Do you leave lights on overnight?

jobbingmusician

On a different but related subject - is anyone else furious at the phasing out of old style 'not energy efficient' lightbulbs? With lightbulbs like the one in the loo which is on for only short periods (except for the people in this thread leaving them on all night ) it is far more energy efficient to have instant full light - most of the energy in energy efficient bulbs is used warming them up, so old style bulbs are far better in loos, pantries - anywhere where you spend only a short time!

LittleMissAspie

Never occurred to me to leave a light on at night, I think that's strange. Your eyes should adjust to the dark enough for you to find your way around your own house.

If anyone is bothered about being burgled, get one of those movement lamps for outside so that it goes on whenever someone walks up to the house. Useful for coming home in the dark too.

squeaky

jobbingmusician wrote: »

On a different but related subject - is anyone else furious at the phasing out of old style 'not energy efficient' lightbulbs? With lightbulbs like the one in the loo which is on for only short periods (except for the people in this thread leaving them on all night ) it is far more energy efficient to have instant full light - most of the energy in energy efficient bulbs is used warming them up, so old style bulbs are far better in loos, pantries - anywhere where you spend only a short time!

Not furious - but certainly not pleased. As it is I have saved all of the old light bulbs for just such "problem areas".

Not to mention the fact that these low energy things don't do well with dimmer switches.

There is an alternative though. Two, actually. You can get LED lights, or you can use low voltage halogen spot or floodlights. I've got a mix of low energy, low voltage and LED around the house - so the only place I really need an old fashioned filament bulb for is the dimmer light.

euronorris

We don't leave any lights on, but we don't have any little ones either. We don't need them, your eyes adjust and it's a small apartment anyway. I do turn the loo light on once I'm in there, but that's cause there are no windows, so no streelights beaming in at all.

Any burglar would have to get through 2 locked doors, before he got to us, or through a 3rd storey window. Both possible, but unlikely. It is more likely that our neighbours would be the ones to get burgled.

Did accidentally leave the bathroom light on one day, before heading off to work. Came home to find it had exploded/fallen and there was broken glass everywhere! So we are extra careful about ensuring that light is turned off now. I thought I had got every last bit of glass from there too, but turns out I didn't as managed to cut my toe yesterday (the light incident was over a month ago!).

LJM

we used to leave the bathroom light on for my girls but now they just have a nightlight in their room

DebtFree2012

We don't have any main lights on but we do have a fish tank light which is dull but gives enough light for my DD to see when she gets up (age 4). When we stayed in the country before I couldn't believe how dark it was on a night and she woke up and commented she couldn't see anymore mammy - bless her.

dandy-candy

DebtFree2012 wrote: »

We don't have any main lights on but we do have a fish tank light which is dull but gives enough light for my DD to see when she gets up (age 4). When we stayed in the country before I couldn't believe how dark it was on a night and she woke up and commented she couldn't see anymore mammy - bless her.

I stayed in a farmhouse B&B in Sussex once that was in the middle of nowhere, and when the light went out it was darkness like I have never known. I actually had a bit of a freak-out because it made feel claustrophobic - kind of hard to explain, I felt like I was in a box because you couldn't judge how high the ceiling was from you when you lay on your back IYSWIM - ok i'm just nutty

LandyAndy

We have somthing like this



on the landing.

It plugs into a socket and emits a low light when the anbient light falls below a certain level.

LandyAndy

dandy-candy wrote: »

I stayed in a farmhouse B&B in Sussex once that was in the middle of nowhere, and when the light went out it was darkness like I have never known. I actually had a bit of a freak-out because it made feel claustrophobic - kind of hard to explain, I felt like I was in a box because you couldn't judge how high the ceiling was from you when you lay on your back IYSWIM - ok i'm just nutty

We had this when we visited MrsLA's sister in the USA. She lived in the middle of nowhere. At night you, literally, couldn't see your hand in front of your face. Very disconcerting.

lostinrates

LandyAndy wrote: »

We had this when we visited MrsLA's sister in the USA. She lived in the middle of nowhere. At night you, literally, couldn't see your hand in front of your face. Very disconcerting.

you see, I love that. Really love it. It feels ''healthy'' and less ''artificial''. We can rarely get that and its fabulous when we get close. Stars look so much better and of course....we have lighting if we need it for those times.