Collection: Plug In Fairy Lights

You will always need to think about plug positions when you are deciding where to position your fairy lights that plug in.You can hang plug in fairy lights around something like a bannister, you can use tacks to attach them to a mirror, round a picture or a mantlepiece. If you want to hang them along a wall or above bi-fold doors then you can use clear hooks that stick to a wall wherever you need them.

LED plug in fairy lights are very similar to traditional fairy lights except that they do not have a filament inside the bulb that can burn out and make the set redundant. The main benefit of LED lights is that they are hard-wearing and they don’t get hot. All of Sparkle's plug in fairy lights are LED.

The average family has their plug in fairy lights on for six hours per day from when it gets dark until when they go to bed. On average a 100-count string of plug in fair lights runs at 40 watts, and with most people using two strings, that adds up to 80 watts (W) and 0.08 kilowatts (kW). If your lights were left on for six hours a day, with the electricity unit price now at around 34p per kWh, that means the daily cost to run plug in fairy lights would be 16p per day.This means that for a month, it would cost £4.89 to run plug in lights for six hours per day.

Mains powered plug in fairy lights last for between 5-10 years and need very little maintaince