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CMKKS 12-15-2021 08:53 PM

My family traditionally cuts wood strups to size for each stretch where you want lights. Paint the wood to match your home. Attached the lights with Command hooks. Then all you have to do is drill holes into the end of the wood strips and matching hooks into your home. You just put the strips up every year, quick and easy.

Golfer222 12-16-2021 08:49 AM

How do you attach the wood strip to the house?

DAVES 12-16-2021 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by villagetinker (Post 2019752)
I would use a small concrete drill and small plastic inserts with suitable hooks, or you can use the plastic inserts with stainless steel hooks. I have done several of these type installations on our house. If these will be exposed to rain, I add a silicone sealer before inserting the plastic insert, and then after the insert is in place to seal the hole as much as possible.

This seems to have been reborn. We just had our stucco home repainted and I have a few
things hung from those plastic plugs. To avoid then patching the holes or filling the plug with paint, I found that the bamboo shiscabob sticks I had fit perfectly. I cut a six inch piece and sharpened the end with a pencil sharpener. I tapped it into the plastic plug with a light hammer and then cut it off, 1/4 inch proud with sharp pruning sheers. What was cut off, back into the pencil sharpener sand used to cover the next plug. Quicker to do than to describe. It worked fine. Grab the end with pliers and it pulls right out leaving the reusable plug. Surely a dowel stick would work as well.

mgb10155 12-16-2021 12:59 PM

You could try hot melt glue. It won't put a hole in the stucco like some other suggestions.
I would try a spot in an inconspicuous spot first.
Good luck!

Koapaka 12-16-2021 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by philoret (Post 2019998)
New type of removable tape: Alien Tape in hardware stores, ACE etc. Not adhesive exactly, some nano tech thing. Strong grip. See ads.

It is amazing. that snot kind of stuff that catalogs and magazines put stuff in with....that stuff will hold small children to the wall I swear!


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