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How many light bulbs does your house need?

49 replies

Katisha · 31/08/2009 20:37

DH and I have just added up how many light bulbs the various applainces need in our house and I am staggered!
Off the top of my head I would have said about 12. But actually it's more that 4 times that! Most of them in the kitchen what with all the congealed concealed lighting etc.
I hasten to add they are not all on at once...

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sherby · 31/08/2009 20:38

9

GentleOtter · 31/08/2009 20:40

29 half of them are broken unused.

teenytinypontipine · 31/08/2009 20:43

37

teenytinypontipine · 31/08/2009 20:43

weird normally : o is a shortcut but here its a grin :|

sherby · 31/08/2009 20:44

37?

37?????

omg

Katisha · 31/08/2009 20:44
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Ponders · 31/08/2009 20:45

28 I think

sherby · 31/08/2009 20:46

Lobby, living room, kitchen, hallway, bathroom, bedroom 1, bedroom 2 and two lamps

where the feck do you put 37 lightbulbs?

teenytinypontipine · 31/08/2009 20:47

I know, was very shocked myself when I counted them all ^^

fishie · 31/08/2009 20:47

i should think about 60 because dh is LED mad and they are dimdimdim so we need squillions.

teenytinypontipine · 31/08/2009 20:48

3 x bedrooms, utility room 2 x bathrooms living room, dining room, halls

sherby · 31/08/2009 20:49

is this your house

teenytinypontipine · 31/08/2009 20:49

and kitchen

pushmepullyou · 31/08/2009 20:49

We've got 32 . And we only live in a terrace!

IOnlyReadtheDailyMailinCafes · 31/08/2009 20:49

Not counting things like bulbs in appliances we need about 30

teenytinypontipine · 31/08/2009 20:49

rofl sherby

Katisha · 31/08/2009 20:49

fishie this is our problem - all these LED little things are sooo dim! That's why we have loads in the kitchen.

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Katisha · 31/08/2009 20:50

I am counting bulbs in appliances like the cooker hood (vain attempt to justify)

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whomovedmychocolate · 31/08/2009 20:51

84

I hasten to add they are all low energy and not all on at once.

However in the studio we have 280-odd (and most of them are forty feet up and I have to put up scaffolding to change the buggers)

teenytinypontipine · 31/08/2009 20:51

84! shockeroo

sherby · 31/08/2009 20:52

I am really feeling my lack of lightbulbs now

PavlovtheForgetfulCat · 31/08/2009 20:52

8-10. oh but if i include lamps, then 14 or so, but i usually have them on instead of other lights.

fishie · 31/08/2009 20:52

katisha i love our cooker hood, it provides the only decent source of light.

i stood in ikea lighting dept yesterday and stamped my feet, demanding to have something which would floodlight my dinner. got some weirdy answer and another bloody led.

Katisha · 31/08/2009 20:53

OK comes clean - we have 56.

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fishie · 31/08/2009 20:55

i have just counted 33 on ground floor. and that is with only one in the hall, you'd break your neck without a torch...

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