I have one light in my living room that drives me nuts! It’s an old standing lamp that I got from my parents house when my mother died. I think there’s something wrong with the wiring in the light fixture.
It’s a Tri-light lamp and it seems to burn through bulbs every few months. Once a bulb starts to go it’s tri-light feature stops working. It will usually lose the low light setting first, then the high setting and only the medium will work. The light will also flicker on and off every few minutes too.
I think maybe this weekend (if we have time – see last post!) we’ll have to go and look at light fixtures. Maybe we can find a new fixture to put in the lamp that won’t fizzle lights so quickly. I’d get a whole new light for the living room 1. if we could afford it, and 2 if this one didn’t have sentimental value. I hope that we can fix it.
I don’t know if all tri-lights fizzle out like this when they go, but I figure that our bulbs should last at least five or six months instead of the three months we’re getting for each bulb on average. I don’t have any other tri-lights in the house to compare this one to.
Do you have any lights or appliances in your home that don’t work the way they should? Isn’t it frustrating?
Since you inherited this light I am going to assume that it is an older light. Tri-lights should not work anything as you describe but what worries me the most is the flickering. This can mean you have a wire inside it that is making and losing contact. If that’s the case then it is also getting very hot. I know that money is tight but getting the light fixed correctly is a lot cheaper than a fire.