Hampton Bay Patio Furniture Reviews

My wife and I bought a patio set 4 high top swivel chairs and a fir pit table,all the chairs are falling apart and won't even sit up straight,the fire pit barely lite,hampton bay products seem to be all junk and never again will i buy any of there products.

I called the Home Depot Store where we bought it and I am awaiting a response. I am not hopeful that they will do anything about it as others have said they got no help form HD. The company should do something before someone gets seriously injured. The pieces were so tiny it took an hour and a half to clean it all up with a shop vac.

Now, getting to our third year, the whole side of the table has fallen off in huge pieces and most of the clear finish on the top of the table is chipped off. This table is junk. The umbrella that we purchased with this set wouldn't stay up beginning in the second year we owned it, so we used a clamp to hold it up and lastly, the umbrella pole broke in half at the end of last summer.

I came home to find the glass from my Hampton Bay patio table had shattered in hundreds of tiny little pieces all over my deck.

We also purchased a patio set with a glass table top and the top shattered into a million pieces after only 2 months! I do not recall what the name of the set was, but I don't see any way to fix it so that the table is useable again except to replace the glass and that was quite expensive. I think we paid $750 for the set last year. It doesn't look like they sell the set anymore either. Very upsetting. I have 4 kids that want to eat on the deck and I have nowhere except the floor for them to eat right now.

We purchased a really nice patio set from Home Depot last Summer. And yes, it HAD a glass table top insert - for which I see by many other complaints this is a LARGE issue that I am just becoming aware. In our case the wind did happen to surprise us and we assumed (since we were in the house at the time) that the umbrella had popped it just so. As like has been described over and over by other consumers, this glass shattered in minute pieces all over the place.

I purchased a 7 piece patio set called Lasserre by Hampton Bay at Home Depot a little less than two years ago. Recently my husband and I were having a barbeque on a calm, sunny day and had gone into the house to eat our meal when we heard a loud crash. We went out to our back patio to find that the top to our smoked-glass patio table had shattered into thousands of pieces all over our patio. There was no apparent cause for this - it was totally unexplainable. I was going to call the manufacturer listed in my owner's manual, but the warranty specified that it did NOT cover glass so I was looking on the internet to find replacement parts for the table when I discovered that numerous other people had experienced the same situation with the exact same brand of patio furniture. I only wish now that I had the forethought to take pictures of the situation before we cleaned up the mess.

Glass Top of Patio Table shattered 3 months after I bought it.

Well the first problem I had with my hampton bay patio set was the smokey brown glass from a $1200 set just shatter into a million pieces..The manufacturer refused to replace it and home depot wanted me to bring in this glass that had shattered into tiny pieces that I already cleaned up and thrown away in order to replace it..

I am reading everyone's comments about their experience with the Hampton Bay outdoor table, and I have had a similar experience. Unfortunately I have no idea what happened. It wasn't raining, or windy outside when I heard a 'crash' in my backyard. I went outside to find my 2 year old glass table top shattered into a million pieces. No one was in my yard, the table had not been moved, and the umbrella base was tightened (I only knwo this b/c I needed somone to untighten it to remove the fallen umbrella) I contacted Home Depot and got the run around, they told me to call Hampton Bay. Same company I thought, but ok...I will take their suggestion. I called Hampton Bay to get a replacement top, no luck. I was even willing to pay for it myself. NOthing.

We purchased a set of rocking chairs and table 2 years ago. Last yeat the base on one of the rockers broke. I have been trying to get a replacement base for the chair.

I bought a patio set 13 months ago at Home Depot, a Hampton Bay Stone topped table. The stone is falling out if the top, holes in it, all finish coming off. Called Home Depot and advised to deal with Mfg. Set costs over $800 and will have to replace the table. The chairs have not broken yet as so many complaints on but does make me worry about continued use of them also. Thanks

we received a hampton bay patio set with 6 chairs 2 of the chairs were on swivels and broke off in a short period of time we returned to Home Depot and were told that we had to contact the Manufacturer for part in doing so they sent the wrong ones and weren't able to put it together that this was not what broke we ended up having them welded and it still did not hold we endup throwing out before someone was injured

Hampton Bay patio set we purchased 18 months ago form Home Depot. Both swuvel captions chairs have broken at from the base.

