DOCA Light Bulb Changer for High Ceilings Attachment for Extension Pole, Heavy Duty Telescoping Pole for Changing Recessed Lights and Outdoor Flood Lights - Suction Cup

This is money well spent! The attachment feels like quality and has a bit of heftiness to it. I used it on a regular painters extension pole to reach 15 ft up to canned ceiling lights. It worked flawlessly. I changed out four can light bulbs with ease. Just be careful not to step on or trip on the release string as it is very long. if you do get snagged on the release string, you might pull the suction cup release and the bulb could fall from a tall height. Not enough concern to reduce the 5 star rating. Highly recommended! tip: if the base of the old bulb breaks in the socket, use some alien tape or duct tape on the end of the extension pole screw. Gently but firmly poke the tape into the socket and turn counterclockwise. You should be able to release and extract the old broken bulb base from the light socket. just be careful of any falling glass fragments. Wear safety glasses and make sure the light switch to the affected light fixture is off.

Product works as advertised! Replaced an outside bulb on a 2-story house without an issue. Easy to use and the suction cup is made of durable plastic that provides suction to the bulb face and once you install the bulb just pull the string and the cup releases. Highly recommend it to anyone that needs to replace a bulb and you don’t want to pull a ladder out or if you don’t have a long enough ladder.

First of all - BIG fan of the Docapole! I have several extension poles and the Docapole is clearly superior in it's strength/weight ratio and the quality of the extension locks. You may need to occasionally tighten the locks with a screw driver but easy-peasy. So I had a bunch of attachments but not the lightbulb changer. I've got a couple of recessed lights above my entryway that are about 18-20 feet up and after changing them once with a ladder I swore I'd not do that again. So I bought the lightbulb changer with a bit of skepticism. Yes, it had good reviews but still... Well it worked great! Got the old bulbs out with no problem even though they were a bit old and didn't unscrew too easily. Putting the replacement bulbs in was a little tricky in that I was using (LED) bulbs that had an indentation in the middle of the bulb-face (I suppose in order to disperse the light more effectively. Or something.) Anyway I had to be real careful to make sure the changer covered the whole indentation to form a seal. The only other issue was the grommet used for the wire loop to connect the suction release wire came off but I just cinched it back on with a pair of pliers. So here's a couple of things to be careful about: First of all, MAKE SURE THERE IS NO TENSION ON THE SUCTION RELEASE STRING AS YOU ARE RAISING THE EXTENSIONS. It's real easy to either grab the string or just let it wrap around the pole while you are raising the bulb up to the socket. Obviously if the string tightens it will pull down on the lip of the suction cup and you will lose the suction. So there is the light bulb just sitting on the cup getting higher and higher above your head and you don't have anyway to know that the bulb is now longer secure until you start trying to screw it into the socket. And yes, this happened to me. Fortunately I was looking up at the bulb and saw it topple off the suction cup and start falling end over end towards my head. It dropped about 12 feet before I made a one-handed catch and saved the bulb. Then I did a little dance and wished my sons had seen that their dad still has great hands. Second, I would recommend wiping down the new bulb with a moist towel (like they suggest doing with the old bulb) before you put it on the suction cup. Helps make a better seal. Also it wouldn't hurt to lightly spray the new lightbulb screw with WD40, especially if it's an old socket. Finally, and this is if it's a recessed can light - especially if it's a cheap, builder's grade can that doesn't have a sturdy adjustable socket mount - get as good a look as you can at the angle of the socket before you try and screw in the new bulb. If you just guess it's real easy to start cross-threading the bulb and if it snugs down too tight it can be a real pain trying to back the bulb out. Good luck!

Works perfectly! Changed 4 lights that were too high to reach without a tall ladder. It was so easy. Very happy with this purchase.

I am not exaggerating when I say that every now and then you come across a product that is an absolute game changer. Well, if you have bulbs in high places, the DocaPole is that product! For the first 15 years in our house I simply did not use the 4 can light flood bulbs in the 22 foot high ceiling. Two years ago we renovated and I converted all bulbs to LED including these 4, thinking that I would could use them and never worry about changing due to the purported long life of the LED bulb. I equipped the 4 fixtures with very high quality LED bulbs retailing at about $40 each. In the first year, one burned out. Up the ladder I went, perched precariously with a wobbly 12 foot pole above me equipped with the old “cage style” bulb changer (which, I find, is still a good match for bulb removal). I installed the new bulb and, to my chagrin, when I went to remove the pole, managed to pull the fixture right out of the can since the tension was so stiff. Thankfully, my contractor neighbor came over and we balanced in the hot attic 22 feet above the floor, standing on the trusses, and managed to retrieve the fixture up through the attic, reinstall it, shore it up, and put the bulb in. I do NOT suggest this as a way to change a light bulb. Fast forward to last week and the second pricey, million hour life span LED bulb burned out. Undaunted, I tried the same process as before, thinking that the first occurrence was due to a faulty fixture install when the house was built. A bit smarter this time, I tested before pulling hard to remove the pole and could tell the same problem was going to occur again...the fixture tension was not enough to overcome the pull of the pole. Plus, I am getting way too old to balance on a 10 foot ladder! Enter Amazon and the DocaPole. First, this pole is very good quality, having multiple sections to adjust for needed height, each with easy to use fasteners to hold the pole at the desired length. The included suction cup with release string is really the secret weapon here, allowing easy installation and release of the new bulb. I tested it first, wetting the suction cup and making sure my bulb surface was clean as per instruction, and could literally shake the pole hard without the bulb flying off. Here is the key, the suction cup releases with a very, very slight pull on the included string which hangs down the length of the pole. Don’t pull it at all accidentally while installing. I did not find that a problem and did the actual replacement job myself in about 10 minutes including setup and testing of the suction. Does the pole wobble a bit, yes. Is that a problem, no. I tested this first, deciding ahead of time the best direction from which to raise the pole to the fixture. I put some cushions down below the fixture just in case the bulb came off. Installation went without a hitch. Bulb in in a minute and I never climbed a ladder!! As an aside, my bulbs use a magnetic lens piece that sticks to the bulb surface and concentrates the light to a desired circumference. I installed the bulb alone first, then attached the plastic lens to the suction cup and raised it up until I heard it magnetize to the already installed bulb. One light tug on the release string and all done. I have no more worries about using the lights (even though the LED bulbs do fail sometimes!) thanks to the DocaPole. Oh yes, I also cleaned a few cobwebs out of a high corner with the duster attachment that was thoughtfully included!

