What the hell, a light bulb just exploded in my bedroom

[Savij]

Old thread revived by new member.
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The light bulb in my bedroom lamp just exploded and now I have glass shards everywhere and burns in the mattress and carpet. In addition, the glass shards have melted and fused with th carpet so I can't even clean out all the broken glass...just noticed that it's fused to my blanket also. I think I might be replacing my stuff and the apartment complex will probably charge me to replace all of the carpet in the bedroom since I will be moving out in a couple of weeks.

The light bulb was a three way GE Reveal bulb, made in China of course. It happened just a few seconds after I turned off the light and walked out of the room. I just heard a pop and the sound of breaking/falling glass.

How does this happen? The other light bulb in the lamp looks ok but I haven't touched either the good bulb, of the base of the other one yet. Between replacing the blankets, the mattress and paying for the carpet, I think I am looking at at least a $1000. Is it worth going after GE to pay for the damages?

edit:
Burn in mattress. The picture doesn't show how deep the burn is. It goes pretty far into the mattress:

Glass fused to mattress. This is one of the larger pieces. Unfortunately, there are a lot of smaller ones stuck to the mattress:

Glass fused to carpet:

More glass in carpet:

Fused glass along with loose shards. The burn in the carpet goes all the way down to the bottom of the fibers:

Even more fused glass. This is a pretty deep burn also:

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Stop buying polyester? Sorry but, these things happen.

 

[Savij]

Stop buying polyester? Sorry but, these things happen.

I just took the sheets off the mattress to wash them...If only I had been a slob for one more day, it would have saved a whole lot of trouble.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Funny I had a CFL blow on me while on, but thankfully it was internal. It was flickering a lot so I knew it was about to go, then I heard pop and it turned off. Huge crack in the glass part. According to some "experts" I should have evacuated the house and called a hazmat team when this happened.

 

[Savij]

Burn in mattress: http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/savij/DSC00044.JPG

Glass fused to mattress: http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/savij/DSC00045.JPG

Glass fused to carpet: http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/savij/DSC00049.JPG

More glass in carpet: http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/savij/DSC00050.JPG

Fused glass along with loose shards: http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/savij/DSC00051.JPG

Even more fused glass: http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/savij/DSC00052.JPG

 

[phobsi]

Looks like you can cut out most of that glass except the last one, no?

 

[God Mode]

Sorry bro but you has ghosts. The evil kind that wants you to step on broken glass.

 

[OverVolt]

I've had CFL's explode too. Scared the shit out of me lol. Luckily it was over tile/concrete.

 

[oynaz]

Won't your insurance cover this? This sound like exactly the kind of bad luck insurance is meant for.

 

[OverVolt]

I really don't think its even close to $1000 in damage though

 

[Savij]

Looks like you can cut out most of that glass except the last one, no?

I can only cut out the first one from the carpet. The others have melted the fibers completely so that there is nothing underneath left to cut away. The pictures don't show this very well.

As far as the mattress, there are too many tiny shards (too small to take pictures of) to get all of them.

 

[Savij]

I really don't think its even close to $1000 in damage though

I'm getting that number mostly from the mattress since there are too many tiny shards that are fused to it to pick them all out. However, a friend pointed out that I could buy a mattress topper and use that for a while.

In addition, the carpet damage is spread out over at least 1/4th of the bedroom.

The $1000 came from replacing a mattress and paying the apartment complex for 1/4th of a room of carpet.

 

[Savij]

Sorry bro but you has ghosts. The evil kind that wants you to step on broken glass.

Funny you should say that, I actually live on the exact location where this was filmed: http://youtu.be/HkQAPVJ-RrI

 

[Savij]

Won't your insurance cover this? This sound like exactly the kind of bad luck insurance is meant for.

I almost forgot about that. I've never had to claim anything on the insurance before. I'll check that tomorrow.

 

[OverVolt]

I almost forgot about that. I've never had to claim anything on the insurance before. I'll check that tomorrow.

NEVER.

Insurance always wins. They'll just raise your rates later

 

[Gypsy]

I feel you i was in the bathroom and the freaking light bulb exploded im glad it didnt get me someone needs to check these bulbs before selling

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I feel you i was in the bathroom and the freaking light bulb exploded im glad it didnt get me someone needs to check these bulbs before selling

Bad necro.

 

[brianmanahan]

bring back bbzzdd!

 

[JimKiler]

I don't know GE bulbs, CFL, LED, or incandescent?

 

[Red Squirrel]

bring back bbzzdd!

That reminds me I should really do something with bbzzdd.net. I was suppose to make it an image hosting site and never ended up doing it. I want to get .com but some spammer keeps registering it. Don't actually go to it, it tries to load something in your machine.

 

[Gypsy]

I feel you i was in the bathroom and the freaking light bulb exploded im glad it didnt get me someone needs to check these bulbs before selling

 

[Gunbuster]

Were they doing halogen disguised as a regular incandescent shell back in 2012?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow I wonder if these are air filled (since there would be no need to vacuum it out as the halogen itself would be it's own bulb inside) so the heat causes it to expand and explode. Seems like a bad design.