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Posted: 11/11/2017 4:19:34 PM EDT

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That one is queer. Hire a couple of college cheerleading squads and have them change it.

If you have to climb up over them, expect sexual harassment claims in 40 years.

Posted: 11/11/2017 4:19:35 PM EDT

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Who needs lights.... you just got an excuse to buy your family some nightvision

Posted: 11/11/2017 4:20:28 PM EDT

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I like this idea!

Posted: 11/11/2017 4:21:31 PM EDT

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Call an electrician and have them change out any bulb out of your reach with LED’s. Should spread the service call out some to make it tolerable.

Posted: 11/11/2017 4:32:26 PM EDT

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G19 is the answer you seek.

Posted: 11/11/2017 4:38:45 PM EDT

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Foyer doesn't look very wide from the picture. Fixture looks pretty close to the wall. Buy, borrow, or rent a 16' extension ladder, climb up, turn around and change the bulbs.

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:01:35 PM EDT

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Foyer doesn't look very wide from the picture. Fixture looks pretty close to the wall. Buy, borrow, or rent a 16' extension ladder, climb up, turn around and change the bulbs.

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or if its out of reach from the side.. bounce back and forth between the two walls trying to stop/balance the ladder at 12 o'clock LOL

brian

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:07:52 PM EDT

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I would like to know how you took the picture from above the light fixture?

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:09:18 PM EDT

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I would like to know how you took the picture from above the light fixture?

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I would like to know how you took the picture from above the light fixture?

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I had to duct tape my camera to a long extendable pole and hold it over the chandelier to get some video of what the bulbs inside look like.

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:10:02 PM EDT

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I guarantee you that decorative metal point at the bottom unscrews, and the glass comes with it to access the bulbs from underneath.

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:11:37 PM EDT

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A trampoline covered in pillows, a .22 rifle, and a suppressor.

Getting it back up?

Rockets...

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:13:07 PM EDT

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I'd bring a ladder over and help if you weren't on the other side of the Country...

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:14:21 PM EDT

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Posted: 11/11/2017 5:15:53 PM EDT

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Looks impossible. Tell your wife that light is for faggots. Done.

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:17:04 PM EDT

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Hire a ninja.

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:19:39 PM EDT

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Get the person who took the second picture to change them.

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:21:32 PM EDT

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I would like to know how you took the picture from above the light fixture?

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I had to duct tape my camera to a long extendable pole and hold it over the chandelier to get some video of what the bulbs inside look like.

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:34:53 PM EDT

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(without spending a zillion dollars on a giant ladder or scaffolding)

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You don't.

A.W.D.

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:35:52 PM EDT

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I just went through this. I rented a 14' ladder from Home Depot for $20. When I got up there I replaced the bulbs with the "28 year" long life LEDs.

No worries.

-bob

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:40:52 PM EDT

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OP this only works if you haven’t purchased the house yet? Answer is simply don’t buy that or any other
house with ceilings over ten feet. Your problem is solved, or maybe not?

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:42:04 PM EDT

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You must have missed the part about how this is a McMansion, not an actual mansion.

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Even the cheapest of cheap McMansions have a motor to lower those with ease.

Hint: you aren't even close to living in a McMansion, you're in an average low-mid middle class home.

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:44:07 PM EDT

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You needed to ask GD about this?

You have any three year old kids in your house? If not, maybe a neighbor?

They have to be three. Any younger and they don't know lefty lucy, righty tighty. Any older and the duct tape at the end of the broom handle will break and they will fall. Three year old girls are much better at this as you can also duct tape their hair to the broom handle as a back up in case the tape around their waste breaks.

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:54:16 PM EDT

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I got one of those in my foyer.. I have a huge extension latter that I used to swap it out.

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:54:52 PM EDT

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1. Get a jar of peanut butter
2. Rub it all over yourself
3. ??????
4. Profit

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:56:52 PM EDT

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Satco 77606 Swivel Socket SF77-606 Base Extender $12.99

Ettore 48450 Bulb Changer Kit with Pole $24.96

Your welcome

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:58:16 PM EDT

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i just replaced ours a cpl weeks ago and had to rent scaffolding

have 22' ceilings

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:58:22 PM EDT

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Break that fancy glass out of it and you can just reach up to change it.

Posted: 11/11/2017 5:58:42 PM EDT

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You needed to ask GD about this?

You have any three year old kids in your house? If not, maybe a neighbor?

They have to be three. Any younger and they don't know lefty lucy, righty tighty. Any older and the duct tape at the end of the broom handle will break and they will fall. Three year old girls are much better at this as you can also duct tape their hair to the broom handle as a back up in case the tape around their waste breaks.

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Guess I’m SOL. Got a 4yo and a set of 2yo twins. I’ll have to wait until the twins get older, but maybe they can work together by that age.

