bulbs keep blowing

[garysparky1]

Hi all, myself & another spark rewired a large 8 bedroomed house earlier in the year I got a call recently from customer telling me that bulbs keep blowing in 2 bathrooms 4x G9s and a candle bulb in wall light downstairs. The lights are all on the same bank of MCBs RCD protected and on 1.5m2 T&E. I have thought maybe spikes in supply would be the answer anybody got any other take on this problem, any help greatly appreciated

 

[Tuttle]

So we're all agreed that bulbs are for the garden?

Boydy

I've got an LED floodlight in my garden :laugh3:

 

[edrobbo8]

I did a job which sounds similar, 7 bed house with swimming pool house which was 4 bedrooms, kept getting emails saying lamps are blowing.

Checked all the obvious, loose neutral at switch (not possible as in a Wago) and in fitting, checked voltage, 243v so fine there......

We fitted 5 outside light fittings, switched on at the same switch, on a Friday afternoon. By Monday morning they had stopped working.....so drove an hour to the job to be told by the gardener that she had left the lights switched on all weekend, over 48 hours straight.........

Moral of the story is some customers need to be told that a light switch is not just for turning lights ON.......

 

[Aindowsimon]

Are the lamps in bathroom enclosed?? Is there a possibility of water vapour getting to lamp ? As we know with halogens we shouldn't touch with our hands as it would reduce lamp life water vapour would / could cause same problem ?

 

[Geordie Spark]

The vast majority of the time I put this down to absolutely rubbish bulbs which don't last five minutes. Are they incandescent type?

I put one in my front room a couple of weeks back when the low wattage one I had blew after about three years. Two days later it was dead.

They don't make "bulbs" like they used to.

In 1951 my Mum, Dad and me moved into another house and there was a light in the hall ( and everywhere else to of course ) but the "bulb" which was fitted in this light before we got there finally popped in 1973.

Not bad going and proves that they can be made to last longer than the do nowadays, but "they" wouldn't sell so many of them .........

 

[LeeH]

Think there is a 'bulb' in a San Francisco fire station that's been on for 50 odd years.

 

[LeeH]

Edit, 110 years!!!!!

 

[Geordie Spark]

Think there is a 'bulb' in a San Francisco fire station that's been on for 50 odd years.

You're right ... It was on TV a while back.

 

[LeeH]

Think I saw it on Mythbusters a few years back.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

If there are any divers on here they will understand the "fins" "flippers" analogy

one is a dolphin the other goes on your feet when diving

that said, I have given up being uptight about it and call them bulbs