caniac Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 I have a huge oak tree in the back yard that looks cool when lit by the halloween floods so I got this bright idea to light the sucker up for Christmas. Four different colors at each end of the roof BUT I don't want to screw them to the roof. Any ideas, sorta looking quick and easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 caniac wrote: I have a huge oak tree in the back yard that looks cool when lit by the halloween floods so I got this bright idea to light the sucker up for Christmas. Four different colors at each end of the roof BUT I don't want to screw them to the roof. Any ideas, sorta looking quick and easy.What I do is mount the floods on a 2x4 then I screw the 2x4 to a pre cut sheet of 1 inch plywood aproximate size 2 feet by 2 feet then I mount them to my roof (I screw mine down as I have created a false roof just for stuff like this) now I know you do not want to screw anything to your roof so by using larger plywood you could use sand bags to hold everything down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caniac Posted October 30, 2011 Author Share Posted October 30, 2011 Don Gillespie wrote: caniac wrote: I have a huge oak tree in the back yard that looks cool when lit by the halloween floods so I got this bright idea to light the sucker up for Christmas. Four different colors at each end of the roof BUT I don't want to screw them to the roof. Any ideas, sorta looking quick and easy.What I do is mount the floods on a 2x4 then I screw the 2x4 to a pre cut sheet of 1 inch plywood aproximate size 2 feet by 2 feet then I mount them to my roof (I screw mine down as I have created a false roof just for stuff like this) now I know you do not want to screw anything to your roof so by using larger plywood you could use sand bags to hold everything down.cool, we rarely get high winds (of course no sooner than I say that then we will have one of the windiest winters on record). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryDrumAZ Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 caniac wrote:I have a huge oak tree in the back yard that looks cool when lit by the halloween floods so I got this bright idea to light the sucker up for Christmas. Four different colors at each end of the roof BUT I don't want to screw them to the roof. Any ideas, sorta looking quick and easy.I built a stand or rig for my Bethlehem Star to attach to. It strattles the peak of the roof and is about 3 feet long on each side of the roof. It is held down to the roof with 4 cinder blocks. I used it to attach my floods to this year. I used 1/2" EMT screwed to the rig and extended out 4 feet from the edge of the roof for the floods.I don't have any pictures of it, but basically I took 2x4's and cut the ends to match the pitch pf the peak, then made then width about 2 feet and divided each side with 1/4" plywood attached to the bottom side. Then I have a "tray" to set the Cinder blocks in.Hope this helps, I know I'm confused now. :shock:edit : We have very high winds in AZ, and with the 4 blocks holding it down, about 100 pounds, no problems... yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing4Dough Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Not sure how tall your roof is, but another option is to mount them on the tops of poles (such as conduit, 10-20') in the ground. Not much wind resistance so you wouldn't need to guy wire them. If they feel at all tipsy, you could zip-tie the pole to a green temporary fence post that is 2' in the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caniac Posted October 30, 2011 Author Share Posted October 30, 2011 Surfing4Dough wrote: Not sure how tall your roof is, but another option is to mount them on the tops of poles (such as conduit, 10-20') in the ground. Not much wind resistance so you wouldn't need to guy wire them. If they feel at all tipsy, you could zip-tie the pole to a green temporary fence post that is 2' in the ground.ranch house, standard height. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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