If you have just finished hanging lights across your gutter and are continuing with the same strand across your peak use socket caps or electrical tape to cover the sockets not in use leading up to the peak.
How to hang rope lights on gutters.
Place the free end of the rope light strand on the mount closest to the electrical outlet.
By the way the package says to use one for every light or for every so many feet of rope light.
Mark the spots on the trees and drill guide holes.
You can use a lot less and still have an awesome light display.
Nail plastic cable clips appropriate for the diameter of your rope lighting in place along the line where your lighting will run.
This will give you space to slide the rope lighting in under the clips.
You may be tempted to cut the rope lights right away but wait until you finish hanging them.
This method is downright easy.
Place a shingle tabover the first socket to be used and screw in your light bulb.
String your lights around a door under the deck railing up the siding around a window or along the gutter all without nails or screws.
Continue stringing the lights making an outline of the planters.
Drill guide holes on the trees where you want to hang the lights.
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There are all sorts of destructive frustrating and expensive ways of putting up strands of decorative lights.
They hold rope lights or extension cords up to 3 8 inch in diameter.
Secure one end of the string lights to one of the cup hooks with the hook attached to the light or with cable ties or twist ties if no hook exists.
Hang the lights by threading them through the mounts.
Space them every 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm.
You can use them with any kind of light.
Rope lights come in reels so unravel only what you need.
Command tm outdoor rope light clips give you the freedom to hang your rope lights in new places outdoors.
Install the bulbs in your string lights.
They attach temporarily to gutters or shingles and stay put.
Arrange the planters in a rectangle no more than 10 apart.
No nails no screws no brittle plastic.
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.
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We just had a big wind storm last night and they are all still there.