I need a new porch light. Mine is less than 10 years old and already it doesn't go on most of thetime when people walk up to it, and it's even harder to get it on byflipping the switch. 20 tries and I give up. But few** porch lights now have "frosted"** glass or the equivalent thatis hard to see clearly through. **What word am I looking for? Why is that? It was easy to get 10 years ago. **And the ones that have the right glass are missing other things, likelike IR sensor, daylight sensor, or they look like they belong on achrome skyscraper, instead of my 1979 house which was the boyhood homeof the first governor of Maryland. Most have clear glass, or seeded glass which is just clear glass with afew imperfections. I wanted "frosted" so people couldn't see inside and realize it's not agas flame or a candle, or whatever they used to use. Mostly that theycouldn't see that it's a light bulb.

I have the cracked glass look with edison style bulbs. Very appealing to me.

Why no "frosted" porch lights

Nov 21, 2021 Last reply: 4 years ago 62 Replies

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angelica... 4 years ago

Hoist with my own petard. There was a shooting around the block on Thanksgiving morning. Apparently a dustup between acquaintances, so unlikely to affect me.

Because you keep replying?

Same here. They can use their headlights.

The telephone is more than 100 years old.

Before the telephone, people would leave calling cards if the person they came to see was not receiving visitors.

I should get a doorbell cam. As it is now, I have to go to the door and turn on the porch light to see who's standing there. I can't remember the last time someone came to the door at all, and even longer since it was after dark.

I live just outside a giant metropolis of 100,000 people.

Cindy Hamilton

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gfretwell 4 years ago

These days all it takes is a couple shopping centers nearby with parking lot lights that never turn off. Then the northern assholes who created our "village" decided we couldn't live without street lights on US 41 and they installed the brightest LEDs they could find. It is pretty strange that you can drive down a pretty dark road for miles, then suddenly feel like you are at home plate at a Yankees night game and a couple miles later you are back in the dark. Of course as soon as you turn off 41, you are in the dark again too. Those HOA people want mood lighting in their neighborhoods.

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micky 4 years ago

It also turns out that Amazon had a few of them, maybe 10 out of 200, and Home Depot had a lot of them,maybe 12 out of 50

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