Today Tuppet added some lights to the sturdy looking wireframe and it is really starting to shine. More lights will be added before installation.
Tuppet's cousin has been busy constructing a star to sit on top of our turret. We are very impressed with his work - he also constructed the mini trees in our front yard which we are very happy with. Today Tuppet added some lights to the sturdy looking wireframe and it is really starting to shine. More lights will be added before installation. The whole thing is bigger than Tuppet, who can only just reach the top.
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Yesterday I mounted a piece of strip light along the roofline. I cabletied the lights to 10mm Aluminium strip and sat the strip on the nails which held up the rope light last year. On half of the strip I also attached 6mm coro as a diffuser. The vote here is divided on whether the lights look better with or without the coro. Surprisingly Mothertuppet likes the brighter uncovered lights, while Justin thinks they could be a bit much en masse so he voted for the coro. Tuppet quite likes the coro because it is a bit more forgiving on the straightness of the lights underneath, but at the same time it is an extra bit of work and it is more obvious during the day time, so her vote is as yet undecided.
An alternative mounting method I found during my testing (it was hard to get the 2m strip over all of the hooks while on my own up a ladder) was to lay the aluminium over the nails with the strip and coro on top. The sandwich meant that the lights were very straight while the fact you could only see the side of the lights reduced the intensity and light reflections. One quirk though... somehow Red and Green are swapped somewhere, so when you tell the lights to be red they turn on green. Small wiring issue to be corrected! |
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