> The luxury days of installing an incandescent bulb that lasts for ten years are gone, lucky to get six months out of "contractor grade" LED products and consu

> The luxury days of installing an incandescent bulb that lasts for ten years are gone, lucky to get six months out of "contractor grade" LED products and consumer devices usually don't make it much over a year. I'm always surprised to read such comments, incandescent bulbs definitely burned out regularly, and the LEDs we have now are more or less as durable in my experience. I still have a few CFL bulbs that are more than 10 years old (that I keep because their slow warm-up is actually desirable in some cases) and my Ikea LED bulbs are all between five and three years old. One of them (out of 12 I think?) did fail last year, it was four years old.