What You Should Know About Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters (GFCI)
If your GFCI does not function as outlined above you should contact a licensed electrical contractor or electrician to check and fix the GFCI.
Electricians Tips & Tricks
What You Should Know About Electrical Fixtures
Check all electrical fixtures to ensure that they bear the mark of a recognized certification agency. Click here for marks Before you start – 5 steps can protect your family and your home: The Electrical Safety Authority recommends the use of a licensed electrical contractor or electrician for electrical work in your home.
Be More Energy Efficient – Winterize Your Home
Even homes with adequate insulation material and water pipe heat tape can be further fortified for winter months. Regardless if winter is already well under way, it still isn’t too late to winterize your home. The following steps can save you time, money, and help you avoid inconvenient cold-weather emergencies. A programmable digital thermostat is …
How to Get Paid to Save Energy
With oil jumping over $100 a barrel many of you are probably wondering, “What is our government doing about this?” You may think that governments should be able to countermand the requests of the “money-hungry” oil-producing countries and utility companies. After all the price of heating a home is steadily increasing to the tune of …
Does Your Kitchen Renovation Plan Involve a New Major Kitchen Appliance? Check out this Appliance Outlet Installation Guide
If you are planning a kitchen remodeling renovation project, chances are it involves at least one major kitchen appliance. Modern, state-of-the-art kitchen appliances offer many cutting edge innovations in their design feature. Programmable digital touch-control features, sleek stainless steel construction, and one-piece heating surfaces using space-age materials with heating elements built inside are common on …
Don’t Get Tangled with an Unlicensed Electrical Contractor
Meeting The Code When considering new construction or a remodeling project, one of the most important aspects is the electrical portion of the work. While many homeowners do some of the electrical work themselves, it is wise to enlist the services of a licensed electrical contractor. Electrical wiring, circuit boxes, and fixtures can represent a …
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Electrical Contractors
For the creature comforts of a new home nothing is complete without the services of an electrician. Heating, air conditioning, showers and dishwashing all need electrical connections to function and would sit idle with this attachment. As well, in terms of safety for the home there is no more important person than the electrical contractor. …
Off Peak Electric Power Use
One of the most inconvenient things that can happen to a homeowner is an electrical black-out, or even a brown-out where the current is reduced to below the minimum requirements for the grid. Both occur when there is a failure in an important part of the electric power grid and brown-outs usually happens when power …
7 Tips for Living Off the Grid in Canada
Very few people think about alternative sources of energy until electricity and oil prices begin to go through the roof. And in Canada this has only been happening during the past few years, or since the world price of oil topped $50 US. In 2005 the price of fuel oil sent homeowners scrambling to learn …