Easiest Way To Put Up Christmas Tree Lights

For moderate lighting use six boxes of 100 light strands for a 6 foot christmas tree and eight boxes for an 8 foot tree.

Easiest way to put up christmas tree lights.

Slowly coil the string of lights around the tree and start weaving the lights in and out of the branches. Follow the same procedure as for subdued lighting but add dimension to your tree s sparkle by looping the strings a. Before you start plug in the lights to checks if all the bulbs are working. Use an extension cord to connect the first set of string lights and work your way from the top of the tree to the bottom.

If your tree is really wide divide it into fifths or even sixths. Try to avoid any obvious pattern or spiral. Here are the before and after pictures. But since part of the tree is against the wall i only added about 400 additional lights.

Cover more tree in sparkle with fewer lights by working the. Starting at the bottom of the tree and working your way up until you reach the end of the light strand. Leave them on while you work so you can see how they look on the tree. This eliminates the long strand of extra lights that would normally go from the tree to the wall outlet.

To attach the lights start at the end with the plug and work your way down the line making sure to keep your pipe sections in order and remembering to leave spaces of line where you need to. The easy way that i put lights on those trees i am going to cover here. You want the lights to look natural. This tree is 9 feet tall.

Plug the first strand of lights into an electrical outlet. Run an extension cord from the power outlet to the base of the tree and begin putting in lights from the base to the top of the tree. Step 1 depending on how wide full your tree is artificial or real divide it into fourths quadrants. 2 weave the lights back and forth across the triangular section placing them about 3 5 inches away from the tip of the branches.

I tried using 4 zip tiesat first but found that 6 ties work way better. Think front two sides and back. If the tree was not up against a wall i would have added 600 extra lights total to the entire tree.