The Best Way To Install String Lights
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2018
- STEP BY STEP: HOW TO INSTALL STRING LIGHTS. Market Lights, String Lights, Cafe Lights, Bistro Lights, Fiesta Lights, Party Lights, Patio Lights. Whatever you prefer to call them, they provide an awesome ambiance for you and your guests. If you are wanting to upgrade your outdoor space, this is a fantastic way to do it. Learn what tools and materials you will need, where to get them and how to properly, professionally & safely install string lights.
If you are like me and you want to skip ahead:
1:12 - Tools Needed
2:30 - Pole & Attachments Spots
3:03 - Step 1 - Lay out Strand & Lights
3:21 - Attach "S" Hooks to Light Strand
3:28 - Lay Out Braided Cable
3:37 - Attaching Eye Bolt
4:13 - Attaching Cable Clamps
6:06 - Hanging Lights
7:44 - Electrical Ends
Great video, just missing the money shot at the end. I wanted to see them at night in action.
I was going to leave a similar comment but you put it more beautifully hahaha!! Agreed, great video
your outdoor living is gorgeous! Nice job
Getting ready to hang my lights. Thank you so much for the tips and tricks. I would have made many mistakes if not for your guidance. Thanks again!
Excellent vid! You are generous with your time and with answering so many questions!
Well thank you guys for sharing your talents and tips for putting up these lights. I can’t express adequately how grateful I am to see a step by step of hanging these so I can add some lighting to my tiny backyard garden and have it look so much nicer than a tangle of plugs, cords and staples. It was also very heartwarming to have two gentlemen from my home state instructing. All of my family still lives in the DFW area and you guys made me feel like I was visiting home for a few minutes.
Thank you for the basic installation of the string lights. I’m wanting to install hooks on my back patio so you gave me some good instructions. Thank you!
thanks guys - followed your steps and found success on my install patio lights.
Thanks for the detail explanations guys. You saved me big bucks. Kudos to you guys. I have successfully installed my string lights sets in my backyard.
👍👍👍💝🙏
😩And I foolishly thought I was gonna “just hang the lights”....there’s so much involved in the process. LOL I’m glad I checked TH-cam. This video was very helpful. Thank you! 💝🙏
Me too. Thinking I could just hang them and secure them to 4 poles.
@@joslynn4310 - 👍IKR …..we’re gonna have to rethink our plan and/or ask for some help. 😩😂
@@lovingatlanta I went to a store called Popshelf and bought 4 large tin containers. Very cute, I might add. I was going to pour ready mix concrete in it, with a piece of plywood in the middle, all the same height and add the string lights. I was going to stain the plywood, put rocks on top of the concrete, and dirt on top of the rocks so I could plant flowers. I was discouraged when I watch the video to add the cable wiring, hooks, and screws. I just thought it would be easier.
@@joslynn4310 - 👍Sounds like you had a fantastic plan 😂💝 - I hope you got your lights hung. I ended up hiring a handyman I found on Craigslist- they look great. 💝👍
Great video. Question: What is the maximum length of string lights you'll typically allow between two posts/poles before you decide a third one is needed for support?
This was very helpful; thank you. Wish you added the connect instruction to the pole (resistance measures), and also to add the finished look. Still loved the video.
Brilliant! I followed your directions and my backyard looks fabulous! So clean and professional looking. I can’t believe I did this. Thank you guys for your such detailed and clear instructions.
Hey, guys! Awesome job! This video helped a lot with putting up my lights this year. It consumed my life as the weather was bad every time I wanted to put them up. Materials cost me about $70 but mostly because I didn’t have any damn channel locks.
So I went ahead and bought 12ft poles at home depot for around $28, and an end cap to prevent water from getting in. Then dug a 2.5 ft hole and cemented the poles in. It was hard work, took me a good 2hrs of pure manual labor, but it was worth it.
Awesome. Yes it is a booger but it will for sure pay off for years to com
Im looking for 4 poles to hang lights that are strong enough fro cable install. May I ask what type of poles did you get? Im also looking to 12ft and cement them in ground. Was thinking of going 4x4 route but not sure I wanted something that big. One more question do you think the poles are pretty much a lightning rod?
