This is an issue we run into all the time. With the rise of the internet as a resource for people to perform DIY improvements on their homes, more and more people have started purchasing over the counter electrical components to try fixing things themselves. After all, learning something new can be fun, and it can be an interesting journey coming to understand how your electrical system works and how you can fix it. Well, it can also be an expensive journey that can break your heart and leave you stressed out as well.
Many homeowners who are approaching DIY work should just cut their losses and call an electrician. Boerne is full of old homes with electrical systems that are out of date and sometimes dangerous. Buying over-the-counter parts and trying to attempt a fix yourself could result in one of many problems we’re about to mention.
Indoor lights are so much more important than many homeowners give them credit for. If you spend time around a set of lights for the majority of your day, it’s vital that those lights operate as they should. The moment you start trying to read in the dark because your house lights keep malfunctioning, flickering, burning out, or succumbing to another problem, you need professional help.
Your home’s electrical system is vital to your HVAC technology as well as every other piece of equipment you have. From dishwashers, to laundry machines, to refrigerators and everything else that plugs into your circuit board, we’re all seriously dependant on our electrical system. The most important thing we need to get across is that making an electrical upgrade to handle your appliances, new home renovation, or anything else that you’re working on, is never a job for an amateur.
For many reasons, homeowners think they can perform more DIY solutions to their electrical systems than to their plumbing or HVAC systems. While we might not understand all of those reasons, we’re nonetheless concerned about this trend. Not only are some electrical problems more complicated and require more training than others, but they can also be much more dangerous when working on them improperly.
There are many types of generators on the market today. From whole house generators, to portable generators, to commercial sized generators that can run entire businesses or buildings, there amount of information to take in as a homeowner can be overwhelming, to say the least. That being said, generators are an important system that can save you an incredible amount of hassle and even save your life if you depend on electrically-powered medical equipment.
Circuit Breakers—every house has them and not enough homeowners know how to deal with them. Circuit breakers are like the weather, they’re everywhere and anyone who doesn’t know how to deal with them is in for a few bad days in the lifetime of their home. That’s why we’re going to go over a few reasons why circuit breakers trip and blow, and what you can do to help prevent these problems.
We often get concerned homeowners asking us about the differences between GFCI outlets and your average, everyday outlet. Actually, these are great questions to ask, since there’s a huge difference that many people outside of the industry don’t know. So, in case you’re one of those people, we’ve written this blog post in hopes that you can find some of the answers you’re looking for!
Power surges are one of those things that only comes to mind when you’re affected by them. You know the phrase “lightning never strikes twice?” That phrase exists because nobody is ever expecting to be struck by lightning more than once, from just how rare an event it is.
When summer rolls around, especially here in Texas, you will likely find that your home is incredibly hot. Certain spaces of your home can be quite vulnerable to the heat, making them heat up much faster than the rest of your home. Your attic is one of these spaces. Your attic can reach staggeringly high temperature when the sun bears down on your roof, and this inevitably has an effect on the ability of your AC to cool your home. A great way to combat this is by installing an attic fan in your home.
We get it—we do not really give our electrical system all that much attention. Electricity is a very, very normal part of our everyday lives, and it gets easier and easier to overlook anything’s importance the more accustomed we become to its benefits. Just because your electrical system is functional, however, does not mean that is optimal. That is why we are happy to offer a number of different electrical services that can help you to upgrade your existing system.
