I bought my first house two years ago and found some of the most interesting home "improvements" immaginable.
They finished the basement probably twenty years after the house was constructed (1952). Rather than actually mapping the circuits they grabbed what ever electrical was convenient to the location they were wiring. Consiquently the basement is on four separate circuits, but it gets better. The house is three levels. The three circuits they chose were on three separate levels on the house. So you could blow the bathroom circuit in the basement and the top floor would lose power. Harry homeowner...
Even better than that... One day I was looking in one of the toilets and saw something I did not recognize at the bottom of the tank. Trying to figure out what it was, especially knowing that twenty or so years before I bought the house it had a drug history, I reached in to examine what interesting secret the toilet hid. I felt something semi soft and grabbed it... As I watched the toilet tank empty out on my floor I realized exactly what it was. They had used [b]calk[/b]not just to close the holes that were supposed to be for bolts and rubber grommets. Not only did they use the calk to seal it, they had not used any bolts at all... The toilet tank was attatched with calking...
Home Depot's modo, "You can do it, we can help" needs to be amended with the line "providing you pass an IQ test".
What you are looking for is a package that says "Quick Start Technology" or obviously "QST". These bulbs will start up instantly. Have them in my house.
Worked at Home Depot while in college, studied these things a lot. Sad to say my old employer and beloved home away from home will not jump on board for something so important as the environment.
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I bought my first house two years ago and found some of the most interesting home "improvements" immaginable. They finished the basement probably twenty years after the house was constructed (1952). Rather than actually mapping the circuits they grabbed what ever electrical was convenient to the location they were wiring. Consiquently the basement is on four separate circuits, but it gets better. The house is three levels. The three circuits they chose were on three separate levels on the house. So you could blow the bathroom circuit in the basement and the top floor would lose power. Harry homeowner... Even better than that... One day I was looking in one of the toilets and saw something I did not recognize at the bottom of the tank. Trying to figure out what it was, especially knowing that twenty or so years before I bought the house it had a drug history, I reached in to examine what interesting secret the toilet hid. I felt something semi soft and grabbed it... As I watched the toilet tank empty out on my floor I realized exactly what it was. They had used [b]calk[/b]not just to close the holes that were supposed to be for bolts and rubber grommets. Not only did they use the calk to seal it, they had not used any bolts at all... The toilet tank was attatched with calking... Home Depot's modo, "You can do it, we can help" needs to be amended with the line "providing you pass an IQ test".
What you are looking for is a package that says "Quick Start Technology" or obviously "QST". These bulbs will start up instantly. Have them in my house. Worked at Home Depot while in college, studied these things a lot. Sad to say my old employer and beloved home away from home will not jump on board for something so important as the environment.