Landscape & Low Voltage Lighting Installation in Littleton, CO

Very unlikely — a section going dark almost always means one failed connection or a cut cable at the boundary between working and dead, and the original pierce-style connectors are the usual suspects after a few winters. It's meter work: find the break, remake the splice properly waterproof, done. Whole-system replacement is for when you want a different system, not because half of one went dark.

Usually, and the math got friendlier: if your system still runs halogen lamps, converting to LED slashes the load so dramatically that the existing transformer often gains room for everything you want to add. I'll total the loads, check the cable runs, and tell you whether it's a simple splice-and-extend or the moment for a second transformer.

Yes — that's its genius. Twelve volts is safe to the touch, the cable can live at shallow depth, and rain and sprinklers are part of its normal life when connections are made with proper waterproof splices. The one real vulnerability is shovels and aerators finding the cable, which is why I route runs along beds and edges and tell you where they are.

Both — transformer, low-voltage runs, fixtures and timer, or a repair to what's already there. Littleton and Lakewood are where most of these calls come from, usually a system that was put in years ago and has lost half its run. New or repaired, I bury the cable properly rather than tucking it under mulch to resurface next spring.