Hang Your Holiday Lights without Damaging Your Roof
Holidays are the perfect time for lights and decorations during peaceful winter evenings. This is the best time to spend with your friends and family and to enjoy the mesmerizing festive decorations. Well, as Holiday is just around the corner, we all are busy opening the piled-up boxes of string lights, garlands, and wintergreens in our storage rooms and testing them out for the big evening. Where there are endless decorations for the lawn and around the house, nothing is ever complete without a beautifully lit roof. While roof lighting is a must-have for the celebrations, it is very essential to take care of the structure of your roof while installing those lights. Depending on how these lights are lodged, these can cause potential damage to the roof.
Here, in this blog, is some advice that may help you with Holiday light installation without damaging the roof over your head.
Test Out the Lights First
Many people don’t pay proper attention to checking the lights and wires before putting them on. This is where the problem emerges. As the lights have not been checked beforehand, there might be a possibility of an open wire or a broken light bulb. These physical defects may cause a serious fire through an electric spark. Even a tiny spark may harm your roof and can cause a destructive fire throughout the house.
Avoid Nails
While hanging up the Holiday lights on the roof, many people prefer using nails and screws to secure the lights in place. This is an extremely dangerous act. Not only does this cause a potential electric malfunction due to the metal nails and brackets being used, it also forms holes throughout the roof that not only weaken the roof itself but the side lining as well. Roofs with holes in them are also a risk for the rainy season as the rainwater may drip down those leaks and ruin your household articles. Water passing through the roof also tends to weaken the roof overtime. It is preferably suggested to hang your Holiday lights without nails.
Clips to Hang Holiday Lights
This is the best way to hang Holiday lights on roof. Holiday light roof clips and Plastic brackets are available in the market that are strong enough to hold your decorative lights and these do not damage your roof as there is no need to drill holes in your roof to install these clips. Winter season brings in extreme moisture and the last thing you wish for is finding random molds and rots throughout the house due to a leaking roof.
Minimize Your Roof Time
Although roofs are sound enough to protect your house, the shingles are very easily breakable beneath your feet. And if we’re talking about the cold snow during the season, there is already enough snow for the roof to hold up, on top of decorations. Therefore it is recommended to spend minimum time on the roof to protect yourself from getting hurt and the roof from collapsing.
Conclusion
There’s no fun in the holidays without having a glowing Santa Claus and his reindeers gliding on your roof, or a Menorah on the front lawn. We all relish the compliments from our friends and that one look of zeal from the competing neighbors across the street. But it is very essential to take care of your roof among all the ballyhoo. If you’re concerned about the maintenance of your roof, Oxford Building Company can help you. As a builder of luxury homes and buildings both small and large, Oxford Building Company successfully executes the concept of client satisfaction in the construction industry.
We are committed to delivering our finest projects through our team of highly-skilled architects, designers, and laborers. We have always, and will continue, to bring our client’s visions to life, whether that be remodeling an existing home or structure, or starting from the ground up.
Oxford Building Company is ready to turn the festive vision of yours into reality. Contact us today to get started.