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Tips on Reading Your Home Electric Meter
An electric meter has a series of numbers or spinning dials, but homeowners often aren’t sure how to read it. Measuring the energy consumed by your home, the meter is read monthly by service providers to determine the cost of your bill. Electric companies tend to round the numbers when calculating usage. However, you can check the meter [...]
How Outdated Appliances Can Affect Your Home
Outdated electrical panels, circuit breakers, and wiring can affect your home’s function, value, and safety. Outdated appliances pose a significant risk as well, especially when combined with an older electrical infrastructure. Simple electric repairs might not be enough; you may need to replace appliances as quickly as possible. Electrical issues are among the most common causes of house [...]
What Is A Smart Home?
The concept of the smart home has proliferated in today’s households. In a general sense, smart homes have a number of automated devices and systems, whether they’re built into the structure or added later. Some have artificial intelligence. There are also voice activated systems that constitute smart devices. Smart home systems can integrate televisions, appliances, computers, cameras, speakers, [...]
Why Is My Circuit Breaker Important?
The circuit breaker is one of the most important home safety devices. Typically, an electrical box contains a main breaker for your entire house and rows of branch circuit breakers, each connected to individual circuits. Each breaker works the same way. The difference is the main circuit breaker can handle a larger amperage; modern residential devices may be [...]
Why Your Electrician Should Be Licensed
Electrical work should always be left to a professional. Whether you have flickering lights, tripping circuit breakers, or foul odors or other signs of faulty wires and electrical components, you must find not just someone experienced with electrical service, but someone who is also licensed. Any electrician near you with a license will have the proper training and [...]
Benefits of An Emergency Electrician
Homeowners throughout Southern California depend on Express Electrical Services for emergency electrical repairs. Even if electrical problems don’t happen often in your home, you never know when you might need an emergency electrician. Fixing a power surge, flickering light, buzzing outlet, or junction box on your own can be very dangerous; you risk serious injury, including electric shocks [...]
Why Circuit Breakers Trip
A circuit breaker is designed to cut the flow of electricity and is thus essential to home safety. This switching device will cut the power, or trip, if too much electricity is flowing through a circuit or an excess current load is too much for it to handle. Turning off the electricity can prevent a lot of damage. [...]
Our Home Safety Services
Every year, over 18,000 people die from home-related injuries in the U.S. Millions more are injured. However, safety-related deaths and injuries are often preventable. While our 24/7 emergency electrical repairs can keep you protected, a range of home safety services are available to our customers in Southern California. Protect yourself and your family by allowing our licensed and [...]
Why Choose LED Lighting for Your Home
LED lighting technology is quickly replacing traditional incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs. An LED, or light emitting diode, is more efficient than filaments and other components of older light bulbs. Here are a few reasons to consider installing LED lights in your home or business. Efficiency A conventional bulb converts only 20% of its energy into light. The [...]
5 Tips to Get Your Electrical System Summer Ready
Energy use rises during the warmer months. Spring is, therefore, an ideal time to examine electrical usage and find ways to conserve. By getting your electrical system summer ready, you can save on energy bills, not to mention improve reliability and safety. In addition to calling a professional for electrical repairs if you notice flickering lights, power surges, [...]