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How many Primers put Christmas lights up?
- Thread starter Matt Knight
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Don't laugh, I don't have time to mess around so my Xmas Tree has been up since 2006. My Mother just comes over and changes it while I am gone. This will be my First Xmas in 6yrs here at the house and with Immediate Family. The tree has scooted from one area to another over the years.
LMAO gil!!!!!
No decorations anywhere for me... inside or outside. Just dont care.
I don't seem to have the time or energy to do Christmas lights but we always have a tree.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Nine 4w bulbs... Everything else goes to NSX parts...
Our display this year:
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Crappy night time shot but you get the point. My wife mandates all bulbs be straight. Easy on the gutters to clip them but the peaks don't have gutters, so it takes oodles of staples as the lights want to point in any/every direction possible. It's hard to tell, but the peak on the second story is over a covered porch, so the only way to access it is to lean over the peak or put a ladder on the roof of the porch
. Every year I'm grateful i don't break something.
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turned on thanksgiving night , this is how it should be done , last 27 yrs, end of story!
The clips I use work on gutters and roof edges. I think I found them at WalMart. There is a pointy end that slides under the shingle edge.
It's hard to tell, but the peak on the second story is over a covered porch, so the only way to access it is to lean over the peak or put a ladder on the roof of the porch
I'm Seriously thinking of hiring one of those lighting installers next year...
If you can afford to you'll never look back
To this extent:
Very nice.
BTW - i like your countertop. Would that be Brazilian Brown Silestone?
I usually do the lights and lawn ornaments (not the blow up ones that look like dirty laundry on the lawn when they are deflated). Unfortunately Sandy destroyed my house so this year I wont even be able to live in it let alone have any lights.
The Hotel I am currently living in does have a small tree in the lobby
The Hotel I am currently living in does have a small tree in the lobby
No, it's granite. (Keeping this tangent brief, for those that are interested...) Silestone is a brand name of natural quartz; one of its advantages is its consistency of color from one piece to another. Granite is natural stone, but it does not have the uniformity and consistency of Silestone (or some other materials). When you select granite, you typically look at the actual individual slabs, because of the amount of variation for a given color. What's more, with granite, is that different stoneyards may use different names for the same coloration, so there's no uniformity of naming, either. The slabs we got for our counters came from Brazil and the place we got them called them "Spectrolite Brown". It's a form of labradorite. Thanks for noticing it - it was the most troublesome material in our kitchen project, as we looked in 25-30 different stoneyards before finding one we both really loved.
I have Nixie tubes in a window, wired to show my house number--not that
you can read it from the street without binoculars. Altogether they draw
two watts and I leave them on all year 'round.
Admittedly this is only peripherally related to the topic of this thread,
but it is lighting on the exterior of the house for decoration.
you can read it from the street without binoculars. Altogether they draw
two watts and I leave them on all year 'round.
Admittedly this is only peripherally related to the topic of this thread,
but it is lighting on the exterior of the house for decoration.