Where are you getting yours so cheaply?
We've replaced all of ours with these about 4 years ago, the average cost per light was around $4.00.
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"and last up to 10 times longer"
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In my own experience it has been just the opposite. The bases keep burning out.
I've easily replaced about my house and a half for failure.
For example our master bath has a long, 12-bulb fixture, so we replaced all the builders 60w incandescents with 7w globe-enclosed fancy style CFL's, along with the other two bathrooms, they have 5-bulb units, so that was 22 CFL's in all.
After ~3 months we had 10 out of 22 eventually fail for what ever reason but have not replaced them...these expensive units remain dead, still screwed in the sockets. It's kind of embarassing when we have guests, so we shuffle them around so the working ones are in the "public" bathrooms.
Only 2 bulbs light in that 12-bulb unit.
I replaced 4 150W floods that light the back with 25w CFL's. These fixtures get rained on so I bought the correct CFL designed for this, along with one in the front that illuminates the flag pole at night.
The first one burned out after about 3-4 months, so I replaced it with another CFL. A different one burned out a few weeks later so I replaced it. (~$8.00 ea) and when the 3rd one quit I gave up and replaced with 75W incandescent ones.
Eventually all my outdoor CFL floods failed within 5-6mo so I don't buy those expensive ones anymore.
With the exception of my ceiling fan fixtures and chandelier lights (CFL's can't be dimmed) and exterior floods everything is switched over. My other light fixtures are the dual socket-type and in almost all cases one of the two is burned out/not working. (No CFL is older than 4 years)
At this rate I'm always tempted to save some money and go back to the wasteful incandescents.
So......Where can I get the good deals on these that other people get? I've been getting all mine at Home Depot/Lowes.
Thanks in advance