In the video, you will see a nail at the bottom of the tree that my lights are attached to. That nail has been in the tree for years so I decided to use it. I DO NOT recommend putting nails in a tree to attach your lights. All you need to do is tie the plug around the strand when you come back around for the first wrap. You can use a zip tie if that is easier for you.
Coming from someone who wraps trees for 3 months out of the year, I'd say the only major thing that might make it easier to do this process is wrapping from the tips of the branches towards the tree. It eliminates some guess work and will save you from having to use excess lights and wrap them back into themselves. Also dark or brown colored cordage to tie between the light spacing so it doesn't sag on trees with smoother bark like a beech or Japanese maple for example. All in all good work on the video!
If you start from the tip of the branch to the trunk, how do you cover the other branches? Is it a different string of lights or do you take the bulbs off?
I. Have. Got. To. Get. Some. Of. That. Wire. For years I've struggled with trying to run lights in trees and trying to figure out how to run the next set of lights so it doesn't look stupid. Thank you for showing us this. 🌲🌲🎄
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I couldn't do this, but appreciate your effort and other homeowners who go to the trouble and expense to share the joy and beauty of the season with others.
This video is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thank you SO much!! And for your links in the description. Very helpful! I can’t afford to go all out with my tree like this (even though it is exactly what I want), but maybe I will do a few strands a year until I get there. Or die first of old age. 😂😅 Your trees look phenomenal! ❤👏🏽
I priced out 5mm mini lights online and they're $26.64/each for 70-count commercial-quality lights. 79 strands times $26.64 (not including shipping of those lights) is $2,104.56. That's quite the expensive decoration for a single tree. That said, it does look amazing! Well done...
That's exactly where my mind went too. I love the design, but the expense is over the top. Also, the labor to put them up and take them down is a bit over the top.
Ya this dudes a little nuts. I thought he was saying “7 to 9” at first haha. When I realized he was saying 79 strands for one tree I decided this shit ain’t for me 😂
The ones he uses are linked in the description and much cheaper than the ones you mentioned. That being said, it’s still way outside of my budget. But I might do a few. 😅
Just the video I needed. Did not realize tree wrapping would be so technical, and now I see why I don't do it. Was on the fence, but now strongly discouraged to try this. Eave lights alone it shall be!
😮😮My friend does landscaping and lawn mowing. But he said he makes a good money in winter by setting up and taking down Halloween and Christmas decorations.
I absolutely love the look of those trees you've done up in lights! The house is so minimal, bc the trees are & imo, always should be the star of the show! **(unless you don't have trees, then shrubbery etc. Would be my 2nd, then the house or permanent human buildings or garages etc.) I will say I also love a nice light up, elevated ddck off a house, that's looks so nice too! I actually did mi e this year bc I could finally afford the lights and electric fir it lol. Your trees have so much character with all the twists & bends, it looks so beautiful and majestic at night! How wonderful to see people, young people especially. Taking thr time to pur up such beautiful Xmas lights. It holds such a pleasant sentimental place for me! Love to see them! Thank you, it was very informative and helpful! 👍🤗💯
I've been doing Christmas displays for 35 yrs, graduating year by year. The problem I've had is that the quality of products have become worse. Snow we've decided to cut back and do less. But great advice. Especially on the add a plug and wrapping the male and female to stay attached. I've also use to what I call the Burt !! Bacharach, It's a back wrap for long end wires, so your spacing stays even
Impressive! Just beautiful!! I always wondered what details were in this process. Very professional and it makes the children feel happy as well as their adult family members bringing them in to enjoy ;>
I don’t know which video we originally watched to start wrapping ours, but we’ve been wrapping ours in balls for years. It makes it easier to store without tangling all the lights, and easier to on put on trees and or bushes when you get them out every year.
Thank you for an INSANELY USEFUL video!!! I decided to put lights on my front yard tree this year, and I found your video, and WOW - Great tips, and EXCELLENT instruction. I am using many of your basic tips and insight! THANK YOU SO MUCH for taking the time to create this video! I'm getting started with the lights on my tree, and thanks to your video, it's looking GREAT so far! THANK YOU! Happy Holidays!!
Wow! Great job decorating that three. Looks amazing! Thank you for taking the time to upload this video and for teaching us how do measure. New subscriber.
