videoman3857
Full time elf
Last year We had string lights running the ridge cap of our 4 bay carport, the house and the gazebo that hides our two 10,000 gallon water supply tanks.
They were held in place on the hot tin roof with Black EZIFIX Saddles and ties.
http://www.drillcut.com.au/product-group/234/category/177a
The adhesive on these babies is fantastic. The base uses the same adhesive that is used to hold the tiles onto the space shuttle. For best adhesion, EziFix recommends the use of a surface primer and a pressure applicator.
This year we will do the same, but this time we will be filling the roof areas with white led strings running up and down the ridges of the roofing iron. - that's a lot of LED's.
After a couple of days research, I spent most of today on the roof putting up 20 mm electrical conduit at the ridge and gutter ends of the roof so I can hook the strings up and down the roof. As I have to "Play around" with marking conduit, taking back down to safe work areas, drill and screw sections, check alignments back up on the roof and then take it all back down again to paint it, I decided to use 20 mm plastic conduit mounting clips.
I shopped around for these wee beasts and ended up finding them to be the cheapest (and best style) at Bunnings who sell 2 for 38 cents. http://www.bunnings.com.au/deta-20mm-conduit-mounting-clip-2-pack_p4330822
The best I could find on the net was 5 for $1 from China - then I had to pay freight and wait 28 days.
These are fantastic little beasts, so easy to use and best of all - no fiddling around with cable ties.
As a foot note, the saddles are keyed and can be locked together. With the right size conduit and saddles , me thinks this would make "a very excellent" foundation for a pixel matrix (?)
They were held in place on the hot tin roof with Black EZIFIX Saddles and ties.
http://www.drillcut.com.au/product-group/234/category/177a
The adhesive on these babies is fantastic. The base uses the same adhesive that is used to hold the tiles onto the space shuttle. For best adhesion, EziFix recommends the use of a surface primer and a pressure applicator.
This year we will do the same, but this time we will be filling the roof areas with white led strings running up and down the ridges of the roofing iron. - that's a lot of LED's.
After a couple of days research, I spent most of today on the roof putting up 20 mm electrical conduit at the ridge and gutter ends of the roof so I can hook the strings up and down the roof. As I have to "Play around" with marking conduit, taking back down to safe work areas, drill and screw sections, check alignments back up on the roof and then take it all back down again to paint it, I decided to use 20 mm plastic conduit mounting clips.
I shopped around for these wee beasts and ended up finding them to be the cheapest (and best style) at Bunnings who sell 2 for 38 cents. http://www.bunnings.com.au/deta-20mm-conduit-mounting-clip-2-pack_p4330822
The best I could find on the net was 5 for $1 from China - then I had to pay freight and wait 28 days.
These are fantastic little beasts, so easy to use and best of all - no fiddling around with cable ties.
As a foot note, the saddles are keyed and can be locked together. With the right size conduit and saddles , me thinks this would make "a very excellent" foundation for a pixel matrix (?)