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antoinette
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does anyone not have an electrical outlet outside?
First holiday season in this house and I noticed no electrical outlets outside- so what do I do with my xmas lights? When we were buying the house it was around xmas time last yr and they had lights up 
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dbleplay17
My 2 boys!
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Chrissy
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Re: does anyone not have an electrical outlet outside?
we dont ....we want to run a line but for this xmas we are going to set up the lights to the outlet in the garage and put it on a timer so i dont have to go outside and pull it out
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| Posted 11/6/07 5:08 PM |
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bicosi
life is a carousel
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M
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Re: does anyone not have an electrical outlet outside?
Perhaps they ran it from the garage?
that's what we did in our NY house.
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| Posted 11/6/07 5:08 PM |
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antoinette
boy mamma
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Antoinette
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Re: does anyone not have an electrical outlet outside?
Posted by dbleplay17
we dont ....we want to run a line but for this xmas we are going to set up the lights to the outlet in the garage and put it on a timer so i dont have to go outside and pull it out
so do you use an extension cord to get the lights where you want them
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| Posted 11/6/07 5:09 PM |
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antoinette
boy mamma
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Antoinette
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Re: does anyone not have an electrical outlet outside?
Posted by bicosi
Perhaps they ran it from the garage?
that's what we did in our NY house.
we dont have a garage We do have a basement though. I suppose i could stick the wire out the window but then the window would have to be open 
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| Posted 11/6/07 5:10 PM |
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bicosi
life is a carousel
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Re: does anyone not have an electrical outlet outside?
 Yeah, you could probably do that =(
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| Posted 11/6/07 5:13 PM |
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BabyBoy
is Skylar Elizabeth
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Tom
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Re: does anyone not have an electrical outlet outside?
you "should" install an outside box that is a protected switch (same stuff in your kitchen and bathroom)
We installed 2 boxes over the summer.
It just worked out that where we needed the outlets, there were switches already in the house on the oposite side. We simpley attached an outdoor box outside, drilled a hole to pass the wireing from the inside, tie a couple of wires together (of course, shut the breaker), and presto, you have an protected outlet.
i can take a picture of this if someone really needs to see...
It doesnt cost much to do this also
Message edited 11/6/2007 5:36:51 PM.
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| Posted 11/6/07 5:36 PM |
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Kissy331
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Kristen
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Re: does anyone not have an electrical outlet outside?
We had outlets installed outside that are covered. 2 of them are connected to our lightposts & the other is closer to our house. All are controlled by an inside switch
Before we did that though, we got adapters & used the outside light fixtures to plug in our holiday lights...
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| Posted 11/6/07 6:15 PM |
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Re: does anyone not have an electrical outlet outside?
The only outlets we have are in the way back of the house, so I guess we are gong to have to run extension cords from the front to the back
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| Posted 11/6/07 6:27 PM |
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hazeleyes33
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Ginger
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Re: does anyone not have an electrical outlet outside?
We just got an outside outlet this year. We always ran the lights into the garage.
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| Posted 11/6/07 7:54 PM |
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BobBsWife
No more school= too much time!
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Tracy
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Re: does anyone not have an electrical outlet outside?
we just had them installed but you can by an adaptor that goes into a light socket outside and plug in your holiday lights
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| Posted 11/6/07 8:33 PM |
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Lisa
I'm a PANK!!!
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Professional Aunts No Kids
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Re: does anyone not have an electrical outlet outside?
we run out lights from the garage
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| Posted 11/6/07 8:54 PM |
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Ang-Rich
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Re: does anyone not have an electrical outlet outside?
Last year we did not so we ran the lights either to the outlet in the garage or just through the window.
This summer we had one put in.
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| Posted 11/7/07 11:57 AM |
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