I own a 90s house with needlessly soaring archways illuminated by one stupid lightbulb at a height that no amateur would dare attempt with a ladder. For this reason, no one had ever bothered to change the bulbs once they burned out, and our poor guests have been made to huddle in pitch darkness at the front door because I'm too cheap to rent a Genie or pay somebody to come over. As it turns out, it was simply apathy on my part that allowed this situation to persist; I thought that the meager 8 or 10 foot light bulb changing poles at Home Depot or Lowes were state of the art, but then through some slightly more assertive googling I learned of the DocaPole (I just kind of like to say it out loud- Do-ka-pole). Anyway I was somewhat nervous about the purchase- it would certainly pay for itself in one use if it worked and I didn't have to hire somebody with the requisite ladders to come over, but I feel like working with objects of this length there's just so much that could go wrong. What if I made a fool of myself? After some beers, I just ordered it. The massive pole arrived today in one of the big Amazon trucks with air brakes whose hiss signifies that you've bought something momentous, and indeed the driver and I had a sort of awkward exchange as we try to hand off a skinny 8 foot box through the front door. I was unable to wait and tore it open immediately, and was just as quickly alarmed at the size of the box containing the suction-cup light bulb attachment, which seemed too small. However, I was so pleased to discover that the kit included a feather duster (you can imagine the cobwebs on these stupid high ceilings) that I put my concerns aside. A few details about operating this thing. The suction cup holds bulbs pretty well, but I prefer to collapse the pole, stand it upright, put the bulb on the cup, and then extend the sections. Otherwise I'm swinging the bulb around at the end of a 20 foot long stick. To do this, you have to figure out how many sections need to be extended, and obviously the lower sections are more rigid than the thinner upper sections. So before you stick a bulb on the cup, you want to figure out which sections will need to be extended, because you have to do the upper ones first since you can't reach them if you do the lower ones first. I just do a practice run before I put the bulb on. Next, you don't need the string attached to the suction cup when you're taking a bulb down, but you will probably need it when you put the new bulb in. However, since you're twisting the pole to put the bulb in, the string will get wrapped around the pole and it can be pretty awkward to unwind it. So only unwind as much string as you need, and hold it against the pole as you turn so it doesn't wind up. Also if you have cats get them as far away as possible while you are dealing with the string. Ask me how I know. Finally, the instructions don't mention this, but I was changing a thick halogen bulb at a height of about 20 feet, and although I am not particularly safety-conscious, it did occur to me that I might incur brain damage if the bulb fell on me, so maybe if you have a bicycle helmet or something it might not be the worst idea you ever had to put it on. Anyway if you've read this far then hello fellow 90s house owner, yes it's a really good product, go find your bicycle helmet.

Works pretty good. Not perfect. It’s 2025 and they come up with anything better. Idk, maybe they need to make build that pop in and pop out rather then the screw.

I've spent a lot of time balanced on stools trying to get a purchase on the smooth surface of recessed flood lamps which burned out. Teasing them out of the socket with fingers slipping on the limited available surface was a bit dangerous, since I was reaching over my head while two feet off the ground. I attached this nifty device to the end of a paint extension rod I already had and stuck it to the old bulb while standing directly underneath the fixture. It came right out and the new bulb readily stuck to the suction cup and went right back into the fixture. Again, all with my feet firmly planted on the floor. Only two really small gripes. The little hook to attach the release string to the suction cup (to get it to release from the lamp after installation) was so small that most of the time I spent on this first lamp change was trying to attach the hook to the release loop on the cup. The second small gripe was that the extension rod I had used internal screw threads to lock the extensions together. Turning the rod to unscrew the old lamp loosened the locks and wouldn't turn the lamp. I solved this by releasing all the rods and then only working with the part actually attached to the suction cup. Once I did that, it was all really easy. If you have a very high ceiling fixture, that might need more drastic action, like using tape to secure the screw locks. Bottom line: it works , keeps you safely on the ground, and makes it easy to get a recessed lamp out and back into the fixture. Good value; seems to be good construction and design; attached easily.