We purchased an 8 piece patio set from Hampton Bay through Home Depot in the summer of 2006. Today I was sitting out back having lunch there and went into the house with my dishes. Moments later I heard a huge crash, and a million little pieces of shattered glass are strewn across my patio. No weather, no wind, no harsh conditions.

I found this website while searching for a company that makes replacement glass tops for patio furniture. I was even more shocked to see another person naming the same type of furniture I have and the same loud shattering that occurred with my brown smoked glass table top. One minute it was fine the next I heard a weird noise of something shattering. I ran to my back door to see the top of my table in a zillion pieces.

I purchased a Lasserre Bar Table set that came with a smoked glass high top table you can open to make a bar with 4 high top chairs. I maybe had the set for a year & like others heard a loud boom. My boyfriend & I looked at each other and ran out back & 1/2 of the top pane of glass was shattered into a million pieces on the deck. Nothing touched it, no inclemental weather at all. I couldn't believe it.

Hampton Bay Lighting fixtures are sold exclusively at Home Depot and you can not get anyone there to help you in ordering replacement parts. They refer you directly to Hampton Bay and there is not a single phone number or e-mail address that you can contact to order parts. I just spent 40 minutes getting bounced around Home Depot dep'ts to be told they can't help me. VERY FRUSTRATING

Glass top shattered into thousands of pieces. Company want replace even though I have only had the table for 8 month.

My husband and I purchased a Hampton Bay outdoor covered 3-person swing in the Summer of 2007. The seat cushion was torn apart by squirrels in the Fall of 2007. In the Spring of 2008, we attempted to purchase a replacement, but were told that they have replacement cushions, but they can only be used as replacements for warranty issues. They do not sell the replacement cushions, nor can I find them anywhere on the internet.

I purchased an 8 piece Hampton Bay pation set for $699.00 from Home Depot in June of 2007. In November of 2007 I heard a loud boom on my patio. I ran to see what happened to see the glass of the table shattered to a thousand pieces. I was not sure what caused the glass to shatter.

There needs to be a recall on this products and fast but I guess it will not happen until someone's baby (God forbid) gets hurt.

It was a terrible mess. I now have a pricey, topless patio table. Fortunately no one was injured.

We purchased a 5 piece patio set in Sept.'05 and we have kept it covered during the winter months. The first year we noticed that paint was peeling off of one of the chairs arm. This year that same chair arm split, leaving a two inch, very sharp edge. Home Depot offered no assistance in getting this resolved with the manufaturer. NO MORE HOME DEPOT!

We purchased a Hampton Bay patio set last year on Clearance (end of season) - it has a solid Tile top (not glass), the tiles are coming off in little pieces. So far we are gluing the pieces back together, but it doesn't look as good as it should. Not impressed with the quality of this product.

Purchased a Hampton Bay Gas Fire Pit at Home Depot less than a year ago. Called the customer service number today to order parts and the number does not work.

My Hamptom Bay Table Top smashed into a million pieces! My 2 year old son could have been injured as a result. Home Depot tells me there is no re-placement top to buy.

We already filed a complaint and we did receive the gift card we were promised. However it is only for $100 at Home Depot where they don't sell replacement glass tops for our Lasserre set that exploded! We're still out the money because $100 is way way less for what we paid for the set!

Like many others on this site we purchased a Hampton Bay Sydney 7 pce dining set I think in 2005 or 2006 from Home Depot. A few months after we purchased it we discovered that it had shattered all over our patio. I did try to find replacement glass but found it would cost more than we paid for the set to replace. Home Depot told us we could not order a replacement piece from them. The next spring I saw that they were selling the set again. I called a new Home Depot that opened and told them what happened. They told me to come pick up the glass top for free!!I was thrilled. We replaced it and a few months later it shattered again. It still sits in my backyard.

This is regarding our 7-piece Hampton Bay Sydney collection purchased 04/2006. We were on our front porch this afternoon (a bright, sunny, 70 degree afternoon with no wind) and heard something explode. It was our glass table top that we discovered in a billion pieces all over our back deck. Had my children been sitting there, as they were just yesterday, they could have been severely injured. I have just started my chain of complaints because now I am out $932.00, and I refuse to settle for anything except a replacement or a refund.

