Illuminate Your Outdoors! ✨
The Outdoor String Lights Hanging Kit features a robust 164ft black vinyl-coated 304 stainless steel cable, designed for easy installation and exceptional durability. With a breaking strength of 480lbs, this kit is perfect for hanging outdoor string lights and other items, ensuring your outdoor spaces shine bright for any occasion.
V**S
Elevates your light game to professional grade!
Love this kit! My patio lights were so basic-looking, and this system elevated it to professional standards. Highly recommend!
A**.
Easy to use
Used this to hang triangle canvas and made it so easy , wire is good quality
G**A
Perfect kit
Kit had everything I needed to string up my patio lights the right way. The hardware made it relatively easy to get a nice, taut cable strung. My lights look great and have survived some pretty nasty weather and high winds so far this summer. I will say that I invested in a bag of small black zip ties at the hardware store, as the twist ties that come with this kit didn’t seem super sturdy to me. But I consider that a minor addition to what is otherwise a really comprehensive kit that saved me a lot of money, not to mention the time it would have taken me to piece together all the cables and hardware individually. Am hoping this proves to be weatherproof and durable outside, and I don’t notice any rust.
M**G
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The media could not be loaded. I noticed many older reviews mention weak screws, turnbuckles that lacked the ability to pull due to sloppy threads, and more.I didn't find any of those problems. In fact, I was happy to see all stainless hardware and found it worked well. There were only two problems with my kit, one of which I could have prevented, one is I'd call a problem with the parts.The twist-ties were the weakest link. About a dozen of them had the vinyl cover separate from the wire as I twisted them (for the first time) around the light string I was hanging. But there are a LOT of them in the kit so I didn't mind.The screws, turnbuckles, carabiners (spring clips), fastening loops and anchor loops all held up well. Except for one incident.One of my 3 runs (all about 20 feet / 7 meters) split where the wire coat separated from the wire. Since the wire coat is pretty thick, even when screwed down hard (or perhaps TOO hard) the bight (loop fasteners) lost its bite and my closed end came undone. I was able to fix this rather easily because I still had sufficient slack to make a new bight.Some hanging tricks I learned:First some terminology... I'm referring to the following parts by these names;turnbuckle (the long piece with an eye on one side and a hook on the other) - open it nearly fully.anchor (the U shaped piece that is held with two screws to the anchor point - e.g. tree, decking, etc),bight - a loop in the end of the wire cablebight clip - a small piece with two small holes that the cable can pass thru, and two small screw that are used to tighten the wire into the clip. The bight clip is used to make a bight in the wire.carabiner - an O shaped closed loop with a spring loaded "gate" or opening. The large end is attached to the anchor, the smaller end is where the "bight" goes.1. Fasten the anchors first and make sure they are fully snug.2. Create a loop through the eye of a fully extended turnbuckle and hook it into the anchor.3. Stretch the wire to its other anchor point4. Clip in a carabiner (spring fastener) to the anchor.5. Cut the wire leaving about a foot (10 cm) of slack - enough to make a loop around the carabiner and back through the bight clip and then some. Do not tighten the bight clip screws.6. Grasp the free end of the cable with pliers (vice grips) and begin pulling.7. When nearly all the slack is gone, tighten down the bight screw on the long side of the cable about an inch (2cm) away from the carabiner.8. Pull more firmly and then tighten the other side of the bight clip. You should leave a loop that isn't closed around the small end of the carabiner9. Give the whole thing a small tug.10. Rotate the turnbuckle to remove any obvious slack, but don't overdo it. There will be more slack/sag once the lights are hung, and perhaps more over time.11. Hang your lights using the twist ties as described in the instructions.12. Use the turnbuckle to remove remaining slack - but don't expect there to be no sag. In fact, if you end up with a fully shortened turn buckle and there is still too much sag, you'll need to loosen the turnbuckle and go back to the other end of the cable and remove more slack.13. Once all looks good, trim off all but the last 1/2 inch (1cm) of cable... BUT NOT BEFORE HAND... you may need to do more stretching!If you don't expect to ever take down the wire cable, you don't need to use the carabiner - the slack removal would occur around the anchor.The only problem I ran into was that the bight around the eye of the carabiner broke free. This is because the insulation separated from the wire.I did a little digging, too, and I'm not convinced you can get all the parts for a significantly better price - the only way you might gain some savings is by buying only exactly what you need - in my case I'm glad to have some extra bight clips, anchors, turnbuckles and anchors.Oh, by the way, if one end of your wire is a tree... I'd suggest you leave plenty of slack, otherwise wind will definitely break something!
T**.
High quality product and responsive customer service
The product is high quality and includes everything you need to hang your string lights. All parts come exactly as the pictures and description show. I used two twist ties per light bulb to secure it to the guiding wire. It takes a bit more time but looks better and will resist sagging over time. Customer service is very responsive and friendly. Highly recommend.
M**.
Great Purchase
We were wanting to hang stringed lights in our backyard, and noticed that when we did, they were extremely low and droopy. We ended up taking a chance, and purchased this wire/kit, and after tying the stringed lights to this wire, it made a world of a difference! Not only did the concept of hanging stringed lights to this wire, help transform the droopy look into a nice high and tight lighted ceiling look, but the fact that this kit overall came with great quality pieces that were not only easy to use but also more than we ended up using (we had options/pieces that we could use to hang this wire), it was definitely one of my best Amazon purchases. I would highly recommend this product!
J**R
Perfect for stringing outdoor lights.
I bought these to string up outdoor lights at my campground. The lights themselves would droop too much. This kit worked perfectly to fix the problem. They're easy to install, I had no problems outside my fear of heights in getting the kit installed. If I ever need to hang others I would definitely get this kit again. Especially since it gives enough hardware to string up multiple sets.
J**N
Customer service and great product
Great customer service and the product works great!
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