tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post6688927171260008067..comments2024-02-02T05:50:48.506+00:00Comments on Dalton House: Lights - positioning themburygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-32879996802677395882017-02-17T15:39:17.481+00:002017-02-17T15:39:17.481+00:00I was lucky to meet a real expert in lighting righ...I was lucky to meet a real expert in lighting right at the beginning of my first project (he sold both types). He told me simply not to use the copper wire method. You need to make good joins, not use wallpaper paste or any other glue that can affect it over time etc etc etc and even then he said if you house is to be a keeper over many years it will at some time fail and it is a pig to discover where and repair. At least with each individual light and fire wired in on its own - if that happens to one of them - it is a relatively simple repair or replacement job. He convinced me, and I don't find it particularly challenging especially as I don't have to replace the plugs to plug them in those gang plank affairs, I have something better, courtesy of the same lovely chap. Mburygardenershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-18050750267764533142017-02-15T12:29:43.855+00:002017-02-15T12:29:43.855+00:00Hello Marilyn,
This is a very helpful post! Follow...Hello Marilyn,<br />This is a very helpful post! Following real life lighting rules in miniature can often ruin the effect. I have used the copper wire method and I despised it! The thickness of the tape shows through paper finishes, and more then once the connection breaks and needs repairing. I have used it once and never will again!<br />Big hug<br />GiacGiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823654482564548862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-74060278145688258602017-01-02T12:07:19.253+00:002017-01-02T12:07:19.253+00:00I always use the round wiring system so every sing...I always use the round wiring system so every single light has to be planned in advance.....I wonder if copper wiring is easier.....mind you that brings its own problems. No simple solution I guess just do the best we can and curse later when something dead obvious occurs to us. As you say lights are not cheap and, in my case, I am never able to find exactly what I want. All moans aside I do think a house needs to be lit to make it magical and alive. Mburygardenershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-59378215849412729082017-01-01T20:03:03.126+00:002017-01-01T20:03:03.126+00:00HI Marilyn and HAPPY 2017! :D
I find the wiring an...HI Marilyn and HAPPY 2017! :D<br />I find the wiring and the lighting of any doll's house such a chore! The biggest headache for me is always trying to think ahead to where I might require power, so I usually over-wire just to be on the safe side. <br />It is usually the case as you have pointed out, of not having all the require fixture needed which often holds up other rooms in the process. <br />I often wish I was able to have ALL of the lighting before hand, however the cost of lights can be quite forbidding and like you, I don't always know what I need, until I NEED it. <br />Very Frustrating- to say the least. <br /><br />elizabeth elizabeth shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09042037455600427075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-1693946362253259912016-12-31T19:26:14.709+00:002016-12-31T19:26:14.709+00:00Hope your head doesn't leak like mine, resembl...Hope your head doesn't leak like mine, resembles a sieve these days. Thank you Sharon.burygardenershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-65189197390552008512016-12-31T17:47:35.822+00:002016-12-31T17:47:35.822+00:00great post ~ more good ideas to file away in my he...great post ~ more good ideas to file away in my head (or perhaps I should actually write them down!) for future use!SharonLarkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com