No, apparently it’s called a GU10 bulb, the normal US bulbs are ES “Edison screws.”
Oh that looks exactly like the kind of thing needed for this stupid bulb! I may have to go that route. Thanks for that.
I have a kit like that with a telescoping pole, but it’s not 20 feet long.
My kitchen over counter lights use those. Switched to LED versions years back. They go about 2-3 years before replacement. Available in various color temperatures too. I prefer warm white myself.
Our range hood has them. When one went out I played around with it for 15 minutes or so before figuring out how to remove the bulb.
As I mentioned in a mini-rant in MPSIPS, I just replaced the battery in an old laptop, which only required unscrewing about a dozen screws and popping the back open, then unplugging the battery from the MB and I/O board. No special tools needed, except for having something thin enough to pry the back off after unscrewing it - I used a hotel keycard I had laying around, although the instructional video I watched suggested a guitar pick.
If you need a 20 foot long pole to change lightbulbs, then the stupid design isn’t the light fixture, it’s the ceiling being that high up.
Even if that’s the case, the pole that you do have will at least let you use a shorter ladder, and it also wouldn’t be that hard to retrofit on a longer pole.
You need a Spurger
I should have known there was a specialized tool for that sort of thing.
Spudger.
It’s my accent!
I was guessing a “Spurger” was a tool for removing spurge, a type of flat spreading weed that commonly invades lawns:
I think spurge is the most satisfying pest weed in the world. You can remove a square foot of it with a single gentle tug. Talk about being productive in your gardening! OTOH, it is far more productive than you are, guaranteeing you get to have the fun of pulling up that whole square foot of spurge regularly. And it’s nearby offspring. And theirs …
Seconded.
I really don’t understand the architectural enthusiasm for rooms multiple stories high in residential buildings. Nobody can get at the light fixtures or the windows. The usable room at the bottom of the space becomes difficult to heat. Put a floor in there and get an extra usable room out of the space, while solving both of those problems.
Is it supposed to somehow be impressing people that you can afford to pay to enclose and to heat/cool a lot of space you can’t use, while making cleaning and lighting it massively difficult?
Yes, that is precisely the point of it. (My cousin is a home architect. Those high ceilings are selling features. Not my preference…)
Which is why I patrol my yard every 48 hours or so with a sprayer of industrial-strength weed killer. If spurge ever gets a foothold, you’re screwed.
One reason in the south is that heat rises, so tall ceilings mean a cooler space where the humans hang out. Go look at the ceiling heights in old southern mansions.
But mostly it’s because people like open space to live in. Otherwise we’d break up all interior spaces into 10x10 boxes, or we’d all move back in to 900 sq ft. pillbox bungalows.
We have a medium sized 2-storey with a walkway between bedrooms on the upper level, and a completely open main level with floor to ceiling 2-story windows overlooking a lake and our yard. It’s beautiful. But yes, it’s inefficient. And replacing all those windows is going to cost tens of thousands. We get a lot of solar heating in winter which more than offsets the extra AC charges in summer from the south facing windows. And we have more than enough space in the house for us, so the open nature of it just makes for more pleasant living spaces.
Yep. We have loft ceilings, and huge Southern facing windows. It’s a passive solar house. We get lots of heat in the winter. So much that we sometimes have to open windows.
We live waaaaay up in the Colorado mountains, so no air conditioning. Hell, we had snow yesterday.
My mom’s house has standard 8’ ceilings, and not many windows really. It feels like a cave, especially in winter when you can’t open the doors.
Once people get used to living with massive windows and the outside always dominating your view inside, it becomes hard to live in a conventional dwelling. Cave indeed.
Of course, humans being what they are, there are always folks with the opposite desire. To them, natural light is bad, natural warmth is weird, and the chance someone might see inside their abode is a source of terror.
Obviously how close your neighbors are and who they are affects this latter bit. But even when neighbors are not a factor, some folks just hate having the outside affecting their inside. Not me, but whatever …
This, plus light affecting her Macular Degeneration is why my mom always had the black out shades drawn on all windows. I do understand, an elderly woman living alone.
Now that she has passed on, when I go to the house I open every shade and door. While not that many windows, the difference is astounding. At least to this person that lives in a VERY sunny house.
My house has 8’ ceilings downstairs, and 7’ upstairs. And lots and lots of large windows.
The basement, I’ll give you: 6’ height to the rafters, and two very small windows. That is rather cavelike. But the living quarters are in no way cavelike.
I need large amounts of natural light including inside the house, and as much as possible adjust the temperature inside the house by opening and closing those very large windows; almost none of which usually have curtains drawn, and some of which don’t have any curtains. To portray people who don’t want to live with the hassles of 20’ ceilings as all going in terror of the outdoors is absurd.
That the design may make more sense in hot parts of the world is another matter. IMO a lot more houses ought to be designed better for the specific environment that they’re built in.