Posted: 11/11/2017 6:01:57 PM EDT

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Posted: 11/11/2017 6:02:00 PM EDT

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Go into attic. Use a hammer to bust a hole in the drywall. Reach through and easily replace bulbs.

Problem solved. Problem staying solved

Posted: 11/11/2017 6:06:19 PM EDT

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Posted: 11/11/2017 6:08:35 PM EDT

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Obviously you just need to channel your inner Sam Fisher:

Posted: 11/11/2017 6:11:27 PM EDT

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Even the cheapest of cheap McMansions have a motor to lower those with ease.

Hint: you aren't even close to living in a McMansion, you're in an average low-mid middle class home.

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You must have missed the part about how this is a McMansion, not an actual mansion.

Even the cheapest of cheap McMansions have a motor to lower those with ease.

Hint: you aren't even close to living in a McMansion, you're in an average low-mid middle class home.

LOL okay bud

I work in million dollar mcmansions and actual real mansions all year long, maybe 1% have lifts. 1 out of a hundred. I install them occasionally as well, at a price of $3000-5000 depending on the ceiling and model. I don't know what his actual house is, but your statement is laughable and you literally have no clue of what goes on outside of your moms basement.

Posted: 11/11/2017 6:13:40 PM EDT

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Extension ladder is your answer. Maybe harbor freight? Folding extension type - $80-90.

Unless there is a remote lowering setup you don't know about.

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HF has their 17 foot one Black Friday for 100 bucks.

Posted: 11/11/2017 6:55:09 PM EDT

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(without spending a zillion dollars on a giant ladder or scaffolding)

Front entryway, stupid McMansion. Chandelier is probably 15ft up and I'd have to reach up and over the top because the bulbs are only accessible from the top.

I had to duct tape my camera to a long extendable pole and hold it over the chandelier to get some video of what the bulbs inside look like.

I looked around online but I don't see a device I could control from the floor that would remotely unscrew these bulbs.

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better get on the maid to improve her dusting - next time she's up there, she can change the bulbs

Posted: 11/11/2017 7:07:06 PM EDT

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Buy and new fixture and just use a 8 foot ladder next time. I have the same thing like a 12-14’ foyer.

Posted: 11/11/2017 7:22:41 PM EDT

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Buy and new fixture and just use a 8 foot ladder next time. I have the same thing like a 12-14’ foyer.

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That must be the nicest house in Somali!

Posted: 11/11/2017 7:33:30 PM EDT

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I would like to know how you took the picture from above the light fixture?

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I had to duct tape my camera to a long extendable pole and hold it over the chandelier to get some video of what the bulbs inside look like.

This thread would be a lot funnier if OP dropped his phone in there...

Posted: 11/11/2017 7:35:12 PM EDT

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If you go into the attic you will see the builder leaves more than enough chain to lower it to the ground for service.

Posted: 11/11/2017 7:37:33 PM EDT

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Don't replace them, just buy a new fixture that has fresh bulbs.

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Dude is right. Have somebody install it and all your problems are solved. Use LED lights next time.

Posted: 11/11/2017 7:37:37 PM EDT

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Buy two ladders, have a buddy help you out, innovate/adapt and overcome...

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Oh man...

Posted: 11/11/2017 7:39:49 PM EDT

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Here ya go

Posted: 11/11/2017 7:40:45 PM EDT

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This thread would be a lot funnier if OP dropped his phone in there...

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I was more worried about dropping it to the ground. Didn’t even think about dropping it in the chandelier.

Thankfully Gorilla Tape is pretty strong.

Posted: 11/11/2017 7:42:03 PM EDT

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I already have 3 little monkeys, I don’t need any more.

Posted: 11/11/2017 7:42:04 PM EDT

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I've heard this one before. 2 lesbians, a ladder and a jar of olives.

Oh wait, nevermind.

Posted: 11/11/2017 7:43:17 PM EDT

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Rent a 16' A frame ladder, I'm an electrician and my shop doesn't even own those since we use them so little so when we need one we just rent it.

Posted: 11/11/2017 7:44:26 PM EDT

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Posted: 11/11/2017 7:45:35 PM EDT

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I have a walkway near mine. I barely got a paint roller on an extension rod to hook it and pull it towards me to put LED bulbs in it.

When the time comes to dust off that little platform I am hoping my leaf blower has enough power

Posted: 11/11/2017 7:49:38 PM EDT

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I was about too say to suck it up and go by a 16' fiberglass A Frame ladder, but I'll be damned if when I went to the HD website to get the link the thing wasn't $600.

No idea when or where I got mine, but it's a heavy bitch to move and if I didn't own it and was in your situation I'd venture you'd be able to find someone to change them for a hell of a lot less than $600.