Been wanting to light the Japanese maple which would look great but not take nearly as many lights. I had kind of figured out how to do it but his video has several tips I would not have thought of. Just wish it was warm enough here to wear shorts and a t-shirt while I do it. lol
Wow! What an amazing job! I'd hire you in a heartbeat because you're as much about perfection as me! Also, you just gave me the confidence I need to try these vampire plugs. Thank you!
Too many strands on the same wire in series is the problem. So what he did is split it into two seperate parts, trunk and one side and then the other two sides from that second plug. He joined them together at base for ease of use and clean look. If he put to many strings in a series it may blow since the string light wires may not be able to handle all the amperage over such a long distance. Hope that clears it up. :)
You are right. As soon as he added the plug at the bottom they are now one single string of lights. but the lamp cord can handle a lot more current than the the lights, so by branching off the lamp cord it's fine. Just like using a thicker extension cord with multiple outlets can connect even more strings. You do have to be careful not to exceed the current rating of the strands or you will blow a fuse, most led light strands have a 3 amp fuse.
I wrap a Palo Verde trunk with tiny encased diffused yellow leds. Most stay on but 1 in 5 randomly pulse off and back on slowly.About 200 a strand and the trunk is (this year) about 5" in diameter shrinking to about 4" where it splits off the main branches. Each strand wraps around at least 20 times. I tie-tie the beginning at the bottom and spiral up about 4 fingers apart. The branches I then go up one about 8 fingers apart and then come back down in the middle for the branches until I run out of lights. took me two years to figure that out. Using tie-ties to hold in place. I don't mind not having a helper to put them up, but un-wrapping to take down is a pain. I think, I am going to figure out a way to run lengthwise to get the same effect but avoid the wrapping. 14 wraps doesn't even get to the branches, but they sure look great.
Many apprecatiosn for your share and great video. It's first time for me. I didn't know how to do. It's very helpfule for me. Thank you so much again! Happy Christmas to you!
I have to say it looks inviting as if it was a Hallmark card picture you did an awesome job man I'm sending all these to my wife and of course it's now on the to-do list thanks LOL
you have 2 options A) good art takes time, put in some earbuds and listen to some new music a podcast or a book on tape. enjoy the feeling of accomplishment and a job well done. B) smoke a fat bleezy and cut that tree down, wood chip it into a flowerbed. and never worry about the hours you could have lost!! C) be the somebody (who invents the easy method) and rake in the cash D) throw money at it and hire a bro liek the one in the video, but i bet hes not cheap, cause inflation is rediculous. i hang my own lights, not a 1/4 as good as the video, but i just dont care as much. some people are all about it, some dont even have a tree. christmas is a long dead fake dudes birthday anyway, weve just made it into a reason to buy tons of shit to give our friends n family.
@@CTChipmunk haha idk man iv watched alot of stuff on religion. closest thing i can find to true is bob marley love is my religion. to me nothing beats love, love everyone for everything. where i get upset is why dont these religious people actually do something with the money instead of building better bigger churches meet in a field, use every penny to build houses for the people without, feed those who need. how much does a church cost? how many could be fed or housed with that? if they (religious people) really thought their god was that amazing and powerful. they could sweat a sermon out for the betterment of others. i just see a buncha fake jerks attending some performance by somebody who doesnt want an actual job. but thats whatever.thats just how I (ME) feels about it. people can do what they want, aslong as they dont hurt or restrict fellow humans or animals, its a free country. hope your having a good day chip. and ted (iknow your getting notifications too 😂) spread that love yall, we all stuck up in this bitch (nobodys leavin earth anytime soon we dont all get to choose our lives as much as we think, born in middle east? im sure customs are different then im used to, born in england? i bet we look crazy accross thr pond but we are all humans just tryna make it) my original comment might have sounded rowdy, i was just tryna add some perspective :p im a happy nice gent :]
Im cringing at the memory of me at 15 asking the math teach "When am I ever going to use Algebra in real life?". Using the circumferance to calculate strand length is super smart!
Thanks for the great video! The formula was awesome. What would you charge per tree for an installation like this? Parts and Labor. I saw a nail at the bottom. Does that hurt the tree?