We purchased the Lasserre outdoor dining set in May 2005. We paid over $600.00 for the set which consists of 6 chairs, smoked glass table top, umbrella base and an umbrella. In the late evening of a beautiful September day in 2007 when only my son was home, he heard an explosive kind of noise. He went outside to discover that the glass top shattered into a million little pieces, leaving tiny glass shards in a ten foot radius on our patio, and depositing pieces into the crevices of our deck.

Purchased the 5 piece Davinci patio set from Home Depot. This $499 Hampton Bay looked great...until the finish started coming off onto your arm when one sat in the chairs. Chunks at a time stuck to one's skin. I called Hampton Bay customer service, and there's always a recording--no real person. The 5-year warranty is a joke and means nothing.

We purchased a Hampton Bay Mission Bay II Dining Table in 2006. We had a wind storm go through the area in 2007 and when we came home the table top (glass) was in a million pieces on our patio. We cleaned it up and assumed it was the storm that damaged the table. So I went online to Home Depot and they had a table that I could purchase to match the 8 chairs, umbrella, 2 side tables and the umbrella holder that we had purchased in 2006.

Beautiful day today. Sunny, high 60's. SMASH. My Hampton Bay patio set from Home Depot just exploded ALL over the grass and sandbox. Millions of pieces. Everywhere. How do you pick glass up out of the grass and the sandbox? I went on line to google this question and I was AMAZED to discover how many people had the same issue. There are five kids in this house. How can they EVER go outside to play on the lawn. This is a fiasco, and a huge monetary loss.

Initial problem was that we were sent the Hampton Bay patio furniture we ordered online from Home Depot in October of 2006, but two duplicate sets arrived with it. We refused the duplicates, but were never credited for the returns. After repeated contacts with Home Depot's customer support in Atlanta, the problem was supposed to be resolved and the returns credited to our MasterCard, but they never were. To add possible injury to insult, about four weeks ago, on an uncharacteristically warm and breezy Sunday in early Feb. 2008, I was sitting at my computer when I heard a loud crash. I looked out on our deck, and discovered the glass top of our patio table had shattered into a million small fragments. It looked as if someone had strewn crushed ice across the deck. While searching online for information about replacement tops, I discovered that this is a common problem with Martha Stewart and Hampton Bay patio furniture. Hence my report.

This is directed at Home Depot corporate. These idiots are now shipping most if not all of their Hampton Bay ceiling fans with light kits that accept only intermediate base bulbs. Guess what? You can't find CFL bulbs with intermediate bases. So I guess Home Depot isn't interested in conservation?

We purchased the 7 piece set from Home Depot last spring. A couple months later my husband was working downstairs and said we must have had a gust of wind come up for the table shattered in about a million little pieces. Its not that windy here....I searched the internet to try and find a replacement top, but came up short. A replacement top for me was about $450.00 because a glass shop would need to be shipped in from another city. I contacted Home Depot, and someone there said they would call back and never did.

I bought a 7 piece set of Hampton Bay patio furniture. A few days ago, the glass table top just shattered into thousands of pieces. I cannot think of any reason for it to break; it just did it on its own. It damaged my lawn and my patio. I called Home Depot, and they directed me to JRA, and nobody is picking up the phone there.

Upon returning from vacation, we found our 7pc smoked Hampton Bay glass top shattered all over the patio. Until finding this web-site I thought bad weather was the cause. I have two small children and a new puppy: it's only a matter of time until one of them steps on one of the many pieces I was unable to find. The pieces were small, numerous and everywhere....

We purchased a Hampton Bay, Sydney 7-piece outdoor dining set. The table had scratch-resistant tempered glass. To our surprise, the top shattered into a thousand pieces for no reason at all. I have tried to see what can be done and just get transferred or told to call numbers that don't offer help--or wait on hold until they disconnect me after 10 minutes. I have just spent 2 hours trying to find someone to assist me. I finally went on the consumer website and found out that these tables have been exploding all over the country, and no one gets any satisfaction, no refunds are offered, no replacements, nothing. We are told the company has gone out of business or our model has been discontinued. No one wants to take responsibility. The set is worthless without a table. My total loss is $757.54 ($499 for the 7 pc set, $159 umbrella, and $49.98 umbrella stand, plus tax). These tables should be recalled before someone is seriously injured.

I purchased a tile Hampton Bay Patio table w/ 4 swivel chairs on 7/4/2007 for $600+. The tiles on the table fall off every time it rains for more than a couple of hours. At this point I have a tile table with many missing tiles and all I can do is toss it.

