Best place to get Christmas lights?

I’ve seen those guys that get big spools of lights and custom fit the to your house. I was thinking about doing it myself but not sure where to get them.

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big spools of lights and custom fit the to your house. I was thinking about doing it myself but not sure where to get them.

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The term to search is “stringer.”
So, “c9 stringer” will get you to where you want to go. You’ll usually get the options of green or white wire. More rarely, you can find brown wire.
You’ll typically need to separately buy “vampire plugs” to terminate the line. There are several websites that you’ll come across when searching that have both- 1000lights, christmaslightsetc, holiday lighting outlet
Then as you look, you’ll want to choose your spacing. They come as close as 6” and as far as 18” or maybe 24” pretty regularly. You could buy bulk wire and put the sockets on yourself. But that’s fairly tedious by comparison.
Most will have some sort of clip integrated into the socket. If you want it, make sure it’s there. If you don’t, you may find one without it a little cheaper. There are also some with magnetic bases, but they’re a bit more expensive. With LED lights, you can run much longer lengths than you could with halogen. It’s fairly commonplace to buy 12” spaced stringer and run two sets, slightly offset, so you get the appearance of 6” spacing if you need particularly long runs or insist on halogen bulbs.


None of these will come with bulbs, of course. You’ll need to separately find the color/brightness ones, “strawberry” vs “smooth,” visible LED filament vs “normal”




I have done a lot of reading. I have not actually done this yet. I may do it this year. I may wait until next. But I’m going to go custom length and mount on PVC or in C/U channel in the nearish future.

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The term to search is “stringer.” So, “c9 stringer” will get you to where you want to go. You’ll usually get the options of green or white wire. More rarely, you can find brown wire. You’ll typically need to separately buy “vampire plugs” to terminate the line. There are several websites that you’ll come across when searching that have both- 1000lights, christmaslightsetc, holiday lighting outlet Then as you look, you’ll want to choose your spacing. They come as close as 6” and as far as 18” or maybe 24” pretty regularly. You could buy bulk wire and put the sockets on yourself. But that’s fairly tedious by comparison. Most will have some sort of clip integrated into the socket. If you want it, make sure it’s there. If you don’t, you may find one without it a little cheaper. There are also some with magnetic bases, but they’re a bit more expensive. With LED lights, you can run much longer lengths than you could with halogen. It’s fairly commonplace to buy 12” spaced stringer and run two sets, slightly offset, so you get the appearance of 6” spacing if you need particularly long runs or insist on halogen bulbs. None of these will come with bulbs, of course. You’ll need to separately find the color/brightness ones, “strawberry” vs “smooth,” visible LED filament vs “normal” I have done a lot of reading. I have not actually done this yet. I may do it this year. I may wait until next. But I’m going to go custom length and mount on PVC or in C/U channel in the nearish future.

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Amazing.

We did ours around landscaping
I think I ended up buying 6 total

I would measure what you are wanting to line first, if you’re doing a driveway these might not be best option
Also, as other poster said check spacing, don’t want them close together but not too spaced out either

If you can wait there will probably be Black Friday deals

Thanks for all the knowledge. I don’t think I’ll do it this year but maybe next. I’ve seen a few videos of guys doing it as a business and they make it look easy.

Check out the Website: Christmas Lights, Etc.
My favorite holiday is Christmas and I always load up in July when they have their summer sales event. That being said, they discount stuff 25% on a regular basis and free shipping becomes an option after a certain price point.

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I’ve seen those guys that get big spools of lights and custom fit the to your house. I was thinking about doing it myself but not sure where to get them.

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My local Ace Hardware cuts them to length for you if you bring in a list of the runs you need.

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Check out the Website: Christmas Lights, Etc. My favorite holiday is Christmas and I always load up in July when they have their summer sales event. That being said, they discount stuff 25% on a regular basis and free shipping becomes an option after a certain price point.

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This is what I’m talking about.

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