Any long time Christmas light users that have tips to share ?

I have put them up along the roof line two years and both times they have gotten ice build up and the whole 70 feet comes crashing down.

I have been using the plastic shingle clips that slide under the edge of the shingles.

There must be something better I don't know about.

Indoors, inside/around the windows, LEDs, low-wattage digital timer.

Planet friendly, yet still cheers up the dark winter nights.

-ml

I put them on the outside, but clipped to the outside edge of a rain gutter. No ice build-up. LED with a warm-white glow that looks like traditional bulbs. Not that that part has anything to do with the mounting or ice.

I have lights in the windows too

When these stop working the next set will be the LED kind we'll see if these survived the fall this year after I drag them in the house to thaw.

All I have been able to find online for hanging has been the plastic "gutter" clips. I do not have gutters so the clip instructions tell you to stick them under the shingles.

I'm sure the problem is the ice build up don't know what I can do about that though.

Don't know about the fastening, but you should try this.

Bad link.

Damn. Try it now.

Yeah that would be great to clean up when all the lights fell down