That nail has been there for a few years so I just decided to attach the lights to it. I would not recommend putting a nail in the tree, but that depends on the type of tree. You can just tie the end around the strand when you come back around for the first wrap. When it comes to pricing, everyone is different but it can be over $2500 to pay a professional to do something like this.
Hi Jordan, thanks for posting this video. lots of good information here. just want to make sure i understand this as far as cost. at the last section of this video you show a tree that took 79 strands of 70 count mini lights. so for me to figure how much it cost to do that tree i would take a the cost per strand on your site ($12.50) x 79 and it would run a total of about $987.00 per tree right?
Yes, that is correct. Also you can also buy a 50 pack on the website which will save you some money instead of buying individual strands. For example you can buy the 50 pack then 19 individual strands. Of course it all depends on the tree size and how many strands you will need. If you have any other questions, feel free to email us.
Thanks for an amazing video! Can you do a video of how to wrap around joints where the trunk splits into two? Mine keep getting loose and sagging over time. Haha
Great work! I put lights on our trees but not as many as your examples. It took me a long time to dismantle them after the New Year. How long did these take to put on? I may wrap them on the base and 2 or 3 branches to save time next time.
@@holidaylightingcreations after leaving them up for two years, are they still good? Does the UV break the insulation down? Do you unwrap the lights or cut them out? Is this the same for customer trees?
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In the video, you will see a nail at the bottom of the tree that my lights are attached to. That nail has been in the tree for years so I decided to use it. I DO NOT recommend putting nails in a tree to attach your lights. All you need to do is tie the plug around the strand when you come back around for the first wrap. You can use a zip tie if that is easier for you.
Coming from someone who wraps trees for 3 months out of the year, I'd say the only major thing that might make it easier to do this process is wrapping from the tips of the branches towards the tree. It eliminates some guess work and will save you from having to use excess lights and wrap them back into themselves. Also dark or brown colored cordage to tie between the light spacing so it doesn't sag on trees with smoother bark like a beech or Japanese maple for example. All in all good work on the video!
If you start from the tip of the branch to the trunk, how do you cover the other branches? Is it a different string of lights or do you take the bulbs off?
How do you price out trees?
If you make your own video, I'll watch the hell out of it
I. Have. Got. To. Get. Some. Of. That. Wire. For years I've struggled with trying to run lights in trees and trying to figure out how to run the next set of lights so it doesn't look stupid. Thank you for showing us this. 🌲🌲🎄
Just went and got some today. We have about 50 trees pit in our yard and this is going to save a lot of time on the next batch we do.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I couldn't do this, but appreciate your effort and other homeowners who go to the trouble and expense to share the joy and beauty of the season with others.
This video is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thank you SO much!! And for your links in the description. Very helpful! I can’t afford to go all out with my tree like this (even though it is exactly what I want), but maybe I will do a few strands a year until I get there. Or die first of old age. 😂😅 Your trees look phenomenal! ❤👏🏽
Those trees have a great shape to them too. Makes them look even better. Awesome job on them!
The simplest of holiday lighting is still the most exquisite. Just stunning!
DUDE That's alot of work. But It STUNNING>>!! FANTASTIC..
This video should have THOUSANDS more views! Thanks for the formulas and showing the entire process! This looks fantastic!
I priced out 5mm mini lights online and they're $26.64/each for 70-count commercial-quality lights. 79 strands times $26.64 (not including shipping of those lights) is $2,104.56. That's quite the expensive decoration for a single tree. That said, it does look amazing! Well done...
And the pain of taking it down later.
That's exactly where my mind went too. I love the design, but the expense is over the top. Also, the labor to put them up and take them down is a bit over the top.
Ya this dudes a little nuts. I thought he was saying “7 to 9” at first haha. When I realized he was saying 79 strands for one tree I decided this shit ain’t for me 😂
The ones he uses are linked in the description and much cheaper than the ones you mentioned. That being said, it’s still way outside of my budget. But I might do a few. 😅
I bet he does this as a business for folks who can afford it.
Just the video I needed. Did not realize tree wrapping would be so technical, and now I see why I don't do it. Was on the fence, but now strongly discouraged to try this. Eave lights alone it shall be!
Can you tell us why you don't encourage trying?
