Fluorescent Tube Ban Sept 2023

Mark Carver · 2023-06-13T13:42:48+00:00

Just been to to TLC to purchase some comfort components, and noticed a poster saying Fluorescent Tubes will be banned from Sept 2023.Presumably the sale, but after Googling there's suggestions that their use will also be banned from that date, but all the sources of that are from LED vendors.Is that right, I seemed to have missed the news until today ?My mother still has them in her kitchen and bathroom in her 1980s timewarp house, I was planning to swap them out for LED tubes this summer while there's lots of daylight available.I suppose the next challenge will be disposal, so I'll get a move on !

Jun 13, 2023 Last reply: 3 years ago 83 Replies

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Thomas Prufer 3 years ago

There's something made for the purpose, a powder called -- wait for it -- "Mercurysorb"...

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Rod Speed 3 years ago

Ruffed up.

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me9 3 years ago

They need to fit thenm correctly. On one local estate they've retrofitted them on very short poles and give a very small pool of light. On my estate they've fitted them on angled poles of suitable height, with fittings designed to be mounted horizontal and unadjustableso they shine into the bedroom windows on one side of the road, compounded outside my house with one over teh road with extra leds to shine down a road opposite the lamp, which doesn't exist, only a turning bay.

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Bob Henson 3 years ago

I am sure you're correct in that it requires forethought and skill to get it right. I think ours were done by Boy Scouts on Bob-a-Job week.

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