Your Light A Splode

You know, Vibia should really market their whole exploding light shtick as a feature. Last week the second of our Vibia Nobel pendant lights in the kitchen literally exploded, this time much worse than the first one. Why was it worse? Well, because when it exploded the glass casing was actually on the light so not only did the entire wire catch on fire, but the glass shattered so loudly that it sounded like a gun went off and shards flew everywhere. Miraculously nothing and no one was hurt, but we had to make yet another call to Vibia to explain what happened. Funnily enough, I checked out the receipt and the light exploded one year plus one week after we bought it. Cursed warranty! But again, Vibia took it back with no questions and within a few days we had a brand new light, with vastly superior design, ready to install. I'm shocked these didn't burn down our house. They must be getting lots of complaints about their initial faulty design to replace these with so few questions asked…um, recall perhaps?

Fun with broken glass!

I like my wires burnt to a crisp…

Comments

[modernemama]

Hmm, not sure I'd be brave enough to put another one up, even a re-designed version.

[dana]

You're probably right, we are insane. But I do like those lights, so we'll give them one more (fourth) chance

[Tijmen Stam / IIVQ]

If I count correctly, you have 4 of these lights: 1 which was fixed with some new insulation, one which blew up a few months ago and was replaced, then this one (replaced too). Is the last one replaced too or are you going to wait until someone gets glass shards in their eye?

Tijmen

[dana]

actually this is our third, we have two over our kitchen island, one broke shortly after arriving but Eric re-wired it and it worked for about 10 months. This was the one that was just replaced. The other one also exploded and was replaced last summer. The new design on both seems much more solid so I don't expect to have any more issue. But it we do, it would be par for the course, given the bad luck we have had. I still love the way they look though...

We have another one from the same line over the dining room table but it is much bigger and is not mini-halogen so it doesn't have the same wiring issues. Maybe that is what you are thinking of.

[Tijmen Stam / IIVQ]

Ahh, all clear now.