stone pillars are the entry of a fence, wall, or other security structure, add an automatic gate to get complete access control.
You can add sliding gates or swinging gates to your entryway. Once your electrical panel is in, you can control the gate from safely inside your home or office. Many electric gates come with a battery or solar backup.
An automatic gate is an excellent way to bolster your security at home or on a commercial property. Adding communication systems gives you another layer of protection.
5. Add a Gate Intercom System
Do you want to communicate with everyone who approaches your gate? You can program a gate intercom system for video camera interaction that gives you both audio and visual communication.
You can also choose voice-only interaction, wireless communication, cell phone communication, and many other forms of interaction. You can talk on an intercom, a cell phone, a landline, your smartphone, or a tablet.
Your wired or wireless intercom system will monitor everyone who comes to your gate. You can open it without having to leave your home or office.
Trust SESCOS for All Your Outdoor Wiring Needs
When you decide to add lights, cameras, and action to your outdoor masonry, make the right call with SESCOS. Our expert technicians will get you wired quickly and safely. The days are long now, but they’ll start getting dark quickly as soon as summer is over. Keep your home or business brightly lit all year.