Deck Lighting in Linwood, OH

Linwood (ZIP 45226) has houses old enough that nothing on them is a stock size, and everybody who works on them adjusts to it. A deck frame gets cut to measurements taken off the building, and that works because timber is cut on site.

What the household gets is lighting that sits flat and looks like part of the deck. Step lights sit level in the faces, the post tops carry caps that match, and the run under the rail is continuous. Nothing is packed out with a scrap of something to make it lie right.

A light fitting is made in a factory at one size. The catalog it came from assumes a step face about five and a half inches tall. It assumes a four by four post and a rail cap of a certain width. On a house where the steps vary and the posts were sized by eye, we check those assumptions first.

So the measuring comes before the ordering. We take the real step heights, post sizes and cap width at the estimate, then pick the fittings against those numbers. Step lights come in enough depths that one nearly always suits. Post caps are made for several sizes, and adaptor plates cover the rest.