How To Hang Lights Under A Deck

Low-voltage lighting requires no electrical skills and can simply plug into an existing outlet.

How to hang lights under a deck. If youve got big trees near your patio or deck youre in luck. Measure out the distance between. This way we could attach hooks to the house and to the poles and swag the lights back and forth.

We chose to paint the board to the same color as our deck to look beautiful and match our outdoor space. You can use eye hooks cup hooks or coaxial staples to secure them to the tree. Then we ran the second string over to the hook on the house and plugged it into the outdoor extension cord and a GFCI outlet.

Lighting the center of a large deck can be a challenge but string lights and rope lights make it easier. Youll want to determine where you want each string light strand to hang. The 8 feet long strip boards were just perfect tall for our deck so we did not need to adjust or cut off anything off of our board.

We needed to run a second string of lights so we used some white electrical tape to protect the plug on each strand. Cyndy from The Creativity Exchange anchored her patio lights to a tree in this beautiful outdoor dining space. Paint or stain the wood poles to match the deck.

This demonstration shows how to hang edison bulb string lights within a covered patio. Prepare the lights be removing the light bulbs from the string prior to installation. There are several different types of lighting you can add to your outdoor deck.

Instructions Measure out anchor points. Read about what we painted our deck with here Attach poles to the deck. Instead you either peel the back or apply adhesive to the hook and pin it onto a flat surface.