to think that whoever designed and created the GU10 halogen lamp is a fucking maniac and an altogether Bad Thing?

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Fucking sodding fucking GU10 halogen bulbs. What fucking maniac designed them?

I've spent 35 minutes changing 2 of them. The third is still waiting but I had to take a break. I am swearing copiously. I am feeling psychopathic with a deep, venomous bitterness towards whoever designed this thing. First time I've ever changed the light bulb and I'm going to have to get rid of the light fitting and buy a new one, unless someone can tell me if there's a secret method of which I know nothing.

Right, back up the ladder now.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

www.amazon.co.uk/Clas-36-4550-Halogen-Bulb-Removal/dp/B00BVZPFOY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1402519130&sr=8-3&keywords=gu10+removal+tool

This helps

It's the same with G9 bulbs.

Actually, Poundland do bulbs cheap. Two G9's for a pound. They may do GU10's.

Does that work for actually putting the bulb in?

I didn't have too much trouble taking it out - a bit fiddly, but not too bad. It's the putting it in which is nightmarish.

Yes, it's what I use.

one of only two reasons I let my ex husband through the door

OMG I can't believe it.

I climbed up the ladder expecting to be there for another 20 minutes.

It slotted straight in.

And the sodding light bulb doesn't work.

I am feeling so sweary just now.

Agree they are horrible. I have 3 in a fitting in the utility room and only one works, dh has gone away for 10 days and I know it's going to blow at a really inopportune moment.

I also hate gu 9 halogen bulbs, not least as our fittings are on the landing and you have to reach over the stair well to get them so slightest wobble and you could fall head first over the bannister - does make you think which idiot decided to put a light fitting here - bloody builders! Anyhow, I digress.

My gu9 fittings have been blowing quite a lot recently - last week we got a couple of LED versions to try... I was worried they wouldn't be bright enough but if anything they are brigher than the halogen ones and the light itself is a bluer, brighter light than the halogen ones. I'm hoping that they will need changing a lot less often - they're more expensive (although if they last a year they probably will be on par with the others as they blow so often) but supposed to last significantly longer and use much less energy. so far I've been impressed - and the other ones in the light haven't blown either so maybe it's because it's not getting as hot as it was or something, who knows...

worth thinking about at least trying one to see how they do for you - they do gu10 equivalents too.

Our house is full of them and I hate them so much. It's why I now have a large collection of candles. It's much easier to light a candle than slot a GU10 into place. We thought we'd solved it, the other day, when we bought LED ones and two of them slotted in first time. First time we were almost sobbing with joy. The next one was a fecker though so it's back to the drawing board.
We should start a support group

We OHhave just changed a load..I tend to wait till lots need doing as they irritate me so much. Wearing rubber gloves helps. They are marginally better than the 12v ones with pins

Every single light fitting in my old house was a GU10.
So that was 30 in total! Bad times!

LOL at starting a support group.

OMG Oldraver - you mean there are worse designed lightbulbs out there? OMG.

I changed all of ours over to LED ones because I hated changing them so much. Sod the expense, the wiring in both this and our previous house hasn't been up to halogens so halogens blow all the bloody time.

I am so glad I found this thread, we have them too and I hate the fiddly fuckers.

Another hater here. They are designed to incite rage.

Lol - no-one has ever admitted inventing GU10 bulbs yet online, you will search in vain for anyone ever to admit to it. They are the worlds worst invention.