How To Hang Outdoor Christmas Lights Without Gutters

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How to hang outdoor christmas lights without gutters.

Plan to run a heavy duty extension cords from a working 120 volt electrical outlet protected by a ground fault. There are a variety of clips that let you hang christmas lights without causing damage to your roof or sides of your home. They work by clipping onto the gutters shingles or eaves of your home. Measure any bushes shrubs or.

Drill guide holes on the trees where you want to hang the lights. It works with any type of light. First wind the lights up the tree leaving about 6 inches between each pass. Here are a few that might be.

Locate an electrical receptacle. Hanging lights with hooks or clips. Using hot glue on brick concrete and stucco. That will give you the desired 3 inch spacing.

Hang the lights pointing up or down just make sure they re all clipped in the same direction. Choose gutter hooks to quickly hang lights along your gutters. The best way to hang christmas lights on a tree is to make sure you enough light strands. Continue on to the branches then wrap back down into the empty spaces.

Attach lights to shutters or shingles to attach lights to your gutters use an all purpose light clip. The soffit there isn t perforated so i can t hang them through it either. I bought gutter clips so i wouldn t have to permanently install anything but i just realized that i don t have gutters along a pitched portion of my roof. I finally got around to hanging christmas lights this year.

There are different types of clips for different types of roofs and different types of lights. Instead use plastic clips. With a helper string the lights from one tree to the next holding them carefully to make sure the holes are the right distance apart. If you don t have gutters you can use the same clip to attach lights to your shingles instead.

Install a hook into each tree at the marked spot. Then start at the bottom of the tree and string your lights around and through the tree in a random fashion for a natural look. The general rule of thumb is 100 lights for every foot. Plug in a hot glue gun and let it heat up.