Any electicians out there

[023mjc]

I'm hoping there is an electirician out there who can give me a bit of advice.

We have recently redecorated and in the process we had the light fittings changed. New ceiling rose, flex etc.

I have beautiful glass shades that match a lamp so it's a set of 3 that I really don't want to part with.They previously had their own electical fittings with a chain, but became faulty over the years and cannot be repaired, so now we have had just plain white stuff put up..  Trouble is, the shades feel awfully heavy to be dangling on this wire without the chain for support.  They weigh 3 pounds.

We've got a similar shade elsewhere which is 2.5 pounds and that has been fine. Any one in the know with any thoughts. Thanks.

[right-then-petal]

hmm just a thought but i'v seen this done

fix chain to light as the old one

drill a hole in ceiling raw plug it and fix other end of chain

[malacandran]

My light-bulbs are placed in ordinary light-sockets. They give perfectly adequate illumination, with simple, inexpensive shades, bought in a  supermarket.

Therefore I cannot quite understand why anyone wants shades which weigh 3 pounds.

Does the weight of the shades improve light quality?  Or is it just a matter of wanting to be "upper-class"?

[wskneil]

Light bulbs? Oh ladedah. I make candles made from blocks of lard and a bit of string.

[023mjc]

No, the weight of the shade does not improve the quality of the light, and I have no wish, or need to pretend I'm upper class. I'm as good as any one else.

I have heavy glass shades because I bought them 40 years ago because I liked them. I still like them, and would like to keep them. That's my reason for wanting them, and I really don't care whether you understand it or not.

As you assume I have glass shades because I want to be upper class, you must also assume that your own cheap supermarket shades make you lower class. Your own take on things - not mine.

There was no need to be rude.

[023mjc]

Thanks for the suggestion petal. However we have just spoken to an electician friend and he said the flexes were good up to six pounds (should any one else ever need to know) so we'll be OK. Thanks again.

[right-then-petal]

Good Sorted

[malacandran]

023mjc,  thanks, I didn't mean to be rude - just couldn't understand the importance of "heavy glass shades".

Perhaps the importance comes from fashion.  Like, wearing a watch.  Any watch will tell the right time. But if it's a "Rolex" watch, it also supplies "fashion".  Which is what the "heavy glass shades" supply.

Personally, I can't understand it.  But some buyers do.  They pay money for "fashion".  And sellers are ready to suck in the money.

What's wrong with that? 

[023mjc]

I didn't buy them because heavy glass shades were important to me -they are not and I have many other kinds in my home.

I didn't buy them because they had a fancy designer brand name - they don't.

I didn't buy them because they were fashionable - I don't give two hoots about what's trendy, never have,and as I said before they are 40 years old so would hardly be fashionable now anyway. 

I didn't buy them because they were expensive - they were actually quite cheap from my friends catalogue.

Believe it or not I didn't buy them because I thought they would enhance my class either, as you have previously suggested.

I bought them because I liked them. Isn't that what every one does? What's wrong with that?

My OP was asking for electrical advice. It wasn't a survey to gauge peoples understanding of my taste. I don't care who understands it or who doesn't - I have what I LIKE in my home. I do find it strange though, that you don't understand that people have different tastes, or that you feel you have the right to make nasty remarks because their taste isn't the same as yours.

Your post had nothing to do with my query and was designed to be purely  spiteful. If you cannot stick to the topic of a thread, or add anything useful - ie: the advice I was asking for, you should stay away.

Subject closed!

[malacandran]

Thanks 023mjc.

My post wasn't meant to be spiteful.  Just that I can't understand why anyone should spend an absurd of money on a lightshade.

As you say, you like to do it.  Just as some people like to spend hundreds of pounds, buying a Rolex watch. Which doesn't tell the time any better than a cheap watch.  But it's got "class". 

I don't understand why that matters, but it's all a matter of opinion.