Lighting Services in Lebanon, Maine

Lebanon's lighting needs run from eighteenth-century village houses to subdivisions built in the last few decades. In the West Lebanon Historic District, a village of houses built between the 1770s and 1870s, exterior lighting looks best when it is modest: period-style lanterns by the door, discreet step lights and no floodlights across a clapboard facade. Inside, low-profile LED fixtures and dimmers let original plaster ceilings and trim stay the center of attention. For a 1990s colonial or ranch, the usual upgrades are recessed LED lighting, under-cabinet lights in the kitchen and ceiling fans on the bedroom and living room circuits.

Outdoors, most Lebanon homes sit on rural lots along Route 202, Route 11 and the town's back roads, where streetlights are scarce and driveways can be long. Motion-activated lights over garage doors and entries, a light at the end of the driveway and a lit house number at the road make coming home after dark safer and help emergency crews find the right house. Low-voltage landscape lighting can outline a walkway without lighting the whole yard, and photocells or timers keep it all running without anyone flipping switches. Downward-aimed, shielded fixtures keep light where it is useful and out of the neighbors' windows. For a mobile home, a pole-mounted light at the pedestal or the end of the drive is often simpler to wire than fixtures on the home itself.

Replacing older incandescent and fluorescent fixtures with LEDs lowers the electric bill in a house that may soon be carrying a heat pump or charger, and it cuts down on bulb changes in tall foyers and stairwells. Fixtures for Maine's climate should be rated for wet locations and cold starts, and connections at exterior boxes should be sealed against the meltwater and ice that work into them every spring. Goodnow Electric installs recessed and under-cabinet lighting, LED retrofits, outdoor, landscape, security and motion lighting, ceiling fans, dimmers and lighting controls. Barns, sheds and detached garages on larger lots can also get properly protected circuits and fixtures that hold up to dust and cold. In a horse barn or workshop, sealed LED fixtures cut both fire risk and the number of bulbs that burn out in the cold.