Ripped Off With Energy Saving Bulbs.

[anotheoldgit]

I recently had one of the old type 40w round opaque bulb blow in one of my chandeliers.

I was then in for quite a shock when trying to buy a replacement at my local DIY shop there was a whole aisle set aside for light bulbs all completely alien to me in styles, small threaded, large threaded, bayonet halogen, LED, Energy-Saving etc.

But could I find the once cheap standard round bulb? no, the nearest I could get was a round, clear halogen bulb 42w (traditional 55w) 630 Lumens????????????

And they don't come cheap £5 each, and of course that made all the rest of the bulbs in the chandelier obsolete, so I had to replace all of them, wow how we are being ripped off once again.

[stuey]

For reading, you need "Daylight" bulbs at 5,000 to 6,500 Kelvins. If you scroll down the article you'll see that.

[mazie]

One less than me AOG :o)