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homebase

Posted: Sat Mar 11 2023 12:10pm
by blythburgh
Need a bulb for bathroom so buy online for cashback and collect from them as they are the local DIY place. Suspenders sigh

Re: homebase

Posted: Sat Mar 11 2023 12:15pm
by blythburgh
went elsewhere but no bulb shown that matches what we want. gggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Re: homebase

Posted: Sat Mar 11 2023 4:04pm
by expressman33
Just buy it without cashback - not worth the bother for 1 bulb

Re: homebase

Posted: Sat Mar 11 2023 5:10pm
by Richard Frost
Or pm your address and I will send you half a dozen, got loads over the years from the leccy company. When they were encouraging people to get long life bulbs. I think the government was incentivising them to do so.

Re: homebase

Posted: Sat Mar 11 2023 6:19pm
by blythburgh
Thanks but it is not a normal bulb but a special one for the bathroom

Re: homebase

Posted: Sat Mar 11 2023 6:28pm
by blythburgh
Got to Homebase and they had none in stock. So Wickes is the next DIY place but that is in the north of the town. Only 2 roads between us in the south of the town and the north until they finish the new bridge. So straight down London Road South, over the bascule bridge round Station Square and up Denmark Road then turn left for a few yards and you are there.

But LRS is closed for sewage pipe work so a long detour to get to the bascule bridge. Then an even longer detour to get to Wickes and the rest of the shops on the retail park because Denmark Road is closed for 6 months so they can work on the bridge.

Pay £4 for the new bulb only to find it was not the bulb but a problem with the pull string that turns bathroom on and off