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[Ouch77]

Houses this time of year are a spectacle of lights and decoration.
Mine isn't. It was but then the rope-light I'd carefully installed last year has started blowing fuses, so I suspect it's past it's best.
It's hung from the soffit of my front facing gable wall on hooks. It's quite high 7m ish. I put the hooks in last year when I painted the gable end, via a scaffold tower which I no longer have.
My wife has told me in no uncertain terms I'm not to be "****ing around up a ladder again" - and I kinda agree, 7m up a ladder is not my idea of fun.
I'm after suggestions for some form of hook-on-a-stick type solution - or another idea - to allow me to remove and re-instate these (or replacement) lights which doesn't involve me having to climb up anything.
access from below is largely unobstructed, ground cover is gravel.
Any thoughts anyone?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Control at the end of an around 5m pole waving about in the air will be very limited, might you find it easier to reach via a window using one of those shorter gripper sticks?

 

[Mottie]

How about a cheap telescopic fishing pole with a rod-rest fixed in the end to allow you to hook the light string into your existing soffit hooks?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

How about a cheap telescopic fishing pole with a rod-rest fixed in the end to allow you to hook the light string into your existing soffit hooks?

A length of 32mm plastic drain would serve the same function and be much cheaper and easier to source.

 

[Mottie]

A length of 32mm plastic drain would serve the same function and be much cheaper and easier to source.

I don't think that comes in a 5m length ...or is extendable. It'd be bloody difficult to pick up the cable 5m away and lift it up from a horizontal position Harry.

Not too expensive. https://www.anglingdirect.co.uk/dam...MIkcnZ4Izr9AIVgqZ3Ch2-wwIdEAQYAiABEgJXavD_BwE

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I don't think that comes in a 5m length ...or is extendable. It'd be bloody difficult to pick up the cable 5m away and lift it up from a horizontal position Harry.

Not too expensive. https://www.anglingdirect.co.uk/dam...MIkcnZ4Izr9AIVgqZ3Ch2-wwIdEAQYAiABEgJXavD_BwE

OK, last I heard they were around the £100 mark..

 

[foxhole]

Hoverboots

 

[Ouch77]

Control at the end of an around 5m pole waving about in the air will be very limited, might you find it easier to reach via a window using one of those shorter gripper sticks?

Access from upstairs windows is limited, desks and such in the way, windows don't open that far and there's still reach issues.
I tried earlier with some drain rod, which I can get into position on the lower sections, but fine control is next-to-impossible, and it's very challenging to get near the apex, yet alone manipulate anything..

 

[Ouch77]

I don't think that comes in a 5m length ...or is extendable. It'd be bloody difficult to pick up the cable 5m away and lift it up from a horizontal position Harry.

Not too expensive. https://www.anglingdirect.co.uk/dam...MIkcnZ4Izr9AIVgqZ3Ch2-wwIdEAQYAiABEgJXavD_BwE

that might be worth a shout, especailly if it's more rigid that drain rods, which I experimented unsucessfully with this afternoon..

 

[hughesy64]

This would be a good shout:

https://dangler.co.uk/p/nufish-telescopic-fe-1?sku=LG1

As mentioned earlier, its telescopic but with the arm at the end

 

[mattylad]

How about you have 2 long poles, suspend the lights between them, clamped to the wall either side of the house?
No climbing and quick and easy to put up/down.

 

[foxhole]

This would be a good shout:

https://dangler.co.uk/p/nufish-telescopic-fe-1?sku=LG1

As mentioned earlier, its telescopic but with the arm at the end

No one mentioned earlier, it was a year ago.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

No one mentioned earlier, it was a year ago.

But it's that time of year again..

 

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[Ouch77]

that's okay, the lights are still up