Thanks
yo! can you recall what 12 ft pole you purchased from HD? im struggling to figure out which one to buy atm!
What size 12 foot poles?
12 foot poles of what material? Poles are the hang up in my job....I need 6-8 poles on 200' of lights
Thanks for the night view, awesome reveal.
Can you give some details on the type of dimmer switch you used and what dimmer you recommend for outdoor use?
Thank you so much for the great video. For my home I'm looking to do the patio light but inside a pool enclosure, just wanted to know what would you use to secure on aluminum enclosure?
Nice job guys; thank you!
Thank you!!! I installed the lights and they looks amazing and so nice!
Our pleasure. Glad you were able to tackle the project
Great patio light setup, and great video. Thanks for the shout out!
Thanks for taking the time to make & post the video. Very helpful. What size eye hooks did you use?
I am in Australia and thanks very much for sharing your knowledge - I am using solar ones.
Nice. Thank you
Bro thanks for spreading out this knowledge, big respects
Great video!! I have a cedar sided house. How do I connect the lights to the cedar siding so the lights hang over my deck?
Watching from Austin, I used to live in Tyler. Super helpful video, thanks guys!!
Nice video! I am taking on a project almost identical and you guys have saved me a lot of heartache! With LEDs are there any polarity issues when connecting the plug? Thank you for a great video.
Thanks for the video. Used your guide as my go-to during this ordeal of hanging 168'... Based on my experience, and granted I'm far from a pro, but the turnbuckles are KEY to getting the guide wire perfectly taut as well as maintaining one's (my) sanity.
Great job guys! Shane is a funny dude. I had to like and subscribe. Thanks
Isn't it crazy how many different names there are for string lights lol! Your way is the same way that we recommend to our clients. Our company provides DIY string lighting rentals nationwide so that couples don't have to buy equipment or hire an expensive vendor. Thanks again for posting this, I am going to share this with our clients 🤗
What is the name of your company?
Nice job guys!
Very helpful
Thank you! Very helpful!
A good rule of thumb for setting poles is to bury them 10 percent of the pole length plus 2 feet in soft soils, and 10 percent of the pole length plus 1 foot in hard and rocky soils. This is how set depth is determined for utility poles.
In very cold climates, they also need to be buried below the frost line.
great video, thanks. Disappointed I didn't get to see it at night
Good video but you should’ve included a “reveal” of how good the finished lights looked. Question: why was the final hook eye screwed into a rafter and not screwed in same spot in beam as the first one?
Yes we should have put a final in there. We wanted the viewing angle from the patio to be similar on both sides and needed another 6” - 9” on that other side.
Should of showed it at night so we could see.
Great video! Thanks for posting this, it helped me a lot.
Thank you very much; very helpful.
Very welcome
Pls make short video of dimmer. Where to buy how to install. Great video full of info wonderful pace with details. Appreciate ya'll.
Great job and it looks nice. And congratulations on your first year teaching hope you have a great career..
Thanks Scott. We look forward to making more videos when we have a little time.
Where did you plug in the light strands? Is there any additional information on how you ran the extension cord to the lights to hide the cords as much as possible?
Many thanks for the informative video, it was great
My channel our pleasure. Thanks for watching
What did you do with the other end of the wire on the pole? It was cut and no end on it
Nice job thanks for sharing 👍🏻
Would it be fine to use galvanized cable instead of vinyl coated? I've seen old vinyl coated cables that turn color and crack or flake away over time.
Nice vid! I use galvanized wire to hang the lights from. They’re cheap and effective.
same, just bought 110 feet👍
what gauge galvanized wire did you use? Great idea thanks for sharing.
If I remember I used 14ga galvanized wire
@@georgeleakos8376 Thank you!
What about the wire clamps ?
Nice Video Thank you...
After you attach it you could use a pair of vice grips and grab the dead horse. Loosen the clamps until the cable can slide freely, and use the eye screw as a pulley to pull the slack out of the full length. Hope that makes sense - seems like that would be easier with two people up there somehow so one person can hold the vice grips while the other guy loosens the clamp.
Great video, thank you for taking the time to put this up. One question, where did you get that nice looking black pole in the back corner of the yard? Do you have a supply company or us part number? And what is the cost for a good pole like that?
