Adam, no you didn't just do a gutter light video! Thanks alot bro, I will be installing mines tomorrow. I will send you a picture of the completed work when finished!!!
I'd like to route my low voltage wire through my gutters/downspouts to get to the other side of my driveway.... are you able to show what the wire looks like at the bottom of the downspout? Does it just come out the end and exposed for a few inches and buried as close a possible to the end of the downspout?
Great question. I can show that in another video. But to explain it now. Most downspouts you can detach the bottom angled part. Run the wire on the back side of it, put the angled downspout back on, and then put the 6ich inches of wire in some sort of PVC pipe. The wire and pipe will be really close to the wall. Hope that description made sense.
@@aklighting8292 Awesome, thanks for the response! I think that makes sense but would love if you showed in a future video....its really cool that you respond to your viewers - subbed
great video, very informative and the link for the mount is priceless, thanks a lot, do you have a link for the screws you use for the mount? and how do you make sure it does not cause a water leak where you drill them, do you calk them or use a plastic o-ring washer?.. thanks again
Why would anyone attach a spotlight to their gutter? Especially if they live in a ranch home? Providing small spotlights for any stray prop planes flying over my house at night?
Great question. I've never dealt with that before. All I know is these lights aren't shining straight up and they aren't very bright. It wouldn't stand out any more than the porch lights or street lights if you have any.
Great question! Mount the light on the outside of the gutter on the lip of the gutter. You would fish the wire through the gutter and then connect the wire to the light and keep the connectors in the gutter. If you have those fancy leaf guard that aren't the chicken wire looking gauge, then you'll have to install it differently.
@@aklighting8292 By the way, based on your videos earlier this year, I installed my own lighting. Now, all of my neighbors want me to help them install lighting at their house! You need to give everybody else warning of this happening to them too.
Great question! Mount the light on the outside of the gutter on the lip of the gutter. You would fish the wire through the gutter and then connect the wire to the light and keep the connectors in the gutter. If you have those fancy leaf guard that aren't the chicken wire looking gauge, then you'll have to install it differently.
How do you get the cable from the gutter to the ground if the downspout feeds into into an in-ground drainage system, with no ground-level exit for the cable to come out of? I heard you can zip tie the cable to the back of the downspout, although that seems like it wouldn’t look great (especially since our downspout is right by the front door). Suggestions?
Sorry, one more question! We have a three car garage with two garage doors and wide driveway that covers a good chunk of the front of our house, so I wanted to light up the garage doors a bit (rather than only light up the second floor and then have a black hole on the first floor). One question I’m stuck on though: is it possible to use a gutter mount to hang a low voltage downlight pointed at garage doors? We have a wide driveway that prevents easily pointing spotlights from the ground at the garage doors. I’ve seen online that a common solution is to install flush down lights in the soffit, or well lights in the driveway pavement close to the garage doors…but both options are a bit too intimidating for me to try as a DIYer. I was already planning on trying to get uplight spotlights in the gutter to illuminate the second floor anyways, so hanging a down light from the gutter to shine on the garage doors wouldn’t be much more work - except I can’t find anything online showing this to be possible, except for gutter mounted solar downlights, when I would rather have low voltage (not solar) gutter mounted down lights so I can actually turn them on and off easily. Is there such a thing as a gutter mounted low voltage downlight, and if there is, what mount could I use to do that?
Love to see you do a video of the finished lighting at night!
Adam, no you didn't just do a gutter light video! Thanks alot bro, I will be installing mines tomorrow. I will send you a picture of the completed work when finished!!!
Yes it did! You're welcome! Looking forward to seeing the pictures.
Oh nice. Thank you.
I'd like to route my low voltage wire through my gutters/downspouts to get to the other side of my driveway.... are you able to show what the wire looks like at the bottom of the downspout? Does it just come out the end and exposed for a few inches and buried as close a possible to the end of the downspout?
Great question. I can show that in another video. But to explain it now. Most downspouts you can detach the bottom angled part. Run the wire on the back side of it, put the angled downspout back on, and then put the 6ich inches of wire in some sort of PVC pipe. The wire and pipe will be really close to the wall. Hope that description made sense.
@@aklighting8292 Awesome, thanks for the response! I think that makes sense but would love if you showed in a future video....its really cool that you respond to your viewers - subbed
Great video
Woulda been nice to see how they actually look when lit up
How about the under eave lights that shine down? Would be a awesome video
That would be a great video. Its not a light we often install, and its a trickier light than most. Great vid idea, thanks!
great video, very informative and the link for the mount is priceless, thanks a lot, do you have a link for the screws you use for the mount? and how do you make sure it does not cause a water leak where you drill them, do you calk them or use a plastic o-ring washer?.. thanks again
Why would anyone attach a spotlight to their gutter? Especially if they live in a ranch home? Providing small spotlights for any stray prop planes flying over my house at night?
Great question. I've never dealt with that before. All I know is these lights aren't shining straight up and they aren't very bright. It wouldn't stand out any more than the porch lights or street lights if you have any.
Can you light up a peak from a light on the ground if the house is one story? If yes, which light and beam pattern?
What do you do about installing them in gutters with leaf guards?
Great question! Mount the light on the outside of the gutter on the lip of the gutter. You would fish the wire through the gutter and then connect the wire to the light and keep the connectors in the gutter. If you have those fancy leaf guard that aren't the chicken wire looking gauge, then you'll have to install it differently.
Yo Adam, can you share where you obtained the mount you used in this video?
If you have access to these mounts, you can get them from your local Kichler distributor. I get mine from Sterling Lights.
@@aklighting8292 By the way, based on your videos earlier this year, I installed my own lighting. Now, all of my neighbors want me to help them install lighting at their house! You need to give everybody else warning of this happening to them too.
Haha! I should make a warning video about that! Its so true, it happens a lot because we do it right and it looks good!
What about those houses that have covers over there gutters from debris.. meaning that aren't wide open like you just show'd
Great question! Mount the light on the outside of the gutter on the lip of the gutter. You would fish the wire through the gutter and then connect the wire to the light and keep the connectors in the gutter. If you have those fancy leaf guard that aren't the chicken wire looking gauge, then you'll have to install it differently.
How do you get the cable from the gutter to the ground if the downspout feeds into into an in-ground drainage system, with no ground-level exit for the cable to come out of? I heard you can zip tie the cable to the back of the downspout, although that seems like it wouldn’t look great (especially since our downspout is right by the front door). Suggestions?
Sorry, one more question! We have a three car garage with two garage doors and wide driveway that covers a good chunk of the front of our house, so I wanted to light up the garage doors a bit (rather than only light up the second floor and then have a black hole on the first floor). One question I’m stuck on though: is it possible to use a gutter mount to hang a low voltage downlight pointed at garage doors? We have a wide driveway that prevents easily pointing spotlights from the ground at the garage doors. I’ve seen online that a common solution is to install flush down lights in the soffit, or well lights in the driveway pavement close to the garage doors…but both options are a bit too intimidating for me to try as a DIYer. I was already planning on trying to get uplight spotlights in the gutter to illuminate the second floor anyways, so hanging a down light from the gutter to shine on the garage doors wouldn’t be much more work - except I can’t find anything online showing this to be possible, except for gutter mounted solar downlights, when I would rather have low voltage (not solar) gutter mounted down lights so I can actually turn them on and off easily. Is there such a thing as a gutter mounted low voltage downlight, and if there is, what mount could I use to do that?
Hey, are you running a main wire across the gutter or are these two just daisy chained together?
Where's the gutter light?