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What colour light bulbs do you guys prefer for home?

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:28 am
by BZR4AGE
Hi guys, just trying to some research....mods...if this is not suitable feel free to remove it.

Basically the question is, do you prefer white glow light or warm glow light for domestic household uses?

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:40 am
by jakesae101
depends on what is needed i prefer cool daylight colour eco savers in the workshop but warm wite i find is better to be at the pc tubes come in 3 common colours 830 is dark orange ish colour 840 is normal warm white and 865 is cool day light and its a brighter white colour

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:17 pm
by Alex B
In a kitchen or what ever, i prefer daylight bulbs, but in living areas then warm white.

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:23 pm
by BZR4AGE
That is very interesting~ I mean I just drive around my neighbourhood a few nights, and see all warm bulbs...and I assumed that everyone loves warm instead of those energy efficient CFL white.

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:53 pm
by Bling
I have warm bulbs installed and I have energy saving white bulbs (brand new) in the cupboard.

Why you may ask? White shows up EVERY little detail in the ceiling paint job, and although the paint looks perfectly fine (I know this as I work on new houses all the time and some paint finishes are s**t) my ceiling looks pretty average! My preference would be whatever is brightest, but the white just shows up all the flaws, so bugger that :P

So took them out and they've sat in the cupboard since.

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:53 pm
by jakesae101
they do cfl in warm white or cool daylight (phillips do anyway) the cool day light are less common when i order them for work they take a bit longer to get in

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:54 pm
by Bling
Whats soft tone?

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:57 pm
by jakesae101
warm white i think

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:20 pm
by BZR4AGE
BZG|Bling, hahha, thats good info, i should change all mine to warm glow too, currently doing painting around the house, and i think my paint job can be conisdred shi*ty :lol:

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:04 pm
by Bling
Yeah I was pretty gutted tbh, new paint job and looked like absolute crap. But it a pretty good job, its just the the white light seemed to pick up EVERY slight imperfection.

Just take the white ones out if you go to sell haha. I'll put the whites back in and see how it goes :lol:

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:19 pm
by deaf_rattle
BZG|Bling wrote:Whats soft tone?

What's

sorry... :lol:

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:25 pm
by Alex B
Blakjak would be so proud :lol:

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:26 pm
by Emperor
I prefer white. Just because I hate dark rooms.

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:31 pm
by deaf_rattle
Alex B wrote:Blakjak would be so proud :lol:


no need to get the cones out! i was just taking the piss as he pointed out a gramma error in one of adamals posts.

I dont really care tbh, its not an english assignment!

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:42 pm
by Bling
I don't give too hoots about grammar on here, was only pointing his out as he pointed someone else's mistake out. If you're going to check my posts for mistakes be my guest :lol:

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:42 pm
by deaf_rattle
BZG|Bling wrote:I don't give too hoots about grammar on here, was only pointing his out as he pointed someone else's mistake out. If you're going to check my posts for mistakes be my guest :lol:


didnt realise that.. my bad

as you were. :D

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:47 pm
by Bling
Yeah I wondered :lol:

He made his slip up RIGHT AFTER hitting someone else up about it, so I had the right to hit him up, plus its Adamal. :wink:

On the topic of lights though, since all the sparkies are floating around, how can I get more light from my standard round downlights? I'm guessing 200w bulbs is a no no, but is there a certain bulb that's the one to go for? I lose a bulb a month on average for some stupid reason, but more light would be win.

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:53 pm
by Adamal
Your mum, Luke :P

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:36 pm
by Alex B
BZG|Bling wrote:Yeah I wondered :lol:

He made his slip up RIGHT AFTER hitting someone else up about it, so I had the right to hit him up, plus its Adamal. :wink:

On the topic of lights though, since all the sparkies are floating around, how can I get more light from my standard round downlights? I'm guessing 200w bulbs is a no no, but is there a certain bulb that's the one to go for? I lose a bulb a month on average for some stupid reason, but more light would be win.


At my old flat we had 2 60w downlights in the entire kitchen, I got some 25w or so daylight energy savers, they stuck down a little bit, so were not pretty, but man did they light the place up. Don't create so much heat for the light prduced either.

It would be really nice if they gave lightbulb stats in Lux rather than the dated watts system.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:54 am
by BZR4AGE
sorry to ask, when ppl say daylight bulbs...is it the white coloured ones?
and warm tone = yellowish colour? hahahaha, get confused in all these termologies!