Lampshade query

moneyistooshorttomention

It's been many years since I last bought lampshades.

On looking at new lampshades to have a few replacements, I see that every single one of them seems to have a label on saying not to use lightbulbs over 60 watts (or the "eco" equivalent) in them.

Obviously lightbulbs are 100 watts (or "eco" equivalent) normally, so obviously lampshades must be suitable for that. I am still using standard 100 watt old style bulbs and will be for a while yet (as I stocked up a lot before they got withdrawn from the shops).

Are there lampshades out there where the manufacturer hasnt put an unrealistically low wattage level on a label on them? Or are they absolutely all like that - so people just have to cut the labels off/use commonsense and ignore such an unrealistically low "wattage level" put on them?

When I think that I've been buying lampshades long enough that I recall when all my lampshades were those 1970s paper globe ones and I never had any problem. I expect those have also got the "60 watt" label put on them these days too:(

doningtonphil

100 watt normal?

Maybe it was the way I was brought up but I have always viewed 60 watt as the 'standard' bulb with lower wattages used for mood lighting or where you could get away with a dimmer light.

100 watt was just for when we wanted to blind someone or to keep warm with:eek:

No wonder money is too short to mention if your whole house is lit with 100w bulbs

What was everyone elses 'normal' bulb?

As an 'eco equivalent' of a 100w bulb would be cooler than a standard 60w bulb why would a lampshade not be suitable?

loracan1

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Are there lampshades out there where the manufacturer hasnt put an unrealistically low wattage level on a label on them? Or are they absolutely all like that - so people just have to cut the labels off/use commonsense and ignore such an unrealistically low "wattage level" put on them?

I'm not sure that simply 'cutting the labels off' makes a difference.

Ectophile

loracan1 wrote: »

I'm not sure that simply 'cutting the labels off' makes a difference.

Obviously, it's so the label doesn't catch fire when you put in a bulb that's too high wattage for the shade

In any case, the standard fluorescent replacement for a 100W lamp is about 22W, so there's no problem using a shade rated for 60W.