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Homeowners need to take care of their electrical systems. In Florida, the humidity, salt air, severe storms, and hurricanes make it even more essential. Regular maintenance helps prevent safety hazards, costly repairs, and complete system failures. When you understand the electrical services available, you can make informed decisions about what’s best for your home. Several options can improve safety and keep your electrical system running properly, even during hurricane season.
Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Detector Installation
Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors can save lives. These devices are necessary year-round, but they’re particularly important during hurricane season. Several scenarios, such as a storm-damaged gas furnace or improper use of a portable generator, could trigger the alarms.
While smoke is usually easy to detect, carbon monoxide (CO) isn’t. It’s odorless, tasteless, and colorless. Common symptoms of CO poisoning include dizziness, severe headaches, and nausea.
It’s ideal to have professionals install the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. This ensures proper placement for ultimate safety while reducing the risk of false alarms.
Attic Fan Installation
Attic fans improve ventilation by removing hot, humid air from your attic. This is vital even if you only use the space for storage. By pushing out hot air, the fans circulate fresh air, which keeps the space cooler. Your attic must also have proper intake vents.
Built-up hot and humid air causes numerous problems. For example, it can damage your roofing material, promote mold growth, and overwork your HVAC system. Removing this air creates more comfortable and consistent temperatures throughout your home. It also helps extend the lifespan of your HVAC system and roof. After a professional attic fan installation, you may also notice a reduction in your utility bills.
Electrical Inspections
Many homeowners wait until problems arise to schedule an electrical inspection. However, doing it before you need to can help save you money.
An electrical inspection allows our team to notice and address minor issues before they become severe. Serious problems typically cost more to fix, especially if they require replacements. Repairing issues early may also reduce your utility bills.
Additionally, electrical inspections might reduce the cost of your homeowner’s insurance. This proactive approach indicates to insurers that your home is safe and well-maintained.
It’s best to schedule professional electrical inspections every few years. However, you can certainly schedule them more often, especially if you live in an older home.
Whole-Home Surge Protection
Whole-home surge protectors are a smart investment, no matter where you live. They protect plugged-in electronics, such as laptops and refrigerators, from the damaging effects of power surges. This added protection helps extend their lifespan and prevents costly replacements due to damage. Whole-home surge protectors also safeguard your electrical system from voltage spikes and reduce the risk of fires.
GFCI and AFCI Outlet Installation
Ground fault circuit interrupters (GFCI) and arc fault circuit interrupters (AFCI) help protect you and prevent severe damage to your home.
GFCI outlets usually go in high-moisture areas, such as bathrooms, kitchens, and basements. When they detect a ground fault, they immediately shut off power to the outlet to prevent electrical shocks and fires. You usually need to press the outlet’s reset button manually to restore power.
AFCI outlets automatically shut off when they detect arc faults, which helps prevent fires. You’ll typically find them in main areas of a home, such as living rooms, hallways, and bedrooms.
Both types of outlets have an average lifespan of 15 to 25 years. However, that’s not guaranteed, and their performance can degrade as they age. Installing or replacing them can make your home safer.
Smart Electrical Panel Upgrade
A smart electrical panel makes monitoring your electrical system simple. It tracks your electrical usage and can even send you notifications if it detects abnormalities like overloads or arc faults. However, its biggest perk is remote monitoring. You can monitor your system even if you’re on vacation in another state. This gives you more control over your utility bills and lets you take prompt action if there’s a system issue.
If you don’t want or need to replace your entire existing panel, we may be able to install a sub-panel. It works with your current panel in order to avoid a complete replacement.
Whole-Home Generator Installation
Whole-home generators keep your appliances and other electronic devices running during a power outage. For example, they keep HVAC units, refrigerators, healthcare equipment, stairlifts, televisions, and other essential items working properly.
They’re especially important in Florida during hurricane season. Unlike portable generators, they turn on automatically once they detect a power outage. Additionally, since these devices sit outside and away from your home, there’s no risk of carbon monoxide leaks. When power returns, your system switches automatically from generator power back to the local system.
When you maintain them properly, whole-house generators can increase your property value. We recommend annual maintenance to make sure yours works properly.
Strategic Pathway and Step Lighting
If you love spending time outdoors at your Florida home, we can install pathway and step lighting to illuminate the way to your favorite areas. For example, we can install lighting on steps leading down to a lower level of your yard or from a porch to your yard. Standard lighting may create shadows, whereas step lighting brightens each step, making it safer to go up and down. This is particularly helpful for pet owners who take their dogs out at night.
Pathway lighting increases visibility to areas like patios and gazebos, helping you avoid tripping hazards. Our skilled team can also light walkways from your parking spot right to your door. For instance, we can install lighting from your driveway to the front door or from the garage to the back door. This makes it easier to see where you walk, especially after bad weather when there might be debris in your path.
Outdoor lighting does more than improve safety. Our strategic lighting placement can also showcase garden features you love, such as a favorite tree or your prized flowers.
Whole-Home Rewiring
Electrical wiring usually has a lifespan of 30 years or more. However, Florida’s humidity and salty air could speed up wear and corrosion. Old and deteriorating wiring sets your home up for numerous problems, including fires and electrical shocks.
Whole-home rewiring offers many benefits, including improved safety and updated code compliance. A new system also handles modern electrical usage more effectively. This is especially important if you want a system that can safely and efficiently support everything from EV chargers to in-ground swimming pools.
The project is a smart investment if you plan to sell your home in the future. Many potential buyers are willing to pay more for this major upgrade.
Schedule Electrical Upgrades Before Storm Season
Take steps today to improve your electrical system. Top Flight Electric in Winter Haven and Lakeland offers whole-house rewiring, electrical panel upgrades, and other electrical services to enhance your home. Schedule an appointment today!