It's just a 3" pole from a steel supply company locally. We welded the end cap and a piece of chain link to it then painted it.
I have 1/16 wire cable, will this cable be able to handle the weight?
Thanks guys. I'm having problems finding contractors who will call me back (let alone not charge me a gazillion $'s to do stuff - $4000 to build a 25 ft fence?) so I've been resorting to buying DIY kits and TH-cam. I bought the Yardistry pavillion and the Adjust-A-Gate gate kit, then the string lights, now I just want to put them up without spoiling the whole professional look. The vinyl coated cable should do the trick. :-)
if i'm covering like 15" across a covered patio, do you think i need the braided wire?
Thank you!
Thanks! Helpful
We used this exact same process and the string lights came out awesome!! Thank you so much.. we used about 300ft of string lights..
Southern accent sounds funny and cute at the same time.
Thanks for the video! What do you attach to the pole to hang the string lights?
Yw Brenda. We welded a loop to attach it
How many caribiners did you used for this install? I didn't see the attachment at the pole in the back; did you just loop the cable through? I trying to figure out how you got the cable and lights attached through that loop.
Looking for the model of the dimmer switch you used for this project.
Where can I buy this black long pole?!!
Hi I am trying to make the lights, sometimes sellers say bulbs are 3w
sometimes they say its 24v, I don't know I am in AUS so 240v from power
point. how do i ensure I don;t blow anything? how do i get an idea how
bright it is going to be, i have a bulb that is 23w and 1610lumens that i
want my festoon to be much lower. hence when they say the bulb they
sell is 24v, I don't know how bright.
I want to know if I can make one wiring point and put them all together in the center. I have 4 lines I'd like to make but don't want the back sides to have bulbs or wiring.
what do you use to connect the lights to gutters or siding of the house?
is the 1/8" wire overkill? Will 1/16" work? Just curious. Doesn't seem like there is a lot of weight. Maybe there's more concern if you have tree branches falling.
Great video. Would you be able to share where would be the best place be to get the black pole that you all used and what it’s called?
It's answered somewhere in the comments now, I read it while scrolling
@Longview Lights
Advice on poles? Material? Height? I'm using 7-8 poles, approx 200ft lights over pool....want to make sure poles are secure
Great job nice video I think I was your 1k subscriber
What did you do with the end of the light wire that didn’t get a plug attached? How did you terminate it or cap it off from getting wet or electrocuting anyone or anything?
Do you have the links to exactly what you used for the the lights, bulbs and male/female part? Especially the bulbs.... I have no idea what bulbs to use.
Awesome video 🥰👏 Thank you for your professional knowledge🙏
I know you buy the strands at custom lengths. But what is to stop you from buying a 50' run of lights from Amazon, and cutting to length as needed, maybe down 47-1/2 once everything is in place. What's the best way to seal off the cut wire ends?
Do you have a video on the dimmer install? I couldn’t seem to locate one on a search for your channel.
Hey Mrrolltide658. Send longviewlights a DM on Instagram or Facebook and I’ll send you a video on how to install a dimmer. When you buy a dimmer, make sure it is compatible with the type of lights you are using (LED or incandescent)
@@Longviewlights What kind or brand of dimmer did you use? We hung Edison LED Lights from Costco which are gorgeous, but very bright and would very much like to dim them. They are on our back covered porch. Also, we need to cut off the end bc we ended up with about 8 lights too many. Do they have end caps for this? Thanks for your video.
Good video! Question about the cable - Whats the longest unsupported span of cable you guys have run to hang lights from? Whats the max span you would go before adding a support?
It depends on how solid your supports are. We’ve ran as far as 80’ before. It’s very difficult, the further you stretch to actually get it hung because of the weight.
Question about the cable… Why do you need to use final coated?
Vinyl
I like your video. I have the same setup. Please tell me about the pole you used. What's the material and what is at the top to attach the wire? Thank you.
Someone answered this in the comments. I think he said welding, and the pole is metal
Is there a reason you specifically recommend the vinyl coated wire? I’m asking because I already have non-coated wire. What difference should I expect if I went that route? Thank you for the useful content.