My husband and I purchased a Hampton Bay patio set in the summer 2007. It came with a round glass top table and four chairs. This afternoon when I got home from work I found the glass top had shattered into tiny fragments all over my patio. After doing some research for replacement glass on-line, I discovered the numerous complaints people have made about the Hampton Bay products. I am just glad that no one was injured!

Tiny shards of glass... ended up everywhere. Some pieces still stuck in the crevices of the deck and I can't get them out. Cut fingers from picking up the glass and trying to get it out of the deck with a knife.

Home Depot wouldn't do anything. Replaced top with a lexan top.

Having a hard time finding a replacement top. Have been told that, if we find one, it will cost $250 - $350. No one was near the table when it exploded, so no one was hurt.

The table is a large oval glass top costing about 600.00. The glass shattered into many tiny pieces. We still are finding glass pieces We have pool. We are fortunate to not have bare feet come in contact with the glass

I bought my Hampton Bay 4-piece patio set on July 24, 2007. I don't sit on it very often, but today I was sitting on it and it just broke in half! I went flying to the ground and hit my head on the sliding glass door. The two pieces of the chair were jagged metal, and I was appalled at the thought that I could have fallen on the sharp metal! I took photos of it and plan to take it back to Home Depot tomorrow.

We got one of these Hampton Bay Outdoor Pation Sets ($600-$700) and the patio table glass (smoked) just exploded for no reason. We thought someone threw a brick at the house. Went out to the back patio and there's a thousand squares of smoked safety glass. Where am I going to get a piece of glass now? It looks like it will cost $300-$400 to replace.

The only economic loss was the table itself, which will cost $300 to replace the glass. Fortunately nobody, including our two-year old, was near the table or hurt since it occured in the middle of the night.

I have a brand new set but no table and the glass costs about 350-450 to replace.

I have the same problem as many other people on this site, but I have actually had TWO patio table tops explode. I recommend a big shop vac for cleanup. I have dogs and worry about them, moreover, I don't have a nice patio table to sit at anymore. :(

I purchased from Home Depot a glass table manufactured by Hampton Bay in the summer of 2005. We were on vacation when our neighbor heard the glass explode! They said it was so loud they could hear it inside their home. Unfortunately our dogs were in the backyard and a neighbors son was taking care of our pets. Our dogs had to walk through the glass and had small cuts on their paws.

I purchased a Hampton Bay 7-piece patio set which included 1 table, 2 swivel chairs and 4 standard chairs in December 2006. After 2 months one of the swivel chairs collapsed, throwing me to the ground. It broke the support tubing below the swival. I was sore for a few days but otherwise OK. The chairs have an attached label stating maximum wieght 300 pounds.

The one person near the table ended up at the doctors due to glass in her eye. We are lucky my grandparents, who had been at the table for several hours, had just left.

Our glass-top patio table has just exploded. There was NOBODY around at the time and we all were inside the house, so we would hear if anyone came around to our deck. We took pictures of the incident and can provide them if needed. Furniture was purchased at a local retailer about 5 years ago. The set has originally cost us $788 dollars, including NJ state tax.

Purchased Folin High Top Bar Table with four chairs, 3 lounges, umbrella , base for umbrella and two end tables Hampton Bay Folin Collection from Home Depot late March. This weekend, Table flipped over and glass top smashed into a gazzillion little pieces. The table flipped from a gust of wind--hard to believe but true. Thankfully, no one was by the pool deck and no one got hurt.

Upon enjoying a lovely dinner with friends, the Hampton Bay glass top exploded all over 4 adults and 1 baby. The baby freaked of course!! The glass shot at least 6 feet, and was in tiny pieces. The glass continued to crackle once on the floor. We had cuts on ourselves, and of course dinnerwear was also destroyed as well as the food itself. As you can imagine the meticulous clean-up was on the way -- including our bloody cuts. The table was located in the kitchen with the living room, and den on either side. those too had shards of glass.

glass shards everywhere in cushons on deck on patio in the grass. $700 total loss

I have a Hampton Bay patio set purchased at Home Depot. It had a glass tabletop. For no apparent reason it shattered into a million pieces.

