Best way to hang outdoor Christmas lights?

Hire a high school kid for a case of beer

I don't hang outdoor lights other than across my upstairs porch rail and I zip tie them in place.

If I did the overhang, eaves, around doors etc. I'd probably opt for hooks as opposed to staples. Less holes with hooks and if you buy good ones, they will last years once you take the lights down.

You run the risk of puncturing the wires with an errant staple and you would have to pull them to remove the lights, thus having 2 holes per staple to either patch or leave alone.

No siding. Mostly brick with a little stucco in front.

Around your neck, then jump off the roof.


That's what I always want to do when wife brings it up.

You can buy the 3M sticky clips. They will stick right to your house and then release when you pull the tip of the sticky strip.

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Best way to hang outdoor Christmas lights?

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Don’t

Thanks!

Clips are a pain.
I go with 1/2” staples. Pow pow pow done.
They don’t even come close to damaging your roof.

clips on shingles

when i used to do this i used cup hooks, that way you cut a vee in a broom stick and can put them up and take them down without any ladder except for the plug end.

biggest mistake is never connect more then 2 strings to each other or the wires melt (because they are always too small)

if you doing the roof and need more then run an extension cord up there in the middle and run the lights outward from it so you only need one string from it to reach the edges of roof