Light troubles
Feb. 6th, 2006 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyI posted this to LJGenie, but I'll crosspost it here too.
I have a light fixture in my foyer that is the bane of my life. It hangs up very high, higher than we can reach from our stepladder. All three bulbs were dead when we moved in, and it took a LONG time to get them replaced, and a very scary trip up on an inconvenient rented extension ladder. Now all three bulbs are dead again. I can't use one of the extendable light-changing pole things - they work if the lightbulb points down. That fixture has the lightbulbs pointing up.
I'm thinking that maybe we should look into replacing the fixture entirely. The cost and hassle of having it done might be worth it if we can end up with something that doesn't cause this sort of problem every time. IF I can find something that will work better. I'd really like one that could crank down somehow like a candle chandelier does to be changed. Does such a thing exist? Failing that, if I got one with the bulbs pointed down, do those extendable light-changing pole things work on a chandelier that's swinging on a chain, not fixed in one place? Or does anyone have any other suggestions?
I have a light fixture in my foyer that is the bane of my life. It hangs up very high, higher than we can reach from our stepladder. All three bulbs were dead when we moved in, and it took a LONG time to get them replaced, and a very scary trip up on an inconvenient rented extension ladder. Now all three bulbs are dead again. I can't use one of the extendable light-changing pole things - they work if the lightbulb points down. That fixture has the lightbulbs pointing up.
I'm thinking that maybe we should look into replacing the fixture entirely. The cost and hassle of having it done might be worth it if we can end up with something that doesn't cause this sort of problem every time. IF I can find something that will work better. I'd really like one that could crank down somehow like a candle chandelier does to be changed. Does such a thing exist? Failing that, if I got one with the bulbs pointed down, do those extendable light-changing pole things work on a chandelier that's swinging on a chain, not fixed in one place? Or does anyone have any other suggestions?
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Date: 2006-02-07 11:58 am (UTC)And if the level of illumination in the foyer is not crucial, put in some of those curly fluorescent bulbs that don't REALLY give as much light as they claim to, but which last WAAAY longer than incandescents. I had a couple of fixtures in our old place that, while not as spectacularly inaccessible as yours, were still bitches to get into to change bulbs and that's what I resorted to.