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Make outdoor living a breeze with PDL

Our back gardens are extensions of our homes — they’re places for enjoying meals, catching up with family and friends, and spending time relaxing. They are also a place for kids and pets to play, where your family can create their own little sanctuary.

Whether you have a pool and room for backyard cricket or a smaller garden with a deck and barbecue, use electric home design to enhance the outdoor living at your place.

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Take it outside

How do you imagine yourself using your backyard area? Are you cooking dinner on the barbecue during the week? Hosting parties? Relaxing around the pool with family and friends? Getting your hands dirty in the garden each weekend?

Choosing the right electrical features will make outdoor living easier and more enjoyable. And even if you’re not installing everything immediately, it pays to plan ahead.

You might want an outdoor kitchen (or even just a drinks fridge), as well as outdoor speakers, and lighting around the deck and garden. Think about pool pumps, outdoor fans, a water feature, or even power in your tool shed.

Draw up a wish list for your ultimate outdoors and talk to your electrician about a plan for what you want now and how you can prepare for adding extras over time.

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Living is easy with Wiser

Smart home features aren’t just for indoors – a smart home solution like PDL Wiser can transform life outside too.

PDL Wiser integrates with the stylish Iconic Outdoor range of switches and power points to give you effortless control of outdoor lighting, fans, automatic shades, pool heating, and other features all from your smart device.

You can automate routines to make spending time outdoors even more inviting. Use the Wiser by SE app to schedule outdoor shades or pergolas to open or close at certain times of day, or set outdoor lighting to turn on at sunset and off at bedtime.

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Create Wiser Moments

Having precise control of lighting lets you set the al fresco mood at the tap of a screen and can be linked with other activities to create Wiser Moments in the app.

For instance, a ‘Romantic Dinner Moment’ might soften the garden lighting, turn off the deck lights, and open the roof shade so you can see the stars. Or a ‘Pool Party Moment’ could turn the pool lights different colours, start your favourite playlist over the outdoor speakers, and light up the garden and deck.

If you have outdoor LED strip lights, you could set them to come on each night in Christmas colours over the festive season and link them to a Christmas music playlist with a ‘Christmas Moment’ in your Wiser app. You can also adjust the brightness and colour of your lights using the Wiser by SE app or voice commands through Apple’s Siri, Google Home, or Amazon Alexa.

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Safe and sound

Stay safe outside with motion sensor lights for security and easy movement. The Infrascan Motion Sensor detects activity up to 18m away and triggers lights at an adjustable level to help you find your way in the dark and deter any would-be intruders.

A Wiser Outdoor IP Camera adds another level of security to your home and lets you monitor your back garden from your smart device and receive real-time alerts wherever you are in the world.

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