re: Hanging C9 Christmas Lights on Roof Trim

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I cannot make the link live for whatever reason. I searched “broom clips to hang” on amazon.


Get yourself enough of these clips. One clip for every four feet of C-9 lights.

Paint them the same color as the part of your house you’re attaching them to.

Attach them in their proper positions on your house spaced every four feet. They will stay there permanently and be hardly noticeable. If putting them on gutters I recommend a rivet gun. Obviously you cannot do this on shingles.

Buy enough 3/4” or 1” PVC pipe to match the number of feet of C-9 lights you have. Paint the pipe the same color as your house if desired.

Spend several hours on a one time job. Attach the C-9 string to the PVC pipes with a tie wrap on each side of each bulb. Space the bulbs appropriately to eliminate a tail at the end.

Jam the pipes (with lights attached) to these clips. Use coupling and elbows where needed to make a continuous pipe along your gutter or fascia. Do not glue them!

Takes 10% of the time to put these up. When it’s time to take them down you just rip them off (assuming you have the LED C-9 lights with plastic rather than glass.

Store the pipes with lights still attached in your attic or garage.

If you don’t want this on your house, the same concept works for window lights. Make a square/rectangle out of 1/2” hot water PVC pipe which fits snug on the inside on your windows. It takes longer to get them from wherever they’re stored than to put them up.