We purchased a Hampton Bay Sydney 7 piece dining set from Home Depot. Friday night around 10p.m. we came home to find the glass of the set exploded into millions of pieces on our deck. The glass was still popping and snapping like ice does sometimes.

I purchased a Lasserre 7 piece patio set and only 4 months after the purchase the table glass shattered into a million pieces.

In the middle of the night, my husband and I heard a mini explosion on our backyard deck. To our surprise, we saw our Hampton Bay patio table with shattered glass all over the deck. We purchased the patio set a year ago and there was no reason why the glass on the table would break. Nothing dropped on the table to shatter the glass. Luckily our children weren't on the deck playing when it occurred - they usually play on the deck with their toys throughout the day. However, the glass did explode onto their toys (scooters, table, cars) and the rest of the deck.

I purchased a glass top Hampton Bay Lasserre Patio/Bar set and the glass top shattered into thousands of pieces for no reason at all. I have tried every option possible to get a replacement but no one is cooperating. I have been told to just buy a new table as having new glass cut is more money than replacing the whole set. I only owned the table for approx 6 months.

In 2005 I purchased a 4 piece Hampton Bay outdoor patio set (4 chairs, glass table & umbrella and stand). After taking the item home and setting it up about a week later the table exploded. Thousands of tiny pieces of glass were everywhere. There was nothing setting on the table at the time. Nothing to explain this. I contacted Home Depot and explained the situation. They gave me another table (same brand).

Our Hampton Bay Lasserre table, purchased last year at Home Depot - completely shattered yesterday! No one was near the table, thankfully, but we ran outside after we heard the crash and then watched as the shards continued to crackle and pop on the ground underneath the table! It sounded like popcorn - weird. I have been trying to come up with reasons for this all day, but could find no explanation until I logged on to the internet in search of a replacement table and saw the article and other accounts on the JRA company glass and learned of the class action.

Yesterday (April 23,2007) I was staining my deck in my backyard when my patio table exploded. Nothing fell on it. There were no cracks in it. We purchased the set thinking it would last for years. It was 3 years old. We now have 5 out of 6 chairs left. One swivel rocker broke apart not at the weld but the metal itself. The table is unusable without the glass. A new piece of glass will cost between $275.00 -$350.00. I would not ever want a glass table again.

We purchased an entire Patio Set at Home Depot specifically called the Lasserre Collection. One day the 72' x 4' glass table top shattered into tiny pieces all over the place. We are now left with 8 chairs, 2 side tables, an umbrella, and a table frame without the glass.

On April 17, 2007 I was doing laundry and I heard this loud BANG. I ran to my back door and my Hampton Bay patio set is there and its a rectangular glass top table 6 seater, the entire glass was shattered into a MILLION tiny pieces. Mine is not even a year old yet. Shattered glass all over my deck, glass caught in my feet.

Our Hampton Bay Glass top patio table shattered for no apparent reason yesterday. There was only one person outside by the table when it shattered and they were not hurt but everyone in the house heard it. We had purchased the patio set at Home Depot last year. Only one year old!!!!

On 3/10/07, the glass in my Hampton Bay patio table suddenly exploded into thousands of tiny pieces. The table sits outside on my deck, however it is sheltered as it closely surrounded on three sides by my house. It was a sunny day with no wind and the umbrella was up. I heard a light crackling noise with a couple of pops and then a loud shattering sound. All of the glass was shattered into tiny pieces. I can not find any reason for it to break. There was no wind. There was nothing resting on the glass. Nothing droppped onto or hit the glass. And the umbrella was up, which shelters the entire span of the table.

I have tried on twice to resolve an issue with my patio furniture. I need a replacement glass. On one occassion, after waiting on the phone for 25 minutes, I was told the computer was down and I would have to call back. Today, I waited 1 hour and 35 minutes on hold, never speaking to a human.

I purchased a Disney Princess lamp, made by Hampton Bay, which I purchased at home depot in 2003. On 1/30/07 the lamp caught fire it was plugged in but not turned on, it had a 40-watt bulb in it (which it required as the box said) well it started sparking and making popping sounds as it was in flames, my 7 year old daughter came running out of her room screaming Mommy my room is on fire!. My 7 year old shares a room with my 4 month old daughter which I grabbed her out of her crib, I put the fire out myself, and thank god my oldest stayed home that day due to not feeling well. If she had went to school I don't know how much of the room would have went up in flames with my 4 month old sleeping in the crib just 4-5 feet away from the lamp.

