Where should you not hang Christmas lights?

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If you don't have access to an outdoor outlet, you may find it challenging to light up your home this holiday season. Remember that you can't run Christmas lights or extension cords through windows or doors.

Where should Christmas lights go?

The most popular way to attach these is to string them along your ceiling and down the corners of your walls, but you can definitely get creative and use them in other ways. (A lot of people like to put them under or behind furniture for a backlit look.

What are some of the safety rules of using Christmas lights?

Do Christmas lights go around the tree or up and down?

Starting at the top of the tree, intertwine the lights on top of and under branches. Work your way down and around the tree, hanging lights in the back as well. When you reach the bottom, hide any extra lights behind the tree.

Do Christmas lights attract burglars?

"People who leave their lights on during the day and they're on 24 hours a day actually attract attention from burglars," says Samantha Nolan, a Citywide Neighborhood Watch trainer for Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department.

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Should I leave my outside Christmas lights on all night?

If Christmas lights are left on for too long, they can get hot and become a fire hazard. For this reason, turn your lights off when you go to sleep or leave your home, says Sharon Cooksey, fire safety educator at Kidde.

How do you know where to put down lights?

As a rule of thumb, we suggest you divide your ceiling height by 2 to give you the space required between each downlight. For example if your ceiling is 8 foot high, then position your lights 4 feet apart. Again, this is only a guideline and you will get a feel for what works best in your individual space.

How many Christmas lights should be on the front of the house?

For Front Only

Use two strands of 32-foot mini lights, for a total of 200 lights, for either an average- or small-sized house. If you prefer the larger-bulb C9 lights in 16-foot lengths, double the number of strands. So, you would use four strands of C9s, for a total of 100 lights.

When should you stop using Christmas lights?

You can take them down anytime after New Year's Day, but before January 6^th—that's Three Kings Day and the last of the 12 days of Christmas. Even if your lights celebrate a different faith this holiday season, the Black-Friday-to-Three-Kings-Day window is still a great guideline.

Do Christmas lights get hot enough to start a fire?

What about the heat from the lights? Mythbusters already tried setting a Christmas tree on fire using only the heat from the bulbs. It's impossible.

Should you unplug Christmas tree lights at night?

While it might seem like a festive treat for the neighbors, it could lead to problems for your home and electricity over time. Before leaving lights on, check the label to determine whether the bulbs and wattage can handle a long night of illumination. Generally, we recommend turning them off before bed.

Can you put Christmas lights on the grass?

It's the holiday season and you want to put some Christmas decorations up on your lawn. Nothing too fancy – just some lights and a couple of inflatables. No big deal, right? It's true they won't harm your lawn.

Where should lights be placed in a family room?

Why do people hang Christmas lights on their house?

As the lights became affordable to more people in the 1940s and 1950s, people decorated their houses to symbolize the Christmas star that was supposed to have led the Three Wise Men to the manger where Jesus was born on Christmas Day. The outdoor displays have become a symbol of the Christmas season.

Can Christmas lights be too much?

The reality is, unless you pull a Griswold, you're probably not in danger of circuit overload from Christmas lights. Most residential circuits can carry 15 or 20 amps, which means you would need to plug at least 90 strands of LED lights into a single circuit before you reach the tripping point.

Do permanent Christmas lights add value to your home?

Permanent Christmas lights can add value to your home when planned and installed right. They can help you highlight unique decor or materials used in the building of your home. Permanent holiday lights can also boost your home's curb appeal.

Can you put hanging lights anywhere?

A pendant light fixture can be mounted as the central fixture in almost any room. Or one or more can be used to light a corridor or hallway.

Should lights be in front or behind?

Natural light is almost always better than artificial light. (Artificial light comes in a lot of different color temperatures that aren't noticeable to your eye, but look wonky on camera.) Make sure the light source is in front of you, not behind you, so you don't get accidentally silhouetted.

Where should you position up and down lights?

But usually a mounting height of 1.60 to 1.70 m is taken as the standard. You should install a wall light around eye level, this avoids glare because viewing right into the light source is not possible. This of course applies to up-and-down or up/down lighters, wall lights with indirect light.

Should I unplug Christmas lights in the rain?

Cyr said. “Make sure where everything plugs in is dry and not exposed to the elements because the electricity still goes through the equipment and the light portion, what goes outside is what's important.” He said Christmas lights are meant to be used outside, they will be fine in rainy conditions.

Do Christmas lights increase electric bill?

If Christmas enthusiasts light their decorations from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. each day from Dec. 1 through Dec. 31, here's how much your bill could jump per month, according to a Southern California Edison spokesperson: Average decorations with LED lights: $5 to $7 increase.

Should you unplug outdoor Christmas lights at night?

If Christmas lights are left on for too long, they can get hot and become a fire hazard. For this reason, turn your lights off when you go to sleep or leave your home, says Sharon Cooksey, fire safety educator at Kidde.

What makes a house attractive to burglars?

High privacy hedges, bushes, and walls around the property. Outdated window and door frames, as well as sliding glass doors or cheap wooden doors. Packages or mail stacking up on a porch or even recycling left out before collection could indicate you have recently gone out of town.