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Originally Posted by Ace
I Might go mad! I have this light fixture and I can't get at the bulb...I have two other fixtures that are identical in the house, usually the glass dome just unscrews off, this one won't budge! Any suggestions, do I need to call an electrician? Like What the heck!
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Sometimes those crappy lights (no offence, they're in almost every track built house in the last 10 years)(including mine) have imperfections in the globe, so the finishing electrician just screws it in there so that it's good enough. What you want to do here is get some gloves, get up on a ladder so that your face isn't underneath the globe, and forcefully unscrew it. The globe might break, hence the gloves, and the fact that your face isn't underneath it.
If it breaks, you can probably buy a replacement globe at Carringtons, or buy a new fixture at HD, and chuck the fixture and use the globe. $20 or less. Might want to take a pic of the globe first, and measure the diameter of the fixture before you go to Carringtons.