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Top 3 Benefits Of PowerPod Battery Backup For Your Home In San Mateo

Moving beyond options for generators, the PowerPod has become more popular among savvy homeowners. It's described as a smart way to safeguard against power outages while still saving on monthly electricity bills. [...]

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Is Your Parking Lot Lighting Keeping Customers Away?

If your business is in a commercial building, you should know that your customer experience starts in the parking lot. Parking lot lights are an important factor for a business at night. If the parking lot outside your commercial building isn't bright enough, customers will be hesitant to park or shop at your establishment. [...]

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3 Signs Your Home Needs Professional Electrical Repairs

Your electrical system is easily one of the most important components of your home, and whether you realize it or not, you and your family rely on your electrical system to continue functioning safely and effectively in order to enjoy all of the comfort, safety, and convenience that your home has to offer. [...]

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Surge Protection: What You Need to Know

Every San Mateo homeowner should make sure that their homes have adequate surge protection, so you should ask your electrician about surge protectors if your house lacks sufficient surge protection equipment. Having a surge protector allows you to plug several appliances and devices into one power outlet without creating an electrical hazard. [...]

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Why Your Outlet Isn't Working

You're about to go to bed, and your dead phone is in your hand. You plug it into the wall outlet by your bed, and go to sleep thinking that it will be fully charged when you awaken. However, you wake up groggy and without a charged phone, and you wonder why. Well, if it's not your phone, it's an electrical failure, and contacting your San Mateo electrical service in Topeka for an outlet repair is your best option. Electrical outlet failures, although inconvenient, are common, and they have multiple causes. [...]

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Home 3 Signs You Need A Panel Upgrade For Your San Mateo Home

Electricity has a fairly long journey before it finds its way into your home, and when it does, your electrical panel serves as the gateway into your San Mateo home. Your electrical panel is responsible for taking the power from the line outside your home and distributing it throughout your house to where it is needed, but if your electrical panel is a bit older, it might not be able to distribute the kind of power your home needs, or might not be able to do so safely [...]

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Electrical Safety Inspections – What They Are & How They Help

As a San Francisco homeowner who wants to take the best care possible of your house, it only makes sense that electrical safety inspections would be something that you are considering. Among all the components that make up your household, electric is the most important, as well as the most potentially dangerous. Yet, the common approach people take is to ignore the need for an inspection and take a gamble [...]

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Electric Panel 101 & Why You Need Upgrades

One of the most important features of your electrical system is the panel. This nondescript metal box is the area that controls all the electricity within you home. Your electrical panel is the very reason that you can turn on lights, use kitchen appliances, and watch television. If there is ever a problem with your electrical panel, you and your San Mateo family will probably suffer major inconveniences [...]

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What is a Level 2 Vehicle Charger?

Electric cars are rapidly becoming more and more popular not only in San Mateo and California but across the country. It’s most likely true that at some point in the near future, vehicles powered by electricity will be the standard of the automotive industry, so it’s important that we have the infrastructure to properly charge these vehicles when the time comes [...]

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Beautify and Protect Your San Mateo Home By Installing Landscape Lighting

One of the best ways that you can improve your San Mateo home or business is to install landscape lighting. For homeowners, landscape lighting increases your family’s enjoyment of your home while providing you with an extra sense of security. For business owners, having quality landscape lighting is essential in that it protects your investment from criminal activity, enhances the look of your property, and ensures that your customers can navigate your property in the safest fashion possible [...]

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What You Need To Know About San Carlos Electrical Safety

If you know how many people suffer minor or serious electricity-related damages and harm, you will be surprised at the alarming number of people who either experience damage on themselves or on their property due to electricity-related accidents. With this said, you have to make sure that you make your home as safe as possible by ensuring that every single part of your electrical system is installed and wired properly. Here are some facts that you should know about San Carlos electrical safety, and about how you may keep your home and your family free from the consequences of electrical oversights [...]

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Your House needs a San Carlos Electrical Inspection

Having a San Carlos electrical inspection done regularly inspected is one of those important maintenance procedures that most homeowners often overlook. At the most, inspections were only called for when a fuse had already blown up or the switches had already failed to function [...]

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Why Your Home Needs A San Mateo Home Generators

With harsh winters come power outages, and with loss of power, most homes today come to a stand still. None of the appliances work, which is especially bad for food kept in freezers and refrigerators, the heat shuts off, and so does the water. This is bad enough in any home, but is worse if somebody in the home has health problems, and for the elderly or babies [...]

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Why Your Home Needs San Mateo Whole House Surge Protection

A San Mateo Whole House Surge Protector is a device that protects the electronics and appliances in your home from sharp spikes in electric power, called “surges.” Electric surges can fry the electronics in computers, phones, thermostats, TVs, microwaves, fridges…any appliance that has computerized components. Today, that’s most appliances [...]

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How You Save Money From San Mateo Solar Shingles

When it comes to San Mateo solar energy, many large companies and commercial buildings are utilizing solar panels to help cut down costs and be environmentally friendly. But it isn’t as easy for homeowners to take advantage of its benefits [...]

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