Licensed Electricians · Tinley Park, IL

Lutron Smart Lighting Installation in Tinley Park

The first question on any Lutron job in an older house isn't which dimmer you want — it's whether there's a neutral wire in the box. Plenty of Tinley Park homes don't have one, and that single fact decides the product, the price and whether the job takes an afternoon or a day.

Switch boxes in the older parts of the village — the brick ranches and split-levels around Oak Park Avenue and the streets that went in before the village pushed west — were wired when a switch was a switch. Two wires, no neutral, nothing to power a smart device. Caseta is built for exactly that situation and works without a neutral, which is why it tends to be the right answer here rather than the fancier system.

The other thing older homes throw up is the three- and four-way switch. Split-levels are full of them: stairs, hallways, a landing with a switch at each end. Those are the circuits people most want automated and the ones a cheap smart switch handles worst, because it has to keep talking to the other end of the run. Lutron does that properly with a companion switch that needs no wiring changes at all.

Tinley Park licenses its contractors through the village and sits across two counties, so where you are relative to 80th Avenue changes the paperwork. We file it either way.

If you'd rather talk it through first, call (708) 407-3559 — quotes are free, and we'll tell you if you don't need the work.

What these jobs look like around Tinley Park

• Older boxes with no neutral wire, where Caseta is the sensible answer
• Split-level stairs and landings running on three- and four-way switches
• Kitchens where six switches sit in one crowded gang box
• Homeowners who want two or three rooms done, not the whole house
• Exterior and porch lights people are tired of switching manually

What's included

• Checking the boxes for a neutral before anything is ordered
• Dimmers and switches matched to the fixtures — LED dimming is fussy and worth getting right
• Companion switches for three- and four-way runs, no rewiring needed
• Pico remotes where a wall control isn't where people actually stand
• Hub set up, scenes built with you, app on your phone before we leave
• Village permit where the work calls for one

When it's worth doing

• Buzzing or flickering LEDs on an old dimmer that was built for bulbs
• A bank of switches nobody can remember the order of
• Stairs or a hallway you'd like on a timer or a motion trigger
• Wanting the porch light to come on at dusk without thinking about it
• A room where the only switch is at the wrong end of it

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