Guide
Inground Light Inquiry Guide
Inground lighting has no single model specified in this range, so a quotation is built from the answers to position, load and water questions. Ask them in this order.
Position questions
- What surface does the fitting sit in — paving, decking, soil, gravel or a pool surround?
- How deep is the recess or sleeve, and what drainage exists below it?
- Does ground water or irrigation reach the fitting from below or behind?
- Is the position inside a water feature's splash zone, or fully dry in normal use?
Load questions
- What passes over the fitting — feet, cleaning machines, maintenance vehicles, cars?
- What face material and thickness does the load case require?
- Will the fitting be lifted for servicing, and how is the cable entry sealed after each lift?
Light questions
- What is being lit — a path edge, a tree, a wall base, a step — and from how far below?
- Which beam angle and colour does the effect need, using the underwater range's 10°-45° beam span as the reference set?
- On-off, or DMX512 as part of a wider programme?
How the answers are used
The answers decide whether a specified model can serve (a paved waterline position may suit a model from the underwater range), or whether the configuration must be proposed and Confirm the specification for your project in the inquiry under the inground category. Either way the model, its protection grade and its load case end up in the written quotation. Send the answers through the inquiry checklist.
Confirm before ordering
Do not accept a wattage-only answer for an inground position: confirm model, protection grade and load case in writing before ordering.
A model inground brief, annotated
Position: a paved pool surround, fittings in the paving ring a step back from the coping, lit target the low wall behind the pool. Surface and load: stone paving, foot traffic only, plus a cleaning machine twice a year — state the machine, because its wheel load is the design case, not the pedestrian. Water: splash from the pool daily, ground drained by the paving falls; no standing water intended, but the brief says what happens in the storm week when the drain blocks, because that week is the fitting's real examination. Light: a warm graze up the wall, on-off on the pool's lighting circuit, beam in the span used by the submersible range as a reference. Documents: the quotation to name the proposed model, its protection grade against both exposures (splash above, ground moisture below), and its load case against the cleaning machine. A brief written at that level does not guarantee a perfect fitting; it guarantees that the answer, whatever it is, is an answer to the real questions.
The answer you should expect back
A serious reply to an inground brief looks different from a flood light quotation. It names the proposed model or construction, states its protection grade against the brief's named exposures, states its load case against the brief's named traffic, and says how the fitting is serviced and resealed. If any of those four statements is missing, the brief has not been answered — it has been priced. Send it back for the missing statements before comparing numbers, because an inground fitting's price is the smallest part of its cost of ownership; the excavation to replace a wrong one is the largest.