Flush Landscape Lighting Fixture Sleeve Collars

A path light set after the pavers are down means a cut field, a loose fixture, and polymeric sand in the wire. PaverForge sets a sleeve and a flush collar while the walk is still open, so the lighting contractor can pull a fixture later without a saw.

Sleeve before bedding

The sleeve is a short PVC or composite tube on the lighting plan, set to finished paver elevation, with a wire loop left in the sleeve. The collar finishes flush with the paver so a toe and a mower pass it. Bedding sand and polymeric sand are kept out of the tube. The low-voltage cable is not buried under the edge restraint where a later pull would require a trench through the border.

This is not the transformer pad. The transformer still wants its own isolation pad, off the ground, with clearance. The sleeve is only the fixture location in the walk, the patio border, or the driveway soldier course. Step lights and recessed well lights use the same idea with a different can.

Coastal notes

Salt air kills cheap fixtures. A sleeve does not fix a bad fixture, but it does mean the replacement is a pull, not a demo. On gulf lots we keep metal collars off the plan unless they are marine grade. Amber or shielded fixtures are the turtle-lighting conversation on the beach side. Inland Crossroads and Largo lots can use a standard path light.

Bring the lighting plan or a marked photo. PaverForge, 727-490-9798, PaverForge@gmail.com, https://www.paverforge.com/services.