Fall is the air and that time of year has come when homeowners begin to wonder how others view the landscape that surrounds the front of their homes, and their home’s entrances. Over the course of a few short weeks, and even into the holidays, your home’s entrance is likely to be visited more often during the fall and winter months than any other time of the year. This includes the annual celebration of Halloween by children trick-or-treating and the multitude of family and friends that will frequent the path to your front door during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. As a homeowner, you want to ensure your front entrance, garage and the area surrounding it is well-lit for the safety of those coming to you home. Properly lighting the front of your home also adds a huge amount of curb appeal. Along with adding components such as path lighting, architectural lighting and landscape lighting to help illuminate your home’s entrance. Airhart Electric is here to provide you with all of these services. Please give us a call today and have your home well lit for the upcoming holiday season!!
LED Under Cabinet Lighting
LED under cabinet lighting is quickly becoming the lighting of choice for home and business owners. This lighting provides illumination to those hard-to-reach locations in your kitchen, bath, office or storage area. LED lighting is also eco, energy-efficient so that you save money in the long run on your electricity bill.
It is also a great way to add accent and ambiance and to show off things like attractive counter splashes in kitchens or books on a shelf. When this type of lighting is used, it adds a gentle light to counter tops at night and provides good quality lighting when preparing food, writing, or reading.
LED lights are much more energy efficient than incandescent or florescent bulbs. In fact, LED lighting can save you about 80% of the electricity used by standard bulbs and up to half of the electricity used by fluorescent lights. These lights do not burn out or flicker – they just fade. The best place to use LED cabinet lighting is where lights are on for extended periods of time such as in kitchens or offices.
Since LED lights use far less energy than standard light bulbs, they last much longer. Well-made LED under cabinet lighting can last you more than ten years. Making its life expectancy much longer than that of incandescent or florescent fixtures.
During the months of August/September Airhart Electric is offering $75.00 off any installation of LED Under Cabinet Lighting. Call us today to schedule your appointment!!
Don’t be powerless after a storm!!!!
With summer upon us this only means Hurricane Season is here to. We as a society depend on power more than ever. A power outage becomes more of an inconvenience and can cost families thousands of dollars. Loss of power from a storm can send families to hotels. Flood basements when sump pumps have no power. And leave your family with a sense of no security and way of life. Take a moment and imagine your home without power.
- – No heating or air conditioning
- – Sump pump does not work
- – No internet or cell phone chargers to stay in contact
- – Extra costs for hotel & eating out
- – Spoiled food in the refrigerator / freezer
- – Loss of TV, video games, and other entertainment
- – Lack of lighting
- – No use of garage door openers. Lost time and revenue for your home business
Before one of the next big storms hit be prepared and have a generator installed in your home.
Home Electrical Fire Prevention
Did you know that electrical fires claim the lives of over 280 Americans a year and cause injury
to a 1,000 or more people?? Many of these fires are caused by electrical system failures, but even more are caused by incorrectly
installed wiring and overloaded circuits and extension cords.
Home electrical fires during a typical year account for 26,100 fires and $ 1 billion in property loss. About half of those residential
electrical fires involve electrical wiring.
The most dangerous months for electrical fires are December/January . Fire deaths are at there highest in the winter months because
of more indoor activities and the increase in lighting, heating and appliance use. The bedroom is the most common area for most residential electrical fires. However if the electrical fire begins in the living room/family room/den those areas result in the most deaths.
Most causes of electrical fires result in problems with “fixed wiring” such as old wiring and faulty outlets. Electrical cords ( extension or appliance cords), plugs, receptacles, and switches can also be the cause to many home electrical fires. Light fixtures and lamp/light bulbs are also a leading cause of electrical fires. Misuse of electrical cords are the cause to many fires, overloading circuits, poor maintenance, and running the cords under rugs or in high traffic areas that increase the risk of a fire hazard.
There are many Safety Precautions that may be taken to decrease the risk of an electrical fire.
– Check your electrical appliances and wiring. Replace worn, damaged or old appliance cords. Do not try to fix them.
– Major and small appliances should be directly plugged into a wall outlet. Never use an extension cord. Unplug small appliances
when not in use.
– If an appliance has a three-prong plug, use it only in a three slot, grounded outlet.
– Use only surge protectors or power strips that have internal overload protection.
– Surge protectors also protect your home from powerful lightening storms.
– Keep clothes, curtains and other items that can catch fire at least three feet from all portable electric space heaters.
– Use light bulbs that match the recommended wattage on the lamp or fixture.
– Extension cords are for temporary use only.
– Electrical work should be done by a qualified electrician. Call an electrician if you have any of the following:
– Recurring problems with blowing fuses or tripping circuit breakers.
– A tingling feeling when you touch an appliance
– Discolored or warm wall outlets or switches.
– A burning smell or rubbery odor coming from an appliance.
– Flickering lights.
– Sparks from a wall outlet.
Surge Protectors
Surge Protectors are designed to protect electrical devices such as computers, televisions, ect.
from high voltage spikes. By installing surge protectors in your home/office this can attempt to limit the
voltage supplied to the electrical device by blocking or shorting to ground any unwanted voltages above a safe threshold.
To learn more about how to protect your home/office visit our line of Eaton products and their benefits to you as a
home/business owner.http://myhome.eaton.com