I stopped at #3...CFL’s don’t come close to illuminating as they claim.
I stopped at #2. Those things are a pain to clean!
And take FOREVER to light up, especially when it's cold.
That and they often times burn out faster than traditional bulbs.
True that.....this author thinks you have to go out and *buy* something....instead of re-purposing something.
They don't produce a lot of light.
I replace them about as often as I replaced incandescents.
I think the whole thing is a complete scam to make light bulbs expensive.
I, however, have been switching some of my more high-use (also, hard-to-reach) bulbs over to LED's. They're expensive - about 20 bucks each - but if they last like the manufacturer claims, I'd pay that not to climb around on the ladder entirely too often. My back of the envelope calculations say that they'll start paying for themselves in a little over 2 years.
It's been a year. So far, so good. They light up instantly, and are bright, which is pretty much what I want from a light bulb.
They're "Cree", from Home Depot. Packaging says that they're manufactured in America, which was a selling point for me.
“I stopped at #3...CFL’s don’t come close to illuminating as they claim.”
We just replaced 4 of these wastes of money last night.
My wife and I both have reading lamps on the tables where sit tio talk, read, watch, and talk to our family and friends who visit.
These lights are only on for a few hours each evening. The bulbs are supposed to last a long time. They don’t. They burn out and have to be replaced about every 4 months.
They last even less if you put them in an an enclosed diffused lightening globe or box for outside or inside use.
Agreed. My best purchase is boxes and boxes and boxes of every type of incandescent lightbulb I have in my home.
CF light bulbs DO NOT last any longer then the old incandescent
When I had my insulation dne, they gave me a whole case of them as a promotion- I thought they would last me a lifetime
They are ALL gone