If you are looking to decorate your home with class and sophistication, then a chandelier is the way to go. Chandeliers add elegance to a home, along with being a perfect center point that looks beautiful and brings an entire room together. This type of lighting fixture can be the cornerstone to the rest of your decor, too.

With all of the different choices in chandeliers that you’ll find out there, sometimes it can be difficult to choose just the right type and style for your home. You will first need to consider the overall decorating style that you have in your home, and then you can add upon that idea. There are many different types of chandeliers available with varied styles including; modern, vintage, shabby chic, elegant, etc.

The chandelier that you choose should fit in nicely with the décor in your home and add to the overall appearance and interior design of the particular room that it’s located in. Whether you want a large scale chandelier or something a bit on the smaller side, a chandelier is a very important home decorating purchase. When you’re ready to install your new chandelier, you’ll want the assistance of a licensed electrician for the installation, so finding the right Los Angeles electrician should be the next step after your purchase.

The Electric Connection is your reliable resource for a professional electrician in Los Angeles. The Electric Connection will be able to install your perfectly chosen chandelier, and help you out with any other types of electrical wiring, outlets, repairs, electrical installations or electrical upgrades that you might need.

Remember, it’s vital to hire an electrical contracting company that is both licensed and experienced when it comes to lighting installations. The Electric Connection will ensure a quality job every time, and we will do it right the first time. You’ll want to make sure that you’re receiving the best type of specialized lighting installation services for your new chandelier, and The Electric Connection can competently take care of the entire process for you. You can always find out more about our company by visiting our website at The Electric Connection.

CFLs are those new, small fluorescent light bulbs that screw into most regular light fixtures. You can use them to replace regular (incandescent) bulbs to save money and electricity. As the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power gets over 60% of its electricity from fossil fuels, especially coal, any time you replace a regular incandescent bulb with a CFL, it’s one small step towards reducing fossil fuel use in L.A.

CFLs come in all different shapes, but basically they’re a fluorescent tube bent this way or that or twisted into a spiral. “CFL” stands for “Compact Fluorescent Lamp.” They’re more compact than the long fluorescent tubes of our childhoods. They’re lamps, which is electrician-speak for “light bulb.” Here’s why they’re green — they save 75% of the energy that traditional incandescents use.

Here’s why they save you money — they cost more than a regular incandescent, but last a lot longer — 13 times longer. So even though each CFL costs more per bulb (about $4 for a CFL), it will also save you about $4 in bulbs as you won’t have to replace it so often.

Your electric bill will show more significant savings. Lighting costs about $20 out of $100 monthly electric bill. Because CFLs use one-quarter of the electricity of a regular incandescent, if you replace all the bulbs in your house with CFLs, you’ll save about $15 each month on a $100 electric bill.

CFLs are green, but not blue. Many people don’t enjoy the eerie bluish light of the old-fashioned long fluorescent tubes. CFLs can create all different colors of light, including warm tones. A recent study by the magazine Popular Mechanics found that even when people didn’t know which type of bulb was involved, they preferred the light of the CFL over the light from incandescent bulbs. CFLs also don’t buzz as the long tubes did.

CFLs have one downside — they each contain a small amount of mercury, which is a toxin. If a bulb breaks, you’ll need to take care to clean every bit up and to not touch the pieces. You’ll need to recycle spent bulbs or dispose of them as you would paint or other hazardous waste. However, they’re so long lasting that this will come up on the order of years, rather than months.

OK so you have a basic understanding of CFLs, now what can you do that’s simple to save money and electricity? The next time you go to the store, pick up a four-pack of CFLs. Choose four incandescent lights in your home or business that you use often and replace the incandescent bulbs with your new CFLs. You’ll start saving on your electric bill and will decrease the burning of fossil fuels to power Los Angeles.

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