Our simply elegant candle chandeliers provide light, heat and an enchanting, relaxed vibe, and really is the ultimate glamping accessory.
Ideal for smaller tents, the Single Layer Tea Light Chandelier is simple but impressive, 12 clear glass tea lights casting a honeyed, warm glow around the tent. All of our chandeliers are also ideal for use in the home, just be careful where you hang it.
Our Double Layer Tea Light Chandelier is a dramatic presentation of 24 lights twinkling in a larger tent or over an outside table in the garden.
The perfect finishing touch for your tent, a chandelier is rustic, romantic and practical all at once.
Single tier:
- 24.5" high
- Holds 12 tea lights
Double tier:
- 29" high
- Holds 21 tea lights
Gives out a fantastic relaxing light to your tent.
- Surprisingly good deal of warmth especially if you go for the double layer.
- We've tested a double layer chandelier in a 4m Bell Tent and found that the temperature went up by 5C within an hour!
- Also, after extensive testing, we found that if you do knock the chandelier it's initial reaction is to just to move round the pole but if you really knock it hard and one of the tea light holders falls to the floor we can assure you that the tea light candle goes out on impact.
- Please find our comprehensive, downloadable PDF instructions for the chandelier here.
- These items are meant to be slightly rusty and rustic, that's the look so please don't be alarmed.
Fitting your Tea Light Chandelier to your Bell Tent.
- This is the same for any tent with a centre pole. Take the metal chandelier frame and put the pole through it before you tension the tent. Leave it on the floor and only raise it and fit the glass once you have finished erecting the tent.
- We always recommend you use a piece of string to hang the chandelier as even though our main poles come with a ring near the top for attaching an inner tent using that directly to hang your chandelier will mean it's way to high up to benefit for the maximum heat and light.
- Instead hang the piece of string off the ring and then tie the chandelier to it at whatever height suits. We find that having the bottom tier of the frame about 2 feet from the floor is the optimum for using the light and benefiting from the heat generated by the candles.
- Another tip for those with animals or small people is to raise the chandelier up out of reach during the day and only lower it when in use.
Safely using your Tea Light Chandelier.
- Always have a means of putting out a fire before you use candles in a tent!
- Always keep children and animals under control with a flame present and never leave them unattended with the candles lit.
- Never hang it over a bed as hot wax hurts and bedding often never looks as good again.
- Never try and use it in conjunction with an inner tent. One or the other. We sometimes drop the chandelier frame and put the inner half over it if the bugs attack.
Tips on using your Tea Light Chandelier efficiently and safely.
- Always make sure the tea light candles are level in the glass votive to ensure a slow even burn. If at an angle it will burn out faster and once all the wax is liquid the wick can slip to one edge and burn against the glass.
- The glass will discolour and occasionally crack with prolonged direct contact with a flame and therefore should be avoided.
- We use over 400 of these in our rental stock in Hotel Bell Tent and have vigorously tested them against fire risk. We have found that because the tea light chandelier can move when bumped and more importantly the flames on the candles never stay alight after a 2 ft drop the fire hazard is a lot less than having candles on flat surfaces.
- We recommend the purchase of along necked lighter (sometimes known as a BBQ lighter) as this makes lighting the candle in situ easy and stops hands getting burnt and lit candles being dropped into the votives which often results in an uneven candle.
- We hope you enjoy many years of fun with your Tea Light Chandeliers and consider using it in other places other than just your tent.
Enjoy and contact us if you have any questions - Info@belltent.co.uk