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Anyone have any tips on how to take care of prelit trees? I got one second hand and the lights dont work...
Absolutely have a tip! This comes from a person with decades of experience decorating trees and spent a good 7 year stint with a major Christmas manufacturer.
NEVER. BUY. A. PRE-LIT. TREE! There are two components to your tree. The tree itself - branch count, tip count, tree type, style and shape, height, etc. Then there are the lights - count, size, spread, features, etc. Your tree? Will never break if taken care of properly. Your lights? Will break, inevitability, no matter how careful you care for them.
Buy an unlit tree as an investment. Buy lights separately so when they go bad, you can switch them out. Your tree remains pristine. You can stay flexible with lights.
Absolutely have a tip! This comes from a person with decades of experience decorating trees and spent a good 7 year stint with a major Christmas manufacturer.
NEVER. BUY. A. PRE-LIT. TREE! There are two components to your tree. The tree itself - branch count, tip count, tree type, style and shape, height, etc. Then there are the lights - count, size, spread, features, etc. Your tree? Will never break if taken care of properly. Your lights? Will break, inevitability, no matter how careful you care for them.
Buy an unlit tree as an investment. Buy lights separately so when they go bad, you can switch them out. Your tree remains pristine. You can stay flexible with lights.
Merry Christmas!!
Disagree entirely. What a hassle to string lights, and they always looks much worse than pre lit. The lights are going to last much longer than the tree is going to look good for. No one should be putting up a 10 year old tree.
If something happens, just have basically electrical knowledge and can figure out how the tree is wired, and diagnose either a cut wire or dead lamp and fix it very easily.
Disagree entirely. What a hassle to string lights, and they always looks much worse than pre lit. The lights are going to last much longer than the tree is going to look good for. No one should be putting up a 10 year old tree.
If something happens, just have basically electrical knowledge and can figure out how the tree is wired, and diagnose either a cut wire or dead lamp and fix it very easily.
LOL, no one should put up a 10 year old tree? Whut you talking about willis?? Reiterating my previous experience with a massive Christmas manufacture, our professional tree decorators only used unlit trees, and these trees were used for years! Proper care for a quality tree can last a lifetime. Look up Balsam hill trees. I've had mine for over 10 years now and it is just as fluffy and beautiful as the day it arrived.
I guess to each their own, of course, but my time is valuable and hutting down an errant light is not at the top of my list of activities to engage in, especially when it requires navigating the tree itself to find it.
LOL, no one should put up a 10 year old tree? Whut you talking about willis?? Reiterating my previous experience with a massive Christmas manufacture, our professional tree decorators only used unlit trees, and these trees were used for years! Proper care for a quality tree can last a lifetime. Look up Balsam hill trees. I've had mine for over 10 years now and it is just as fluffy and beautiful as the day it arrived.
I guess to each their own, of course, but my time is valuable and hutting down an errant light is not at the top of my list of activities to engage in, especially when it requires navigating the tree itself to find it.
We are on Slickdeals, I assumed we were talking about subpar tree quality.
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NEVER. BUY. A. PRE-LIT. TREE! There are two components to your tree. The tree itself - branch count, tip count, tree type, style and shape, height, etc. Then there are the lights - count, size, spread, features, etc. Your tree? Will never break if taken care of properly. Your lights? Will break, inevitability, no matter how careful you care for them.
Buy an unlit tree as an investment. Buy lights separately so when they go bad, you can switch them out. Your tree remains pristine. You can stay flexible with lights.
Merry Christmas!!
Absolutely have a tip! This comes from a person with decades of experience decorating trees and spent a good 7 year stint with a major Christmas manufacturer.
NEVER. BUY. A. PRE-LIT. TREE! There are two components to your tree. The tree itself - branch count, tip count, tree type, style and shape, height, etc. Then there are the lights - count, size, spread, features, etc. Your tree? Will never break if taken care of properly. Your lights? Will break, inevitability, no matter how careful you care for them.
Buy an unlit tree as an investment. Buy lights separately so when they go bad, you can switch them out. Your tree remains pristine. You can stay flexible with lights.
Merry Christmas!!
If something happens, just have basically electrical knowledge and can figure out how the tree is wired, and diagnose either a cut wire or dead lamp and fix it very easily.
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If something happens, just have basically electrical knowledge and can figure out how the tree is wired, and diagnose either a cut wire or dead lamp and fix it very easily.
I guess to each their own, of course, but my time is valuable and hutting down an errant light is not at the top of my list of activities to engage in, especially when it requires navigating the tree itself to find it.
LOL, no one should put up a 10 year old tree? Whut you talking about willis?? Reiterating my previous experience with a massive Christmas manufacture, our professional tree decorators only used unlit trees, and these trees were used for years! Proper care for a quality tree can last a lifetime. Look up Balsam hill trees. I've had mine for over 10 years now and it is just as fluffy and beautiful as the day it arrived.
I guess to each their own, of course, but my time is valuable and hutting down an errant light is not at the top of my list of activities to engage in, especially when it requires navigating the tree itself to find it.
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