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Why Choosing LED Lighting Makes Sense When Building a Dream Home, House Addition, or Remodeling

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When actually building your dream home, the addition you’ve always wanted, or remodeling the home you love into the home you’ve dreamed of, there’s always a tension. It’s the tension between desire and budget. You want to incorporate the best, most advanced, longest-lasting material available, but the project has to remain on budget. There is one area, however, in which the most advanced, efficient, and longest-lasting technology is also the most financially sound choice—LED lighting. When incorporating LED technology into your project, the only tension you’ll face is whether to use the T5 or T8 LED tube lighting in your new garage. Lighting for the House, Garage, and Outbuildings Speaking of lighting in the new garage: One of the reasons for the popularity of LED lighting technology is its versatility. The individual light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that produce the light are extremely small. That allows LED lights to be engineered as bulbs, tubes, spotlights, street
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Lighting Tips for Building and Outfitting a Work Shed

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There are the repairers and restorers, the woodworkers, and the artists. There are amateur carpenters, mechanics, metal-workers, engineers, and a world of other hobbyists, builders, and tinkerers. For any of them, their workshop is a sanctuary. But sometimes their hobbies and projects can outgrow the spare room or basement workspace that had served as the workshop. When it’s time to build a dedicated work shed, it’s essential to plan for enough light to work by. Whether it’s through windows, skylights, LED tube lights , or some combination of them, ensure your workspace isn’t botched by bad lighting. Shed vs. Work Shed A shed and a work shed are different structures for different purposes. A work shed is an outbuilding, or sometimes an attached, isolated space, meant to serve as a workshop. A shed, on the other hand, is normally just for storage. The optimal workshop requires bright, focused lighting, and electrical outlets for power tools, fans, heaters, and other
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4 Reasons to Replace Your Convenience Store Lights with LED Tube Lights

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For decades, fluorescent tubes were the go-to lighting choice for convenience stores (c-stores) due to their longer life and lower operating cost compared to traditional incandescent bulbs. There are some drawbacks to fluorescents, however, and as a business owner reducing cost has to be weighed against customer satisfaction. Thankfully, recent innovations in lighting technology have provided c-store owners with a more efficient option that customers tend to prefer—LED tube lighting. Consider the following four reasons why you should replace your fluorescent tube lights with LED tubes. LED Tubes are More Efficient and Have Longer Lifespans C-stores tend to have extended hours, and they’re often open 24-hours. That means your lights are virtually never off, making lifespan and efficiency exceedingly important. For instance, a T5 LED bulb —a 4 foot tube—such as the T5/T8 LED Tube Light 4ftfrom LED provider Hyperikon, offers the same high-output performance of comparable flu
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How to Incorporate LED Lights Inside Your Grocery Store

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Lighting is an essential aspect of any store or business regardless of what you’re selling. It not only helps customers see the products for sale and navigate the store with ease, but your lighting could also be your best (not to mention the most cost-effective) sales tool. In grocery stores, the lighting matters even more as you want the food to look appetizing to customers, and there’s more to it than just having bright LED tube lights throughout the store.   Let’s take a look at a few ways to incorporate LED lighting inside and outside your grocery store for maximum effect. Make Produce Look Its Best When buying fruits and vegetables, customers care more about their appearance than perhaps any other product in the store. Whether they’re serving a fruit platter at their upcoming party or picking up berries for their morning smoothies, since fruit and many veggies are often served fresh and at their best, they need to look the part. Bad lighting can ruin a cus
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How to Convince Your Commercial Customers That Indoor LED Lights Are Worth the Investment

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Winning new contracts with large commercial facilities like manufacturing businesses, warehouses, and even office buildings can be the bread and butter for commercial electricians. With so many lighting fixtures and bulbs to install, just one years-long project can help keep a company in business. One way that commercial electricians can improve their services is by offering and installing LED lighting products. However, it’s no secret that outfitting an entire building with LED lights as opposed to less energy-efficient lighting options typically comes with a higher up-front investment, which might give some clients sticker shock. But in the end, upgrading or OEM-installing LED bulbs and fixtures can help your clients in a variety of ways, and it might be easier than you think to convince them to make the investment. Better Energy Efficiency One of the premier advantages of going with LED lights over other types is that they use less energy, which is not only goo
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What to Look for in Your LED Lighting Provider

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So, you’ve decided that it’s time to go the LED lighting route for the building you manage. It’s a wise choice, as LED lighting solutions are far more efficient, brighter, and offer a variety of distinctive benefits over other lighting options. Now that you’ve decided the type of lighting you’re installing, the next hardest choice is determining the provider you’ll spend your money on. For many, it's easy to assume that all LED manufacturers are the same, but when investing a significant sum in outfitting an entire office building with LED tube lights , where you spend your money matters. Here’s what you need to look for as you shop around for an LED lighting provider to do business with. Efficiency, Innovation, and Selection One of the differentiating factors of LED lighting that separates it from traditional lighting types is the efficiency that it brings. Not only do LED bulbs and tubes provide a higher quality of light, but LED lighting can also save busine
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Upgrade the Interior of Your Home with LED Recessed Lighting

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When designing the interior décor of a home, many people are particular about every detail from the paint color to certain features like a fireplace, the furniture, and the art on the walls. While these aspects of interior design are often among the most standout features that guests notice when coming to visit, without the proper lighting, they won’t stand out as well as they could. One option that many homeowners are becoming increasingly attracted to is recessed lighting. Whether you’re going through renovations or building your new home, here are a few reasons why so many people prefer recessed lighting, along with some things to consider when choosing and placing them. Lighting Is Décor Just as pictures on the wall and sculptures on the end tables are attractive to look at, the right lighting can bring an entire room together and function as a valuable piece of interior décor. Starting with the mindset that lighting is a focal point will help you when it come
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