How To Put Christmas Lights On Roof Tiles

Lights may be strung from rooflines gutters and tiles but be wary that different surfaces require different light clips for attachments.

How to put christmas lights on roof tiles.

You don t want to damage your roof or your roof might already be damaged and putting up christmas decorations will further destroy its integrity leading to roof replacement. Simple and quick install. Dry fit the t or x fitting to the joiners add the 45 degree elbows then a six inch leg on each end. From one of our customers who has a fantastic clay roof.

If you wanted to hang the lights from the roof and you do not have gutters on your home you could then nail small nails into the face place of the soffit or on the edge of the roof line. Fans of the movie christmas vacation will recall clark griswold putting up his lights with his trusty staple gun. Ridges built into the clip help to hold it in place without applying enough pressure to damage the roofing tile. We have clay shingles with no gutters.

Seriously we ve seen real damage done to homes because someone hung christmas lights on their roof using nails or staples. The light clips to one end and the other end clips to a roof tile. You can see all of our clips at this. Tips for hanging christmas lights to avoid roof damage don t put holes in your roof.

Simple and quick install. Happy new year here are some photos of our application. Ridges built into the clip help to hold it in place without applying enough pressure to damage the roofing tile. Robert in california the lights on this house were installed w.

See the wide variety of commercial grade clips that are available to install your christmas lights along your roof line. Lights can be attached to slate flat or barrel style roof tiles using a tile roof clip. We chose to dry fit all fittings to allow pieces to be moves while on the roof if any tweaks needed to be made. Using the formula in the previous step cut 2 x six inch legs for each stand and 2 x 1 5 inch joiners.

If you do not think you have the strength or skill set to hang christmas lights yourself you could always hire a christmas light installer to hang them for you.