Insurance Companies Agree: It’s Time to Upgrade Your Electrical System
Do you live in an old home that has outdated wiring? Have you recently moved into a home and noticed some improvised electrical work? Are you frustrated with blown fuses? If yes, then it’s probably time to upgrade your electrical system.
You don’t have to take our word for it either. Your insurance company thinks you should upgrade; you’re due for an electrical upgrade. If the safety of you and your loved ones isn’t enough, there’s a financial incentive too. Upgrading your electrical work to meet current building codes will lower your insurance premiums—imagine that? With an electrical upgrade from LinkNow Media, you can make your home safer and save money at the same time!
Fuse to Breaker Upgrades
The most common upgrades LinkNow Media performs are fuse to breaker upgrades. Fuses worked fine when homes weren’t outfitted with high voltage appliances, but the strain of modern appliances has made fuses an irritation and a life-threatening hazard. In many cases, insurance companies won’t even insure your home if it has a fuse box: it’s just too risky.
An upgraded electrical circuit breaker panel will make your home’s electrical system more efficient and more reliable; rather than blowing a fuse when you overload the system, the breaker switch will turn off the power. Circuit breakers protect you from electrical fires and can handle way more electrical current than fuse boxes. Forget about the 60-amp limit of your old fuse box; modern residential circuit breakers can handle up to 200-amps, so you will rarely—if ever—worry about overloading it.
Surge Protection
When appliances use less power, there is less risk of a power surge. A power surge happens when a sudden—excessive—amount of electricity overloads an appliance or a circuit breaker. The excess electricity must go somewhere. Unfortunately, humans are very good conductors of electricity, leaving you and your loved ones at risk. On top of that, power surges can permanently damage your appliances and the electronics in your circuit breaker.
LinkNow Media can install surge protectors in your circuit breaker. We also recommend surge protection power bars. This will protect your home from surges that can cost you a lot of money and potentially injure you; the added incentive of lower insurance premiums sounds pretty good too.
Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI)
Our qualified electricians can also upgrade your circuit breaker to include GFCI’s. These handy little devices will cut the power to a circuit at the first sign of an electrical imbalance; whether incoming or outgoing. They help protect your property and—as with all the upgrades we offer—they help protect your loved ones too.
Insurance is expensive enough. Why would you want to pay more just to continue using an electrical system that puts you at risk of damage, injury, and death? No two ways about, it’s time for an electrical upgrade from LinkNow Media.