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Outdoor Lights
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Yeah just hit 40 and I definitely don't get up and down ladders as quickly as I used to.
A couple of homes in our neighborhood have the permanent lights. They occasionally use them during the year - like the family next door turned them on during Diwali.
If we can't install lights from the ground or a short stepladder, we don't put any up on the house. (With the exception of 2022 & 2023 when we paid a company to do it)
If this was our forever home, we'd pay someone to install the permanent lights.
If we can't install lights from the ground or a short stepladder, we don't put any up on the house. (With the exception of 2022 & 2023 when we paid a company to do it)
If this was our forever home, we'd pay someone to install the permanent lights.
I would probably pay $1,500 for permanent "programmable outdoor lights" but $5k is way too much.
I hung my C9 led equivalents yesterday as well.
I hung my C9 led equivalents yesterday as well.
I bought some Govee Permanant lights from Amazon on Prime Day. I bought 150ft worth (100ft and 50ft kits) and was able to return the 50ft kit since I didn't need it. I love them so far. I think for the 150ft it cost me $279 on sale. Really easy to put up. If you go with them, a tip is to clean the surface with alcohol, heat the soffit and light adhseive with a hair dryer to make it work better, and to use a spacer block when installing to get consistant spacing from the house.
I think the guy that invented Xmas lights should be tied to a chair and every man in America should have 5 minutes to beat on them. Who in he!! decided we should celebrate the Holidays by taking cheap Chinese products and hanging them on our house when there is no compatibility. Oh way, then let's throw cold, wet, weather and electricity into the equation.
She isn't going to kill me. Plus she's vegan, so we rarely eat the same type of food.
When we moved into our forever home in 2021, I did not have the desire to try to figure out how to get up to the peaks of my second story to hang lights so we went the permanent route through Trimlight. They do all the installation, they come to your house to measure and color match the underside of the overhang so during the day, the lights are nearly impossible to see unless you are really looking them. All controlled through an app, 40 year warranty. Yes, they are more pricy than installing a Govee pack myself, but as was noted earlier in the thread, we called someone to hang lights just for a year and it was going to be $1,500-$2,000 annually so this paid for that cost already.
As opposed to buying cheap Chinese products we gift each other on Christmas Day?
I'm in Waukee so we had Innovative Lights do ours. It's a local company and Thomas is great to work with. I can send some pics if you want to see our lights.
Tell me about the app and control. I tried putting some programmable bulbs in my garage outdoor light fixtures but I needed wifi to each bulb for it to work and my wifi doesn't extend that far out. Is it wifi to the box or to each string or does it work another way?
I'm way too cheap to spend much $ and time on xmas decor. Picked up a large wreath at auction for a buck, added some twinkling lights we had laying around, put 2 screws into wall to hold it in place, and hung wreath to accent a round portal window our 1950 home has. There happens to be an outdoor power outlet right below it. Looks great when it is snowing. Spend maybe 5 minutes/yr getting it up/down....
I think the Govee pucks look tacky. A neighbor has the Govee strips and they look a lot nicer. But still not "Christmas Lights"
Sorry, just seeing this now. It's wifi to the box, not to each string. When you open the app, you can select multiple different preset scenes, control each light individually, etc. You can set timers/schedules and fairly easily change between different colors. Sometimes I'm trying to change a single light, but it changes everything. Still not sure why it does that, but overall, I'm very happy. They don't look like "Christmas" lights - more like uplighting/downlighting.
Thanks. Have seen them on several houses in the neighborhood. I like the scalloped look they give the houses. I am a little anal about it and think it doesn't look nearly as good when installers aren't careful to make sure that a peak is balanced down each side - the first lights on each side of the peak should be equidistant from the peak so it looks balanced.
