Installing Compact Fluorescent Lighting in Your House

- June 20, 2010, 1:03 am

An easy and cheaper way to improve your residential lighting fixtures could be to upgrade from incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) for your normal lights. One CFL could pay for itself in about 6 months, and then manage to save approximately $30 in power bills during its lifetime. CFLs use 75 percent less electricity than an incandescent bulb, and will last about 10 times longer. Don't forget to look at the Ceiling Fan Lights.

CFLs need much less energy because of the way they produce light. Incandescent bulbs incorporate a current which passes through a wire filament and heats that filament until it makes it glow. That amber filament glow is the source of incandescent light. Alternately, a CFL shoots an electric current the length of a tube which contains

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