Garden lighting around sleeper border

Question

My grassed garden is enclosed by sleepers (1 sleeper in height) which separate the grass and plant beds.
What options do I have for lighting around the border? I have solar lamps, but they are no good in winter.

Matthew · Accepted Answer

You can go for wired lights up and down lights would be perfect but instead of putting them to shine up and down put the on there side and have them shining left and right, that looks way better and the price of led are very cheap and long lasting, you could also go with spot lights built in too the sleeper that would be nice aswell just make sure you use ip65 for outside lighting👌

Lee · Answer

Do really need to see lay out to get 
Proper idea of requirements. 
But you could go LED colour changing 
spot lights .
Or 12 volt plug and play  5 spike lights ,pickings out different plants. 
Other option LED small flooding from behind 
Bushes and shrubs.

Silviu · Answer

Hi there . Another ideea to feed up some spike lights or any other lights you want to fix is to run  plastic conduit on the fence or even armoured cable to every each point of light which is much safer . In all this time the lights can be controled be a mechanical timer, fotocell.   Or other thing what you can do is to have a sollar panel which is feeding the lights , but is a bit more complicated .

George Aurel · Answer

The best option it's to add a new 10amp fuse at your consumer unit or to Pull another cable from first switch to feed the gardenia lights

Sammy · Answer

you would need to run an armoured cable from the fuseboard to the outside making sure its rcd protected to. then you can puttimer next to fuseboard for the lights. when you have the armoured cable in the floor bed you just daisy chain the cable for your lights.

Savy · Answer

You should consider installing a SELV circuit for garden lighting.

Mitch · Answer

Spike lights in the bed work well, either mains or low voltage. You can wire in a receiver allowing for a remote control to operate also if wanted. (That's what I have) Generally wired in swa but if burying the connections I would resin the joints to make waterproof and for impact protection. Collingwood do some great lights but on a budget tlc or electrical wholesaler would have plenty of options.

Darren · Answer

Solar lights will never give you what you need as they are not quite there yet the only option would be to run garden lights from mains powered cable.
The cheapest option would be to install an outdoor socket and then connect lights from there so you can use them as and when you need.

Michael · Answer

As with any other question on here its difficult to say without seeing it but...
I have seen some nice extra low voltage outside lights in Rexel. you basically have 1 power supply and then plug and play from there. Plus you can chop and change different lights. You may need an Electrician to install them.

Garden lighting around sleeper border

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