A beautifully renovated home in Tarleton in Lancashire has brought huge smiles to people’s faces thanks to over 20,000 lights in the trees outside!
The impressive house on Hesketh Lane, near Booths supermarket, has seen six of its large trees wrapped with approximately 200 sets of 10 metre LED lights.
The work has been carried out by Southport-based lighting company IllumiDex UK Ltd.
The firm won national acclaim after carrying out work for Southport Business Improvement District last year to create a ‘boulevard of lights’ with 300,000 LED bulbs along both sides of the historic mile-long Lord Street shopping boulevard.
The firm has also installed lighting and Christmas decorations in town centres, retail parks, local businesses and homes across the North West.
IllumiDex Director Steve Clayton said: “The owner of the house is a really lovely guy! We have really enjoyed working with him.
“His house is fantastic, he has invested lots of time and energy in extensively improving it, and creating the new lighting is a big part of that.
“We began by wrapping five large trees with lights. He was really impressed by the results. Then he called us back to wrap tree number six!.
“It looks incredible and it has become a real talking point in Hesketh Bank and Tarleton! It has brought some real light to the village and people love seeing it.
“My wife, Jan, and I have loved seeing everyone’s comments about the lights in the Hesketh Bank and Tarleton Community Facebook group. There are over 350 comments in there about the lights!”
In the comments, one person wrote: “They look amazing!
Another said: “I told the kids we were going to the illuminations!”
Another said: “They are the best lights they have ever seen in Tarleton and Hesketh Bank.”
Another said: “The whole house has been a pleasure to watch being restored to probably better than its former glory! The lights are the absolute best.”
Another said: “ My favourite house on the road. The current owners have done an amazing job and the lights are beautiful.”
Another said: “Cheered me right up last night driving home from being away in London for a few days with work! Lovely job.”
Steve Clayton said: “The owner spotted our work when he drove down Lord Street in Southport and loved how the trees looked. He told us he would like his trees to look like that.
“Now there are six of them wrapped in so many lights, it has become like our extension of Lord Street!
“The last tree has 40 sets of lights in it, it took us around four and a half hours to complete that one.”
But while the trees are sparkling bright, they are also great value for money.
Steve Clayton said: “Some people in the comments have said ‘I wouldn’t like to pay the energy bill for that one’, but they don’t use very much electricity at all.
“People are surprised when they discover how much they actually use.
“The LED lights we install are super energy efficient. If we put 10 sets of lights in a tree it uses only about 60 Watts of electricity – the same as your typical living room light bulb would use. Each bulb is only 0.6 Watts, which is tiny. A microwave oven uses between 700 – 1000w so it just shows you how little they use.
“The results look spectacular and we have loved seeing everyone’s reaction to the trees in Hesketh Bank being lit up, the feedback has been incredible.”
The work never stops for IllumiDex. After a short Christmas break, the team will be back out and about.Steve Clayton said: “Come the new year, we will be out in town centres and villages taking all the Christmas decorations down to be tested and stored away, then we start to take down all the residential decorations.
“We already have bookings for throughout 2023 from people who have asked us to wrap their trees and install festoon lighting at their homes, ready for Spring and next Christmas!.”
- For more details about Illumidex UK Ltd please visit:illumidex.co.uk or email: info@illumidex.co.uk or call: 01704220829 (landline) or 07979158404 (mobile).
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