How to open these to replace bulb?

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1. You can’t. You have to move to a new house now.

2. Try turning it?

3. Hammers always work.

4. Can’t help but will offer an anecdote of me just seeing this thinking it was a breast implant you wanted to replace on your own, got worried for a bit. Someone surely can help you with the bulb here!

5. I would imagine rotating it? You can try carefully without forcing it too much

6. 1. Check if there are something on the edges to open
   2. Try twisting it
   3. Try pulling it
   4. Order someone to do it for you

7. Most likely, rotating it counterclockwise should work.

8. I have a coupld of similar looking lamps in my apartment, Ensto AVR254. You open that by cramming a flathead screwdriver between the front and read halves and then twisting it to pry the halves apart. There are notches on opposing halves of the lamp to make it a bit easier to do.

   Another thing you can try is pushing up and rotating it, to see if the cover twists to unlock.

9. Try twisting it.

10. grab the house by the foundations, lift it untill you can fit in a flathead screwdriver, use the screwdriver to pry the gap larger. put a plastic ledge in the gap to hold the gap open. now you can run along all 4 edges of the house with the screwdriver to get it properly unstuck, grab the house with at least 3 other people from each edge and slowly but carefully rotate counter clockwise untill the lamp comes loose.

11. Looks like something you can twist.
    If that doesn’t work, it might have internal clips that would require pulling. Hope you can manage.

12. Turn/pull/twist/bend, and all at same time. Then notice theres no bulb, and maintenance need to replace whole thing

13. Did you try first, at least?

14. Sometimes there’s 3 screws that you need to loosen one of them. Then after you have dropped it on the floor, go get a new one.

15. I killed my own with the fire

16. Ask maintenance if you don`t know what to do. Some light fixtures may have special bulbs that cannot be found easily. (Know this from experience). If you live in an apartment building, contact huoltoyhtiö. I am sure they are very used to residents not knowing how to change bulbs. No shame in that. Some of us are a bit clueless. 

17. sometimes its turning. sometimes it pushing it to one side so it slides off a latch.

18. Those narrow handlers brake very easily if you twist them. But you can’t remove glass if you don’t do that. So be careful. I broke mine.

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