Fall Home Upgrades for Cost-Conscious Homeowners
Fall in Florida is not really what you would experience elsewhere in the country. We are lucky that we have beach weather pretty much year round, and we are definitely not pining for fall leaves down here! However, with hurricane season coming to an end, the calmer, slightly cooler days of a Floridian fall are also the perfect time to do some timely and cost saving home maintenance, and here are our top recommendations if you’re looking to do some home upgrades: Give your kitchen a facelift. Paint or stain cabinets a new color and add new...
read moreHow Advanced Lighting Controls are Changing the Face of Commercial Lighting
You’ve heard of smart buildings and building management systems, but you might not have heard specifically of advanced lighting controls, or about how new technologies are making it possible to automate lighting and create more energy efficient spaces. That is exactly what many companies are doing in commercial buildings, and as an electrical contractor in South Florida, we are excited to see how these commercial lighting advances can benefit our commercial and residential electrical customers. How Advanced Lighting Controls Work Lighting...
read moreHow to Run New Wires Through Your Home’s Old Walls
If you’re buying an older house, or your family has grown since you bought your existing home, remodeling and renovation are probably on your mind. Bathroom and kitchen remodeling are the most popular renovation jobs in the country, but you’ll have to think about residential wiring no matter what room you want to work on. Electrical remodeling can be as simple as adding an outlet or as complex as creating an entirely new circuit for part of a room. While elaborate jobs should always be left up to professional electricians, you can...
read more6 Types of Power System Protection
Florida’s power systems are taxed more than most states because of the extraordinary amount of lightning that strikes the state each year. You don’t need bad weather to experience power fluctuations, though. Voltage can ebb and spike for multiple reasons, causing anything from mild annoyance to life-endangering problems. The aim of the electrical protection plan is to isolate and fix the problem while keeping as much of the system running as usual. Different problems call for different solutions, but they all work together to keep...
read moreThe Role Electrical Maintenance Plays in Home Safety
For busy people, having an electrical maintenance contract can be a great time saver. No more worrying about finding spare time to do all the maintenance around the house. No more wondering if you’ve done everything you’re supposed to. But that’s not the only reason to sign up for maintenance agreements. Having regular electrical maintenance appointments can be a key factor in your home safety in multiple ways. Fire Hazards One of the leading causes of home fires is problems with electrical wiring. The heat from electrical...
read moreWhy Energy Conservation Efforts Aren’t Working
In the 70’s it was called ecology. Today it’s the green movement. Whatever you call it, energy conservation has the lofty goal of making the earth a better place to live by using less energy. Energy conservation has been the watchword for decades, and yet we’re still wasting money and using more power than ever before. Since cutting back and using alternate sources of power can result in large energy savings, why aren’t more people doing everything they can to reduce their energy usage? It’s all about the...
read moreNew Construction: Wiring a Smart Home for the Future
Ideally, new homes are built for the future as well as for today. If you’re building a new home, you’re probably planning on staying there for years, if not decades. We’ve gone through a massive surge in electrical and data improvements in the last decade. The next ten to twenty years promise to show us even more. It’s harder to play catch-up if you don’t have the base materials installed. We have no way of knowing exactly what appliances we’ll be using in twenty years, so the smartest move is to include...
read moreChoose a Generator Using Our Buying Guide
Florida residents are almost too familiar with blackouts and power outages. Between the excessive amount of lightning that strikes, tropical storms, hurricanes, and aging infrastructure, a power outage is to be expected on just about any day. The question isn’t when, it’s for how long. Outages of minutes or an hour or two are just annoying and inconvenient. It’s when the power outage lasts 12 hours or more that it begins to affect your quality of life. You’ll sorely miss your air conditioning during most of the year,...
read moreHow Dedicated Circuits Help to Reduce the Risk of Electrical Fires
All the electricity comes into your home or business in one large stream that goes into the circuit breaker box or fuse box, where it’s divided into separate circuits, each of which controls the power to a certain number of appliances or outlets in a room. This division of power into separate streams or sections limits the damage that can happen if one circuit overloads. Why Electrical Overloads are Dangerous Each circuit breaker, fuse, and wire are rated to conduct a certain amount of electricity safely. If you exceed the demand on the...
read more5 Causes of Damage to Landscape Lighting
Your landscape lighting adds value to your home or business, so keeping it functioning is an important part of your regular building maintenance. Electrical maintenance can be as simple as visually inspecting the property each week to make sure everything is working, or as thorough as hiring an electrical contractor to to regular maintenance tasks. There is no single cause for landscape lighting failure; the causes are varied, with some preventable and some out of your hands. Timer Issues While the timer itself isn’t part of the...
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