they are an upper midwest USA home improvement store with one n, similar to Lowes and Home Depot.
if it is a hallway fixture it would put out not a lot of light as a task light and it would have a short chain to keep from running into.
Can you provide any cites that talk about CFL fires? This is the first I’ve heard of it, and my house is full of them. :eek:
I also have a house full of them and love them particularly since I can buy them for 26 cents apiece. Snopessays there are no documented cases. However, you can read many claims of fires started by them. I don’t know who to believe but I’ve had two that went out with the drama described by Snopes as a resistor that acts like a fuse. I wasn’t too pleased by the electrical draw that occurred just before it happened. The other lights in the fixture dimmed significantly (IE, an electrical short). Scared the crap out of me because I didn’t realize it was the bulb causing the problem.
Certainly one doesn’t want a standard CFL on a dimmer circuit but what happens when your house current dips because of outside events? Crap happens. Do you know when your house current dips to 90 volts? I’ve been in that situation before and was alerted by a computer CRT screen acting funny. I wouldn’t have known otherwise.
Do they make ceiling fans for hallways?
In any case, I don’t think the blades on this one are short enough for a hallway.
i interpreted the OP that the light/fan was replaced by a light fixture not by another light/fan.