Maintenance is vital to efficient lighting in your home. Light levels decrease over time because of aging lamps and dirt on fixtures, lamps and room surfaces. Together, these factors can reduce total illumination by 50% or more, while lights continue drawing full power.
Many older indoor lighting fixtures trap a significant portion of light inside the fixture. Newer incandescent fixtures are designed to push all their light out into the room.
Follow these basic maintenance suggestions to help keep your lights operating at their optimum energy efficiency:
Clean fixtures, lamps and lenses every 6 to 24 months by wiping off the dust. Note: Never clean an incandescent bulb while it is turned on. The water’s cooling effect will shatter the hot bulb.
Replace lenses if they appear yellow.
Common lamps, especially incandescent and fluorescent lamps, lose 20–30% of their light output during their service life. Many lighting experts recommend replacing all the lamps in a lighting system at once. This saves labor, keeps illumination high and avoids stressing any ballasts with dying lamps.
Maintenance is vital to efficient lighting in your home. Light levels decrease over time because of aging lamps and dirt on fixtures, lamps and room surfaces. Together, these factors can reduce total illumination by 50% or more, while lights continue drawing full power.
Many older indoor lighting fixtures trap a significant portion of light inside the fixture. Newer incandescent fixtures are designed to push all their light out into the room.
Follow these basic maintenance suggestions to help keep your lights operating at their optimum energy efficiency:
Clean fixtures, lamps and lenses every 6 to 24 months by wiping off the dust. Note: Never clean an incandescent bulb while it is turned on. The water’s cooling effect will shatter the hot bulb.
Replace lenses if they appear yellow.
Common lamps, especially incandescent and fluorescent lamps, lose 20–30% of their light output during their service life. Many lighting experts recommend replacing all the lamps in a lighting system at once. This saves labor, keeps illumination high and avoids stressing any ballasts with dying lamps.