Non-coated could rust and fray over time. Which in turn could 1. Splinter someone with any future handling or 2. slice and/or cut into the light strand cord. The vinyl coated just holds up much better over time and (perhaps more importantly) offers safer handling.
Just use 14 ga galvanized wire, much cheaper, thinner, and just as strong
Hello Can you tell us where you were able to get the pole for the lights?
Did you cut the string lights to fit the length perfectly?
how would you handle if attaching to brick on 2 sides?
Anyone know what they used for the metal post seen at the corner at the yard space?
One thing I learned before hanging my patio lights is that a one-size-fits-all approach will lead to disappointment. Each video I watched had a different approach. The approach I went with was completely different approach from this one as it utilized removavle vertical pipes (5' or 6' long 1" diameter galvanized pipes or conduit that can easily slide in & out of 18" long 1-1/4" PVC pipes that are mounted in the earth with concrete at various locations throughout my yard/patio). These galvanized pipes/conduit with with hooks attached on the top "for the light strings to hang from" are easily removable from the PVC pipes for storage during the Winter months or if I want to change my light pattern in my yard, that too is easily accomplished since the pipes/conduit easily come out of the PVC pipe sections.
Just my two cents.
Care to share photos- I was considering something like that- utilizing powder coated slotted tubing that would slide into a cement “ pipe or holder” to allow for easier removal as required.
size of the eye bolt shaft? Assuming it's 1/4+, using a 5/16 drill to set the hole.
I was hoping to see how it was connected to the power. I would like to add these to my deck and I’m not sure how to plug or wire these in so they turn on. Thanks!
Hey Linda. Watch the end of the video. Once you put the male connection on, just plug them in. If you want a dimmer installed and tied directly into power, you will want to talk to a local electrician.
Zip tie instead of s hooks. Use UV rated zip ties. Way faster than s hooks
Any recommendations on what to use when one of your anchor points is alumawood patio cover?
Hmm. I’m honestly not sure on that one
Bolt and nut with washer
Hello any instructions on how to install the pole???
Where did you get the poles? Right now, looking at metal conduit from HD and spraying it black, but interested in where you got the poles for this project.
There's a comment I just read answering this, sorry I lost where it is lol
Go Rangers 🤙🏼
where do i get a pole like this from? and how tall is it?
What did you use for your poles?
The 120v line that you use, they are able to be cut to length? And what is the name of that wire if so, and bulb type? Thank you !
Yes. Just search string lights on 1000bulbs.com. You can pick any medium base bulb that you like.
Longview Lights have you used wintergreen Corp? For you lights?
How did you attach the wire rope to the metal pole? Did you run a separate rope for each of the 2 lengths or is it a continuos strand?
David Ross I would think its a continuous strand, as one end is tied and anchored, the other end would need to be plugged in for power. I wish they specified how they anchored it to the poll. “Looped through a carabiner” is too vague for me.
7:33 He's going to the turnbuckle.... WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
how did you attached the lights to the pole?
how much do you charge a foot or by the light?
Is there a particular reason you use S Hooks and don't just thread the wire directly through the holes on the light cord? Is the wire gage too large for the holes?
What size eye bolt did you use?
Hi Longview Lights. Great video!! What are you thoughts on putting a 2" pipe in a pot or planter instead of putting it into the ground? I was planning on filling the pot with cement to secure it in place. I have a gas line going to our grill where I need to put a post so I don't want to dig in that area.
Hey Grace. It all depends on weight. It will work (we have done it before) but the longer the strand the bigger the pot and more concrete. We always overdo what we think is necessary. The last thing you want is for the pole to blow over and break all of your lights. You can also run a couple guy wires to anchor your pole as well if you have a fence or some solid structure near. Good luck!
Little suprised to see you guys using vinyl covered cable in 2018, Dyneema doesn't rust and much lighter
Any ideas for attaching to an alumawood patio?
Honestly, I'm not sure about that. We have never installed on alumawood. I'm sorry I cant be more helpful here.
Where do you buy string lights like these that allow you to add your own plugs and create your own lengths. I can only find set lengths that cannot be customized.
www.1000bulbs.com/category/330-ft-patio-light-stringers/
Costco