Scott Caron, master electrician for Ask This Old House, helps a homeowner install fiesta string lights to get the party started in Texas. (See below for a shopping list, tools, and steps.)

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Shopping List for How to Install Fiesta String Lights:
String lights
LED replacement bulbs
Flexible conduit
Wire conductors
Stainlesssteel guide wires
Wire nuts
Stainlesssteel eye hooks
Shooks
Stainlesssteel tension

Tools for How to Install Fiesta String Lights:
Pliers
Driver

Steps for How to Install Fiesta String Lights:
1. Find an existing power source and turn off the electricity.
2. Measure out the amount of flexible conduit needed to extend to the outdoor light switch box.
3. Fit three separate wire conductors (instead of a premade cable) through the flexible conduit and into the existing power source.
4. Splice the existing wires to the new wire conductors with pliers and cover with wire nuts.
5. Reconnect the outlet.
6. Using a driver, screw in the outdoor light switch box.
7. Feed the flexible conduit into the outdoor light switch box.
8. Using a driver, screw in the outdoor outlet box.
9. Feed a second set of flexible conduit/wiring into the outdoor outlet box.
10. Splice wires together at both boxes using pliers and wire nuts.
11. Using stainlesssteel eye hooks, run two stainlesssteel guide wires under stainlesssteel tension across the roof.
12. Using Shooks, crisscross the string lights across the guide wires.
13. Plug in the string lights cord.

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