😮😮My friend does landscaping and lawn mowing. But he said he makes a good money in winter by setting up and taking down Halloween and Christmas decorations.
I absolutely love the look of those trees you've done up in lights! The house is so minimal, bc the trees are & imo, always should be the star of the show! **(unless you don't have trees, then shrubbery etc. Would be my 2nd, then the house or permanent human buildings or garages etc.) I will say I also love a nice light up, elevated ddck off a house, that's looks so nice too! I actually did mi e this year bc I could finally afford the lights and electric fir it lol. Your trees have so much character with all the twists & bends, it looks so beautiful and majestic at night! How wonderful to see people, young people especially. Taking thr time to pur up such beautiful Xmas lights. It holds such a pleasant sentimental place for me! Love to see them! Thank you, it was very informative and helpful! 👍🤗💯
I've been doing Christmas displays for 35 yrs, graduating year by year. The problem I've had is that the quality of products have become worse. Snow we've decided to cut back and do less. But great advice. Especially on the add a plug and wrapping the male and female to stay attached. I've also use to what I call the Burt !! Bacharach, It's a back wrap for long end wires, so your spacing stays even
I love this idea, I would never take these lights down, they can be used year-round!!
I agree...they would look nice all year round! 👍🏻
The sun will bake them. They aren't made for prolonged UV exposure. Granted they will have some degree of protection once the leaves come on.
Not to mention the tree grows
@@mandov5916 that's why you use stretchy cords
Seriously, I’ve always wondered how this was done! Now I know! Too much math for me 😁 Thank you for the share!
Beautiful..... I love the beautiful lights and so professional looking. You did an amazing job. Thank you for sharing.
Very helpful to do my tree and I felt like I was in the Hill Country at Christmas Time.
Man, this was incredibly informative. Thank you sir.
Great instructions! Looks beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
That is magical. Absolutely beautiful.
I always wanted to learn how to do that. I’m glad I found your video. Thank you for sharing!
Impressive! Just beautiful!! I always wondered what details were in this process. Very professional and it makes the children feel happy as well as their adult family members bringing them in to enjoy ;>
Great video! Do you have a video showing how to prep the light strands to make them easier to unroll as you work around the tree?
I don’t know which video we originally watched to start wrapping ours, but we’ve been wrapping ours in balls for years. It makes it easier to store without tangling all the lights, and easier to on put on trees and or bushes when you get them out every year.
Truly breathtaking I could stare at those trees forever
Thank you for an INSANELY USEFUL video!!! I decided to put lights on my front yard tree this year, and I found your video, and WOW - Great tips, and EXCELLENT instruction. I am using many of your basic tips and insight! THANK YOU SO MUCH for taking the time to create this video! I'm getting started with the lights on my tree, and thanks to your video, it's looking GREAT so far! THANK YOU! Happy Holidays!!
Wow, that looks awesome! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
The lighted trees are like gigantic table lamps.
Dude that is absolutely spectacular! Killer job!
Wow! Great job decorating that three. Looks amazing! Thank you for taking the time to upload this video and for teaching us how do measure. New subscriber.
Did you drop out of school in the 5th grade?
@@DiffEQ did that comment make you feel any better? Just curious.
Beautiful! Looking forward for more videos. Christmas season is around the corner.
what an excellent job!
Thank you so much for this video!! I love this trees!! So Beautiful!! Wow!!🌲
your trees look beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for tips
Thank you for the teaching. Great examples! 🌲
Great tips, thank you! I think that with all the time and trouble, I'd just leave them year-round.
Please come to Delaware 😂 and make my trees as beautiful as yours are ❤
Beautiful👍🏻
Wow! Stunning!
Hi, and Merry Xmas 2022! From the uk so I’m guessing you guys would say “Happy Holidays”! Your tress looks absolutely beautiful!!! X
Been wanting to light the Japanese maple which would look great but not take nearly as many lights. I had kind of figured out how to do it but his video has several tips I would not have thought of. Just wish it was warm enough here to wear shorts and a t-shirt while I do it. lol
I ain't got enough coffee in me right now to follow along with the math 😩😭. I'll be back in 8 hours ☕.
Looks amazing! Lights have gotten so expensive these days though! I can't imagine using 79 strings on one tree! Although I love it!
