What colour light bulbs do you guys prefer for home?

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What colour light bulbs do you guys prefer for home?

Postby BZR4AGE » Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:28 am

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?
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Postby jakesae101 » Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:40 am

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
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Postby Alex B » Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:17 pm

In a kitchen or what ever, i prefer daylight bulbs, but in living areas then warm white.
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Postby BZR4AGE » Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:23 pm

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.
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Postby Bling » Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:53 pm

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.
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Postby jakesae101 » Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:53 pm

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
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Postby Bling » Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:54 pm

Whats soft tone?
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Postby jakesae101 » Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:57 pm

warm white i think
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Postby BZR4AGE » Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:20 pm

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:
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Postby Bling » Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:04 pm

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:
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Postby deaf_rattle » Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:19 pm

BZG|Bling wrote:Whats soft tone?

What's

sorry... :lol:
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Postby Alex B » Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:25 pm

Blakjak would be so proud :lol:
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Postby Emperor » Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:26 pm

I prefer white. Just because I hate dark rooms.
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Postby deaf_rattle » Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:31 pm

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!
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Postby Bling » Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:42 pm

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:
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Postby deaf_rattle » Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:42 pm

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
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Postby Bling » Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:47 pm

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.
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Postby Adamal » Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:53 pm

Your mum, Luke :P
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Postby Alex B » Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:36 pm

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.
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Postby BZR4AGE » Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:54 am

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!
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