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Originally Posted by Robbie
I buy all mine at Home Depot. Never tried exchanging them.
My house is about 5,000 sq. feet and 2 story. I don't even KNOW how many bulbs it has! lol
Just the kitchen has 9. And the first thing I did when I moved here was put in all flourescent bulbs.
Spent a few hundred bucks over a month or so doing it by room.
I'm pretty sure I've had to replace almost half of them every couple of years. The ones in the kitchen I've replaced ALL of them at least 3 times. 
Sucks too. Because we set our AC on 85 degrees F
And use all flourescent bulbs. Turn off the lights and anything running when we leave a room.
And the goddamn electric bill this month was $576 !!!
I have all new electric appliances (dishwasher, refrigerator, clothes washer) that are all the highest rated for saving electricity. I even replaced my pool pump with one that has multiple speeds to save electricity.
So we live uncomfortably in our nice big ass mansion and STILL can't get the electric bill down. Fucking sucks. |
On Maui I used to have $1500 electric bills. Much of that was due to the pool, hot tub, pond, TVs, A/C... etc... but I have figured out the secret. Place I'm in now has great natural lighting from the sides and the top (even in the kitchen), so we almost never run lights at all, except in the bathroom of course. At night, we use candlelight. We got rid of television (also a huge power sucker), there's no A/C, and all the other non-essential crap so now it's really only like, 9 computers running in here and the fridge. Power bill has dropped to less than $25 per month.
It's the lights, A/C and the TV that mostly inflate a power bill.