cleaning light bulbs

[MrsLadyBug]

What is the "Best" way to clean light bulbs. Is it ok to use water or is there a liquid that wont damage them

[MrsLadyBug]

Thanks all for your thoughts on the subject. I must say I don't like ladders and this is probably why they have never been done! I don't have any nice helpful person to get to do it for me. So I guess it is going on the long finger again!

[pusskin]

I say spring cleaning cos i like to come across as posh lol
i hate housework, would rather spend all day on here.

[boxtops]

that's why I don't do it, pusskin

[douglas9401]

It's the telly showing The Price Is Right boxtops.

[vulcan]

Light bulbs attract insects, they leave sticky dirt on the bulbs and eventually the bulbs get dimmer. I wash mine because a "quick wipe" doesn't remove all the dirt.

[LoftyLottie]

Actually, though Pusskin, I think Spring Cleaning was something everybody did before we had so many cleaning gadgets, e.g. putting the rugs out in the spring and beating them to death and having the good weather to wash all the curtains etc and dry them outside - no dry cleaners about.

I always think I am going to do a lot of cleaning when the good weather comes and then I go out in the garden instead because gardening is much nicer than housework. So, in effect, the cleaning doesn't get done winter, spring or summer or winter!! ;o)

Pusskin, is your sister OK and her daughter, C.?

[MrsLadyBug]

I'm with you there. Spring(or any other time) cleaning is never top of my priorities.

[pusskin]

ha ha I think most of us feel the same boxtops. x

[LoftyLottie]

Well I am not about to start washing lighbulbs Vulcan. I shall remain in semi darkness. That way I won't see the dust anywhere else in the house ;o)

[MrsLadyBug]

Vulcan, someone who does actually clean the bulbs. I would still like to know what you use for them?

[pusskin]

Sorry for intrusion MrsladyBug!

Lottie, sister getting on ok after a very trying year or two. C is ok right now.
Hope she returns to AB soon x

[LoftyLottie]

Thanks Pusskin. And apologies from me too Mrs LadyBug.

[boxtops]

I don't have insects on my light bulbs, I feel I'm missing out

[vulcan]

As headwreck says, anti bacterial wipes. The bugs,especially in summer leave the bulbs sticky and horrible. I also think, though have no proof, that the bulbs last longer if they're cleaned.

[boxtops]

I hardly ever have to change a light bulb - the only ones which go are the batten lights in the kitchen.

[MrsLadyBug]

Thanks for that Vulcan, will keep that in mind for whenever I do get around to it.

[boxtops]

we might get the odd little mothy thing - ooh, I can see a few dead 'uns in the uplighter, now I look - but they're not blocking the light :-)

[Sammy48]

I have cleaned light bulbs in my lamps. I usually put a little fabric condition on a wet cloth and wipe bulb over. When the bulb heats up, the fragrance fills the room.