It’s spooky season! That means that ghouls and ghosts are upon us. Or perhaps just your friendly neighborhood kids dressed as ghouls, ghosts, and the trendiest movie villain of the season. With all that said, you’re probably ready for the scary movies and haunted house decorations to come.
One thing that shouldn’t be haunting your house is your lighting. While flickering lights can add some scary ambiance to a haunted party, they can actually be quite dangerous and obnoxious when you’re just trying to live your life. It might be time to make some improvements to your house that make things less scary, and more comfortable.
Today, we’re going to talk about why problematic lights need to be fixed in your home, and when you might want to call our team. We’re local electricians in Fredericksburg, TX and we know how to target the problem with a home electrical system and get your lights back in working order.
Sometimes the lines are blurred between just a circuit hiccup and a devious problem with your home electrical grid. It can be almost impossible to tell the difference without a few clues and some information under your belt. Sure, if you feel comfortable resetting the circuits and enjoying the rest of your day, then by all means do that. But if you’re curious as to why your circuits tripped in the first place, or if you’re dealing with multiple tripped circuits, then you’re better off calling our team for 
Being a homeowner can be a rough deal. You’ve got so many things to think about, from mortgage payments, to family vacations, to scheduling an air conditioner repair. It’s easy to fall behind on the things that matter without a rigorous calendar or some kind of reminder system. When homeowners are overwhelmed, their electrical systems can easily fall by the wayside to the point where constantly tripping breakers and dysfunctional outlets just seem kind of normal.
We’ve seen this scene in countless horror movies. It’s a rainy spring night, you’re snuggled up under a blanket to watch a movie, and all of a sudden the lights and electrical devices in the living room go out. Someone’s going to have to draw the short straw and head down to the basement to see what went wrong. If you’re lucky, this is just a one-time event or an anomaly that probably won’t happen again. However, we’re obviously not just talking to lucky customers here.
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.
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.
