• Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
  • Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!

Hexploding lightbulbs.

Collapse
X
  •  
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    #21
    Originally posted by Tarquin Farquhar View Post
    It's not their fault. Part L of the current Building Regulations requires new builds (including expensions) to have a certain number of "dedicated low energy light fittings" in which the owner or occupier is unable to install old-fashioned incandescent lamps. The easiest way to do that is to install the BC3 3-pin bayonet fittings: this fitting is proprietary and the owners (Eaton) don't allow anyone else to make bulbs that fit it, thus providing them with the chance to set the prices in the way that they see fit.

    .
    There has to be a plan B in there somewhere to supply BC3 to standard BC adaptors?
    "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

    Comment


      #22
      It is rather satisfying to know that when the revolution comes, and they're stringing up politicians from lamp-posts, there will be numerous members of the baying crowd who will have been tipped over the edge by these light bulbs.

      It's funny how the most, apparently, insignificant things can start a bloody revolution.

      Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
      threadeds website, and here's my blog.

      Comment


        #23
        no taxation without illumination
        (\__/)
        (>'.'<)
        ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

        Comment


          #24
          Originally posted by threaded View Post
          It is rather satisfying to know that when the revolution comes, and they're stringing up politicians from lamp-posts, there will be numerous members of the baying crowd who will have been tipped over the edge by these light bulbs.

          It's funny how the most, apparently, insignificant things can start a bloody revolution.

          There'll never be a revolution in the UK - we're too busy eating Government supplied cake...

          Comment


            #25
            Pleae tell me it was an energy saving lightbulb. I hate those things!
            'Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual'. -
            Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch.

            Comment


              #26
              Originally posted by zeitghost
              Nope.

              It was a cheap & nasty Tesco 100W tungsten filament light bulb.

              With added explosive, judging by the results.
              thats got to break some 'elf and safety rule somewhere, sue them and get paid millions in compensation
              This default font is sooooooooooooo boring and so are short usernames

              Comment

              Working...
              X