[thechat] Lights
Luther, Ron
Ron.Luther at hp.com
Thu Mar 18 13:35:45 CDT 2010
Been in the new place about 3 months now and beginning to realize just how many light fixtures there are in a house. Holy mackerel, Andy!
I've replaced five light fixtures already.
Uh ... that's five light fixtures ... in bedroom closets! <whut?> Yeah. Swapped two fluorescent in the master for two halogen. (I'll re-use the fluorescents in the garage where they belong.) Changed three of the bedroom closets from single bulb to much nicer looking double bulb units. (Prior owners left probably half a dozen decent looking double fixtures in the attic. Just repurposing.)
Counting those ... I've now swapped out fourteen light fixtures in and around the house. (Lots of reuse/recycling 'movement'. Buy a new ceiling fan for the master. Reuse the old one in a spare room. Reuse the light that used to be in that spare room somewhere else. Very little waste. May end up pitching or garage sale-ing a $5 builder grade fixture at the end.) Plan to change out another four. And we've kept all of the can lights, a couple of ceiling fans, and the lights in the bathrooms. Although I did have to swap out all of the gen-1 cfcs. Sheesh, those were horrid!
Once again amazed by the simple joys of home ownership,
RonL.
(Only "bitten" once so far; the new ceiling fan in the study zapped me. ;-( Although I did 'cheat' and put on a glove to reconnect the fan in the gameroom. That is a really big fan. With lots of metal. And the mains leads were very very short. And I was hooking it up an hour after being bitten in the study.)
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