@jamesoy900 that's true, I've done that a few times before!
Damn... that tree looks amazing; great job
Thank you so much for this! Keep up the great work
Thanks for the demo and links!
Wow! What an amazing job! I'd hire you in a heartbeat because you're as much about perfection as me! Also, you just gave me the confidence I need to try these vampire plugs. Thank you!
I thought you didn’t want all those lights on the same wire but the. At the end you connected them all to the same wire? What am I missing?
Too many strands on the same wire in series is the problem. So what he did is split it into two seperate parts, trunk and one side and then the other two sides from that second plug. He joined them together at base for ease of use and clean look. If he put to many strings in a series it may blow since the string light wires may not be able to handle all the amperage over such a long distance. Hope that clears it up. :)
You are right. As soon as he added the plug at the bottom they are now one single string of lights. but the lamp cord can handle a lot more current than the the lights, so by branching off the lamp cord it's fine. Just like using a thicker extension cord with multiple outlets can connect even more strings. You do have to be careful not to exceed the current rating of the strands or you will blow a fuse, most led light strands have a 3 amp fuse.
I wrap a Palo Verde trunk with tiny encased diffused yellow leds. Most stay on but 1 in 5 randomly pulse off and back on slowly.About 200 a strand and the trunk is (this year) about 5" in diameter shrinking to about 4" where it splits off the main branches. Each strand wraps around at least 20 times. I tie-tie the beginning at the bottom and spiral up about 4 fingers apart. The branches I then go up one about 8 fingers apart and then come back down in the middle for the branches until I run out of lights. took me two years to figure that out. Using tie-ties to hold in place. I don't mind not having a helper to put them up, but un-wrapping to take down is a pain.
I think, I am going to figure out a way to run lengthwise to get the same effect but avoid the wrapping. 14 wraps doesn't even get to the branches, but they sure look great.
Many apprecatiosn for your share and great video. It's first time for me. I didn't know how to do. It's very helpfule for me. Thank you so much again! Happy Christmas to you!
I have to say it looks inviting as if it was a Hallmark card picture you did an awesome job man I'm sending all these to my wife and of course it's now on the to-do list thanks LOL
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing your expertise
WOW what a fabulous video. Nicely done. Does look like some work to get this task done, but very impressive
I’ll add the obligatory: Ain’t nobody got time for that!! 😂. But seriously, this looks awesome! Superb work :)
Wahhhhh so nice
Looks so Beautiful!!!!!!
Beautiful!
Beautiful and great tips
Wonderful video, I'm in! Question... do you leave them up year round once wrapped? If not, any tips for taking the lights off?
Dude. Thank you!!! Greatest Christmas light video ever
holy crap I would pay someone just to do the math!! thank you this was awesome
You did a great job wrapping the tree. You make it look easy but it actually takes a LOT of time. Somebody needs to come up with a faster method! 😳
you have 2 options
A) good art takes time, put in some earbuds and listen to some new music a podcast or a book on tape. enjoy the feeling of accomplishment and a job well done.
B) smoke a fat bleezy and cut that tree down, wood chip it into a flowerbed. and never worry about the hours you could have lost!!
C) be the somebody (who invents the easy method) and rake in the cash
D) throw money at it and hire a bro liek the one in the video, but i bet hes not cheap, cause inflation is rediculous.
i hang my own lights, not a 1/4 as good as the video, but i just dont care as much. some people are all about it, some dont even have a tree. christmas is a long dead fake dudes birthday anyway, weve just made it into a reason to buy tons of shit to give our friends n family.
@@soziggedout8452 go watch the movie "The Case For Christ" based on a true story of an atheist journalist working for the Chicago Tribune.
