Comments on: Never knowingly underlit

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:47:35 +0000

Actually i think ours looks about right – and it had nice bushy bottom.

Sarah – 20 lights????? I did consider just buying an extra set of 150, but oddly, the wattage of the bulbs in the bigger set was higher (so presumably a bit brighter) and anyway it’s much better value and much twinklier

Sally, nearest Wilko’s is in the middle of twon 10 miles away and tend not to go there that often. I found plenty of bulbs, that wasn’t the problem, it’s just the variety of fittings means that the right sort wasn’t there. Guess it deopends which chinese factory they source the lights from.

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:45:01 +0000

we wanted 8 foot, but they ran out. our camera not so brill at trpiod requiring shots – and a bit grainy, so we binned last nights. will try again

By: Alison

Alison — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:48:01 +0000

lol, so do we have updated photos?

Ours is now standing in the front room, but it’s not getting decorated until tomorrow It’s blooming enormous – I went for the 200-225cm range ones, as I wanted it taller than me, but not ridiculously large, but it’s actually about 8′ (244cm) – dunno where they measure to then? It does have a few inches of clearance before the ceiling luckily …

By: SallyM

SallyM — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:49:13 +0000

Have you tried Wilkinsons for the bulbs? I had to get some spares and they had a selection in there. So much so I had to buy one set of each kind because I didn’t know which ones I was supposed to get LOL!

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:07:22 +0000

sounds just perfect joyce!

By: Joyce

Joyce — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:00:37 +0000

We only have a 5 ft tree, but it has 180 lights on it, in three sets, 2 plain and 1 coloured. I do like a bit of a twinkle.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:14:21 +0000

250! We have a set of 20 … and it does seem a bit underlit but then again we decided that was good as the tree is near the projector screen, couldn’t have too much light near that! Next year I will buy more though, if we have another big tree.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:43:51 +0000

I only removed the small LV set of which half weren’t working anyway, left the others on there

By: Helen

Helen — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:41:00 +0000

well, rather amazingly, he did actually remove the others – I would have just had them all blaring forth. It looks great. the not so working ones I am going to get him to tangle round the grape vine . In full spanish finca tastefulness!

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:24:03 +0000

Tasteful, understated ………. ANOTHER 250 lights ……… hmm.