Places where happy events are staged very often are illuminated with Hanging Paper lanterns. Although used as temporary decorations, these decorative lanterns are also used for permanent illumination in buildings and gardens. Hanging paper lanterns are available either fully assembled or ready to put together.
The paper lantern assembly procedure is not tiresome work. A decorative paper lantern that needs assembly can be put together in 20 minutes.
Also, an expanding metal tool is supplied with hanging paper lanterns. The cord used to nag the lantern must be purchased separately. Generally, the length of a cord is about 10 to 15 feet and if you need more than that, an extension cord is the solution.
Even though assembly is not difficult, be careful not to contact the sides of the lantern with the expander tool when widening the lamp. Additionally, collapsible wires are used to make the body of these lamps. This helps packaging and mailing lanterns so they can be kept flattened easily. To obtain the original shape of the lantern, the metal expander is needed.
After you reshape the lantern, you will need the cord to hang it. Place the cord along the wall to the top and hook the cord to the ceiling. Select a tape that will stick the cord well. The cord can be fixed with hooks which are stronger than any tape. Install the light next. As electric fixtures may cause fires, keep enough space between each side of the lanterns when positioning the bulb. It is more suitable to use CFL bulbs rather than other types because these bulbs heat up less.
CFL bulbs are much better than incandescent lights for paper lanterns as the former heats less. Always keep the wattage low as it minimizes the probability of fires. After attaching, switch on the light to see if it works properly. Occasionally, it may not work due to erroneous installation. Check the installation for proper usage.
Cody Scholberg, a lighting expert, writes about hanging paper lanterns. Check out this post on using asian paper lanterns to repel mosquitoes!
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October 16 2009 | Gardening | No Comments »
If you are not yet acquainted with the handheld bug zapper, you are really going to love it and if you have used one before, I bet you’ll welcome it back like an old, long-lost friend! The handheld bug killer does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, very effectively.
Any insect that is touched by the wiring of the hand held insect killer is electrocuted. Smaller insects like midges and mosquitoes are disintegrated with a very pleasing flash and a crack. Larger bug, like house flies and wasps are killed, but don’t explode like the smaller ones.
How many times have these flying bugs taken the edge off an otherwise enjoyable evening in the garden? Or how many times have you not been able to get a good night’s sleep, because you know there’s at least one mosquito in the bedroom. It has happened to me hundreds of times, I know! It is very satisfying to get one’s own back with the electronic insect killer.
I don’t like killing anything unnecessarily – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the electric bug zapper does it without any messing about. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and into the mesh. No, one sweep of the electric bug killer and the mosie’s gone and you can hear whether you got her or not. (I say her, because the sucking mosquitoes always are females – I assure you, I wasn’t being sexist).
There are two basic types of hand held insect killer. There’s the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both work on the same principle, but I prefer the rechargeable kind, although I guess you could use rechargeable batteries too. (I bet they would be more expensive that the bug zapper in the first place). Anyway, I have been using a electronic bug zapper of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am ecstatic about them.
These days, I spend a lot of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your life that my handheld bug zapper gets a good work-out practically every evening. We usually eat in the garden in the evening and all socializing is done outside by tradition, especially in the country, where we live, so it comes in very handy. I also use my electric insect zapper to ‘sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we retire at night, just like a secret agent.
The electric bug killer just gets better and better every time I buy one, which makes it difficult to give you definite specifications. The electronic bug zappers I used four or five years ago, sometimes failed within 6-9 months of purchase, although their ability to hold a charge reduced a lot after 4-5 months.
However, the latest electric bug zapper will easily last 9-12 months and still be very pokey after nine months. My newest one even has a strong light called a headlamp incorporated into it. I’m not certain what it’s supposed to be for, but if you think that vengeance is sweet, you can attract mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your electronic insect killer.
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September 11 2009 | Gardening | No Comments »