One approach is to simply attach your lights to your shingles rather than your gutters.
Attach christmas lights without gutter.
There are a variety of clips that let you hang christmas lights without causing damage to your roof or sides of your home.
Bi axial shingle tab as with original shingle tabs biaxial tabs are used to attach c7 or c9 christmas string lights to roof shingles or under roof awnings.
Attach christmas lights to shingles.
What makes these clips different is their unique construction which features a flip hinge along the middle allowing for vertical or horizontal bulb orientation.
To make sure your lights hang just right and hold tight across your gutters shingles and peaks this holiday season it helps to begin with a plan.
Simply put the wire through the special.
If you have an edge on the soffet or shingles they have plastic clips that hold the wire.
The resemble spring clips used to hold metal pins in place.
Wrap lights around the trunk of a tall tree to light it without a ladder.
Once painted the nails are barely visible in the summer.
Instead use plastic clips.
Use an extension cord to run the lights to the tree and then wrap the lights around the tree trunk up until you reach the first branch leaving 6 inches 15 cm of space in between the strands of lights.
You can opt for light clips with an adhesive backing that affix directly onto the front surface of your gutter.
They work by clipping onto the gutters shingles or eaves of your home.
However do not nail or staple into the shingles to hang those lights as this could void your roof warranty.
Prior to installing them i sprayed them white to match the board so to hide them when there not being used.
I simply drive very tiny finishing nails the ones with slightly rounded heads every few feet and then used white wire ties to attach the light wires to the nails.
I used a tiny drill to make it easy to do.
By pre drilling the holes the hooks went right in.
The roof is one of the most popular locations to hang christmas lights and often the first project in any outdoor christmas display.
There s also a way to hang your lights without the gutter guard or the 3 8 inch slit coming into play at all.