Jul 25, 2026
I get asked this on probably half of my quotes and I’ve never written it down anywhere, so here it is. Short answer: no, not really. It’s a few dollars a month for most houses. Less than your Wi-Fi. But people don’t believe me when I say it that...
Jul 18, 2026
This is one of those problems where people live with it for years and just assume that’s how it is. You walk out front, the first couple of fixtures near the transformer look great, and then as you go down the line they get progressively sadder. The last one out...
Jul 13, 2026
I do a lot of work out in Sun City and Sun City West, and a few years back I started noticing something about those jobs that I hadn’t really thought about before. The conversations were different. In Gilbert or Chandler people mostly want to talk about how it’s going...
Jul 7, 2026
Got a call from a guy in Fountain Hills back in the spring. He was pretty worked up. He’d put in landscape lighting himself, big weekend project, and somebody had said something to him about the dark sky ordinance and now he was convinced he was going to have to pull...
Jun 25, 2026
This one’s for the short-term rental folks, because I’ve done a bunch of these lately and there’s a side to it most owners don’t think about until I point it out. Here’s the situation. You’ve got a place in Scottsdale or Phoenix,...
Jun 17, 2026
We’re in it right now, so the timing on this is good. If you’re new to Phoenix, monsoon season runs roughly from mid-June into September. And if you grew up somewhere with normal rain, the word “monsoon” probably makes you picture a gentle warm...
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