A broken lightbulb is easy to remove, but you do need to know what you're doing. Here's how to do this task yourself safely.

Incandescent light bulbs are known to occasionally shatter in their fixtures—and when they do, it’s both difficult and dangerous to extract the bulb’s threaded base from the socket. Bits of broken ...

Have you ever struggled to remove a shattered lightbulb from its socket? BobVila.com has three methods of extracting a broken bulb. Before attempting any of these techniques, disconnect the power ...

Getting out a light bulb that’s broken off at the base doesn’t have to be a big production. A natural instinct is to use force, but that approach usually does more harm than good. That’s because the ...

Dear Readers: Here are some hints about removing a broken light bulb from a socket. Wearing garden gloves, use a (rubber) jar opener, slowly reach in and twist and jiggle back and forth to gently ...

August 30, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Sometimes, a vacuum just won't do when it comes to cleaning up tiny shards of glass. If you've got glass in a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Expert handyman Sean Buino tackles the myth, ...