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Marking Placement and Drilling Initial Holes

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How NOT to Install Landscape lighting -Beginner mistakes

What happens here

Begin by determining the placement of the in-lite lights. Initially, the lights were mistakenly placed on the horizontal tread surface of the deck steps. To install, use a DeWalt cordless drill equipped with a large drill bit (approximately 1.5 inches in diameter, potentially a self-feed or specialized bit for composite decking) to create holes in the chosen locations on the deck. The plan involves placing lights along several sections of the deck stairs.

Goal: Prepare deck steps for light installation by drilling holes.

Tools and materials

  • DeWalt Cordless Drill DeWalt — Drilling holes into the deck steps for the lights
  • Drill Bit — Creating appropriately sized holes for the in-lite lights
  • In-lite Lights in-lite — Providing illumination for the deck steps

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some landscape lighting so let's show them how easy this job is so we've got four lights right here and these are in light lights these are seriously high high quality one of the things I'm gonna recommend you guys do whether you use in light or use somebody else use good lights don't be one of these boxes is where you're gonna put the lights in the only problem I see with that is they should be boom boom boom boom like oh yeah yeah yes now you got it right does that make more sense and then we've got the two big mistakes we make today are in placement and then the actual connection method and we make the corrections in this video but before I felt real comfortable releasing this thing I wanted to see how well this system would weather a harsh Minnesota winter so we actually did this install back in January when I waited about six months before I was willing to release this video to you guys to make sure that my didn't screw more things up than I thought likes call all around the perimeter here I think we roll with that so then we got a transformer right Frankie so one transformer which plugs in and then the wiring these guys from in like my experience with them is they'll send you everything you need we got to understand what you need ahead of time but just just good stuff so that's the transformer yeah and it's literally that as a plug-and-play transformer so you guys are seeing exactly the way these things come right out of the package yep and we'll show them exactly how we do it I'll start out here first I'd do this because it's only the tips gonna drop today get worse it's gonna get in windy and worse oh yeah yeah I do this I'll be back in an hour and I just had to go do that [Music] let's show them what you drink this is good this is good cuz this is a calm this is a mistake that can happen so there's nothing wrong with this cuz we make the mistakes here so hopefully when you you guys kid out to your site you don't you've already got the first force lights in and you get the next ones drilled but doing the wrong spot so he's got them here and they're supposed to be here so they can shine on to the staff but it will it's just wrong so this is one of those areas that I wanted to wait to find out is it wrong is it right how does it actually work and the problem is having those lights on a flat surface shining up means every time you take a step you look down to that step you have a light shining right in your eyes it just doesn't work very good so if…

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