@@CTChipmunk haha idk man iv watched alot of stuff on religion. closest thing i can find to true is bob marley love is my religion. to me nothing beats love, love everyone for everything.
where i get upset is why dont these religious people actually do something with the money instead of building better bigger churches meet in a field, use every penny to build houses for the people without, feed those who need. how much does a church cost? how many could be fed or housed with that? if they (religious people) really thought their god was that amazing and powerful. they could sweat a sermon out for the betterment of others. i just see a buncha fake jerks attending some performance by somebody who doesnt want an actual job.
but thats whatever.thats just how I (ME) feels about it. people can do what they want, aslong as they dont hurt or restrict fellow humans or animals, its a free country.
hope your having a good day chip. and ted (iknow your getting notifications too 😂) spread that love yall, we all stuck up in this bitch (nobodys leavin earth anytime soon we dont all get to choose our lives as much as we think, born in middle east? im sure customs are different then im used to, born in england? i bet we look crazy accross thr pond but we are all humans just tryna make it)
my original comment might have sounded rowdy, i was just tryna add some perspective :p im a happy nice gent :]
Beautiful. Thank you for your leadership. I can tell you are a master!
Thank you so much, you are doing an amazing job and best wishes with your new business!!
Bruh .. mvp award.
Incredible…wow!!! 🤩
Forget about the house, the trees will do. Thank you for sharing this, I did not know where to start.
Outstanding job 👍👍👍
Looks great! Do you have outlets at each of your trees or are they all ran to extension cords to the house?
Extension cords
Im cringing at the memory of me at 15 asking the math teach "When am I ever going to use Algebra in real life?". Using the circumferance to calculate strand length is super smart!
Great job, it would be nice if cities spent more money on lighting trees during holidays, or year round IDK
AGREE!
Thanks for sharing. You did an amazing job. Cheers.
So beautiful!! ♥ ♥ ♥
So is this for the holidays or allyear?
I love it
Love the outdoor waterproof electrical safety in America 👀
Honey, im gunna put up the christmas lights!!
Ok dear, see you next month.
Beautiful!!!
AMaziNg job!!!!❤
So beautiful !
Thank you so much for that! That was very helpful. I've been wanting to know this information for years!!
LEGEND!!
This is awesome
Great job. Thanks for sharing.
so beautiful wow!
It looks great, but how do you prevent water ingress? It looks like those connectors aren't waterproof?
That's an awesome tree!
How long did that take you
Incredible 👍🏻👍🏻👊🏻👊🏻
Thanks for the great video! The formula was awesome. What would you charge per tree for an installation like this? Parts and Labor. I saw a nail at the bottom. Does that hurt the tree?
That nail has been there for a few years so I just decided to attach the lights to it. I would not recommend putting a nail in the tree, but that depends on the type of tree. You can just tie the end around the strand when you come back around for the first wrap. When it comes to pricing, everyone is different but it can be over $2500 to pay a professional to do something like this.
Really great job. I so enjoy enjoy Christmas decorations.
Amazing!
Wow you are amazing!!!
You’re an animal!!!!! Happy Holidays..
Hi Jordan, thanks for posting this video. lots of good information here. just want to make sure i understand this as far as cost.
at the last section of this video you show a tree that took 79 strands of 70 count mini lights. so for me to figure how much it cost to do that tree i would take a the cost per strand on your site ($12.50) x 79 and it would run a total of about $987.00 per tree right?
Yes, that is correct. Also you can also buy a 50 pack on the website which will save you some money instead of buying individual strands. For example you can buy the 50 pack then 19 individual strands. Of course it all depends on the tree size and how many strands you will need. If you have any other questions, feel free to email us.
Great video! Do you have examples of different types of lights you have tried on outdoor tree wraps? Solid vs. twinkle vs. color vs. etc. etc.
I do trees in all colors. Red or green trees look awesome in my opinion.
Thanks for an amazing video! Can you do a video of how to wrap around joints where the trunk splits into two? Mine keep getting loose and sagging over time. Haha
Great work! I put lights on our trees but not as many as your examples. It took me a long time to dismantle them after the New Year. How long did these take to put on? I may wrap them on the base and 2 or 3 branches to save time next time.
It took me about a day for this tree.
Gorgeous! Thanks!
bEAUTIFUL! AND MAGICAL!
Is tuff to take the lights down when the season is over? Looks good!
Take down is much faster but I leave them up two years before I take them down. It doesn't affect the tree or the lights.
@@holidaylightingcreations after leaving them up for two years, are they still good? Does the UV break the insulation down? Do you unwrap the lights or cut them out?
Is this the same for customer trees?
Amazing look. How expensive is the electric bill?
Goes up a few dollars since it is all led