7 Garage Task Lamps to Shed Light On Your Projects
When it comes to tackling projects in your garage, having the right garage task lighting can make all the difference.
Garage Security: A Common Sense Guide
Garage tools, lawn equipment and bicycles are the first to go when thieves rob your garage. Reinforcing garage windows and doors can prevent unlawful entry. Use locks, barriers, and some psychological tools to keep thieves away.
How Many Garage Lamps? Use this Calculator
Once you figure which lamps you want, then you need to know how many you need. Our calculator assumes an average brightness of 60 lumens per square foot. If you like it really bright, up that to 70 or so. Or just take the result and get one more lamp than the calcuator outputs.
The Best Garage Lights
I was not on board with this whole LED thing until I did some research. LEDs are brighter and way cheaper than incandescents and fluorescents. I found a highly-rated LED garage lamp that lasts longer and costs less than any old-fashioned type of lighting.
HyKolity offers a 4200-lumen garage light at a reasonable price on Amazon. They use only 42 watts, but they give off the brightness of a 280-watt incandescent bulb. The HyKolity shines at 5,000 K, in the sweet spot color between yellow and blue. See below to calculate how many lights you need for your garage’s dimensions.
Look at the HyKolity garage lamps on Amazon.
Don’t Get Left In the Dark! A Lighting Guide For Garages
Why should you change your garage lighting? Aside from just being bad lighting, the regular incandescent bulb you might still have is very inefficient. For the same energy cost, you could get something really worthwhile that will make it possible…
5 Things You Can Do to Make Your Garage Better
Clear out the garage floor. Light the garage. Clean the garage. Control the garage temperature. Beautify the garage floor.