The day was sunny and bright. So I thought it would be nice to sit under the umbrella. So I started to put the umbrella up. The glass shattered. There were millions and millions of little pieces of little shards of glass. The glass cut the tops of my feet and I started bleeding. The flies were flying about and were wanting at the blood on my feet. I cleaned myself up and went on to cleaning the little crumbles of sharp glass.

Hampton Bay, Sydney Collection, glass top table shattered spontaneously.

Just this evening I was sitting in a Hampton Bay captain's chair, that came with the seven piece set with the glass topped table, when the chair broke under me. There had been no previous indication that there was a problem with the chair. The set was purchased in April of 2005, so it is not that old.

I purchased Hamton Bay Patio Furniture two weeks ago. We came home after being gone all day went out back to light grill for dinner and saw that the table top was in thousands of little shattered pieces. No real reason why it happened. I am glad we were not home. I am sure that someone would have gotten hurt.

On 06/09/05 I purchased from Home Depot a Hampton Bay 7- piece Sydney patio set. I now have no glass top on my table because the glass shattered in millions of pieces on my deck. I have contacted Home Depot to see if I could purchase another glass top for my table, but, to my disappointment they couldn't even refer me to another store/company that would be able to help me.

Bought a Hampton Bay 7piece set in April,06. Yesterday the glass top exploded and shattered all over the patio, Home Depot did not have a replacement but did offer to pick up the chairs and umbrella and credit our account. We will never buy Hampton Bay again. Thankfully our Golden Retrievier was not laying next to the table as usual.

I purchased a Hampton Bay 7 piece Sydney Dining Patio Set. Model No. 732-721. Purchased March 2006. The table has been set up since May 2006 on the patio. It's now July 2006 and came home to find the glass shattered in tiny pieces. Looked like a explosion hit the table.

The glass top to the Hampton Bay Lasserre Table exploded. I was looking outside when it happened. There was no one or anything at the table at the time. The glass was crackling in the sun for about 5 minutes, and finally crumbled into pea sized pieces of glass, with smaller chards.

We purchased a table and 6 chairs for our back yard last summer. The 1st of July, we were in the house when we heard a loud noise. Our glass top table had shattered into millions of pieces. Luckily, no one was near the table when it happened.

The glass top on my patio table purchased from Home Depot under the Hampton Bay brand name shattered in less than 1 year. I called HD and they sent me to JRA. JRA said the glass was not covered under warranty but offered to replace for free with a $120 shipping charge.

I called JRA customer service and talked to Ervin. I was able to give him the information off my receipt from Home Depot and he looked up the set I have. He then told me that model and any parts for it were no longer available. I expressed my concern about the tables glass exploding for no apparent reason. I ask if he had heard of this and he said no, they have had no problems like this.

I installed 10 Halogen Lamps under my kitchen cabinets that use Halogen Lamps #148 334 Clear, 20w 120v. I'm getting a very high failure rate on these lamps. I have followed all the replacement instruction and still I'm having to replace an average of two lamps a week. At $4.49 each this has become a costly upgrade. Do you have any information on a better quality lamp or any suggestions on improving the life of these lamps.

I have a Hampton Bay patio set that I purchased this summer. The glass top table shattered in thousands of little pieces. I am not sure why this happened. I just heard a loud sound of glass hitting the concrete. It has to be a defect in the glass, and I would like to find a contact number to reach someone from the company to get a replacement. This should have not happened even if it is left outside. This table sets under a covered porch.

I bought a Hampton Bay Desk Lamp (black finish) at a Home Depot in Eagan, MN. I recieved an electric shock when plugging the unit in! My other hand was just holding the metal support piece for the lamp itself. I was lucky that my other hand was still on the plug to pull it out ASAP! This device is very dangerous to me and hopefully no others have exerienced this situation. Deminsions of lamp: 5" W x 19"H Model: 120974 Distributed by: Home Depot

I purchased a Hampton Bay light fixture that was placed in our hallway about 3 yrs ago. I leave the hall light along with others if I need to for our animals or if I may come home after dark and I have done this for years. I was watching tv two nights ago and all of a sudden the light started to flicker and the hall light was making an awful noise when I got up and looked there was smoke billowing from the light fixture.