Yard Lights
Landscape Lighting Design
Twelve volts, buried right, lit for years.
Buried Cable
Buried Cable and Sealed Joints
Landscape lighting rarely fails at the fixture. It fails at a wire nut buried in wet soil, quietly rotting through one winter. We use direct burial connectors and lay the cable in at a proper depth below.
- Direct burial connectors on every joint
- Cable trenched below the mower line
- Transformer sized with room spare
- Voltage drop checked on long runs
- Hub wiring instead of daisy chains
Path Lamps
Path, Uplight and Wash
- Path lights along the walk
- Uplights on trees and stone
- Wash across the facade
- Brass and copper, not plastic
- Step and deck lights fitted
How To Get Started
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STEP 1
Call or Request Service
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STEP 2
Get Inspection & Quote
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STEP 3
Professional Service Delivery
We complete the work safely, efficiently, and to your complete satisfaction
Why Choose Schumann Electric
Built on Experience & Trust
Our numbers reflect our commitment to quality service and customer satisfaction.
25+
Years of Experience
Decades of hands-on electrical expertise
5K+
Projects Completed
Successful residential electrical projects
2.5K+
Satisfied Customers
Hundreds of happy clients
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A+
Industry Recognition
Trusted name known for quality and reliability
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What Our Clients Say
Hear from customers who trust us for reliable, professional electrical services.
Michael Thompson
Homeowner | Philadelphia, PA
Schumann Electric transformed our outdated electrical system. The team was professional, efficient, and went above and beyond to ensure everything was perfect. Highly recommend!
Lesley Skimins
Homeowner | Philadelphia, PA
I had a great experience with Tom and his partner. They were professional, timely, responsive, and helped quickly switch out some circuit breakers that continued to trip. They also added in surge protection to mitigate power glitches that are common to my area.
Amanda Marsteller
Homeowner | Philadelphia, PA
We had an excellent experience with Tom’s technician who installed 2 brand new ceiling fans in our house as well as a new lighting fixture in our kitchen. He was fast yet thorough and made sure we were completely satisfied with the work before leaving, offering to handle anything else we needed.
Brian Brown
Homeowner | Philadelphia, PA
Very Good Electrician – I had Schumann Electric out now I think for the 4th time in the past couple years. I will not use anyone else. This time it was to wire up our new hot tub. They are always on time and the job was completed as agreed.
Where Yard Lights Run Along a Front Path
Along the front walk, up the trees, across stone, and out to the mailbox.
When Yard Lights Die at a Wet Buried Joint
Water finds a twisted splice within a season. Every joint we bury is a gel-filled connector rated for the wet ground.
Who Lights a Yard- Households That Get In Long After Sunset Falls
Owners who leave in the dark and return in it. Anyone whose front walk disappears at five. Gardens worth looking at from the kitchen window at night.
What Twelve Volts Brings to a Quiet Garden
- A walk you can see at night
- A garden you can use after dark
- No joint left to rot in the soil
Your Landscaping Works All Day. Let It Work Nights.
One evening design visit shows you exactly what your property could become.
About Schumann Electric
Sculptors of Light and Shadow
Great exterior lighting is restraint: knowing what to light and what to leave dark.
Schumann Electric has designed and installed landscape lighting across Chester County for more than 25 years, learning that the best systems whisper rather than shout. We bury wiring properly below frost concerns, choose fixtures that survive our winters, and aim every light after dark until the effect looks effortless. Owner-led design, written proposals, and full Pennsylvania licensing accompany every nightscape we create.
Landscape Asks
Frequently Asked Questions
How much it costs, how deep it goes, how long it lasts.
Is low voltage lighting cheap to run each night?
Pennies. A full front garden on LED draws less than a single old porch bulb, and the transformer only works while the timer says so. Running cost is the last worry anyone has after the first year. Nobody mentions it again after that.
Do the cables need burying deep under the lawn?
Six inches clears a spade and a mower, and that is where ours sit. Under a planting bed we go deeper still, because that soil gets turned. Cable left lying under mulch is the reason so many systems die young in this county.
Can more lights be added to the system later?
That is why we size the transformer with spare capacity and wire in hubs rather than one long chain. Adding a pair of uplights next spring means a short cable run and an hour of work, not a rebuild of the whole run.
Will these lights last through a hard PA winter?
Brass and copper do, and they look better as they age. Plastic goes brittle after three or four hard freezes and the lens clouds over. We fit metal because replacing cheap fittings twice costs more than buying solid ones once at the outset.
How many lights does a front garden usually need?
Fewer than most people expect. Six to ten across a typical front does all the work, because low voltage lighting reads best when it picks out a few features rather than flooding the whole plot evenly. Restraint is what reads as real taste.
Are solar path lights worth it instead of wired?
They are honest about what they are, which is temporary. Output fades away by midwinter, the batteries last two seasons at best, and the heads tilt as the ground moves. A wired system costs more once and then stops asking anything of you.