replacing household lights with LED bulbs, advice sort please

FreeBear

SpanishBlue said: I still have all the old 60W/100W bulbs I took out sitting in a drawer.

I would happily give them away to a charity or anyone who wanted them, but I don't suppose there is any demand for old light bulbs?

If they were Philips Photocrescenta with an ES base, I'd be more than willing to pay for postage and bung you a few pints...

Some old bulbs do have value, but they are generally the more specialised ones.

Ultrasonic

Deleted_User said:

So did you all replace working non-LED bulbs, rather than just buying LED spares and using them when the old bulbs stopped working?

I actually still have two 100W filament  bulbs in motion triggered outdoor lights that were there when I bought my house. They're on so little that I thought I'd wait for them to fail before replacing them. Being outside I didn't think they'd last too long but both still work 3 years later.

I have a couple of CFLs inside too actually but not in the rooms I use most. It seems environmentally wasteful to get rid of them when they're still working.

jimjames

SpanishBlue said:

I would happily give them away to a charity or anyone who wanted them, but I don't suppose there is any demand for old light bulbs?

There was a bit of a market for them on eBay with people who wanted to keep running filament bulbs for some reason.

victor2

Even the bulbs in our fridge and cooker hood have gone to LED. Bulb in the oven might still be incandescent, but it's hardly used, so I'll wait until it, or the stove, dies...

markin

3 year old fridge now has no light, not paying £30 for a new led board!

Ultrasonic

markin said:

3 year old fridge now has no light, not paying £30 for a new led board!

I have  a 4 year old fridge without a light too. When the LED light in it was failing it flashed really annoyingly so I was grateful when it stopped working completely! There is no need for a light where my fridge is do I'll happily never get this fixed.

coffeehound

I have a similar thing with an ancient microwave.  When the bulb blew, it allowed me to leave the door open thus letting the inside dry out while reducing wear 'n' tear on the latch mechanism

Petriix

I have around 40 LED bulbs in my house. I always buy the cheapest I can find - usually from Toolstation or Screwfix, occasionally from Amazon. I've had 6 fail over the 5 years we've lived here. I'm ok with that rate of replacement given they cost about £1.50 each. 2 were replaced for free under warranty.

It's hard to know how much I'm saving, but at an average of 4W I think my lighting bill is £25-30 per annum. With incandescent bulbs at 5x the power that's up to £120 saved each year for roughly £70 spent. 

Ultrasonic

coffeehound said:

I have a similar thing with an ancient microwave.  When the bulb blew, it allowed me to leave the door open thus letting the inside dry out while reducing wear 'n' tear on the latch mechanism

I just turn my microwave off at the wall to achieve the same result of the light being off when the door is left open  .

Edit: I just checked out of curiosity and this saves about 26 W of power consumption.

Norman_Castle

Ikea bulbs can be good and well priced. I bought a lot of their now discontinued ryet? bulbs which were £1.

Just checked their site and noticed this, a rechargeable light bulb. https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/tosthult-rechargeable-led-bulb-00400418/