Uncategorized

Your Electrical System Is Complex Your electrical system doesn’t have a complex, but with all those wires and components, it is complex. That doesn’t mean you can’t hope to get to know or even understand it, however. We’re going to do our best to break things down as simply as possible. In part one, you […]

Good question, but hang on.  Before we answer your “The outlet with the buttons isn’t working, now what?” question, let’s give you a little background. First of all, your “outlet with the buttons” is called a GFCI outlet. “A GF what now?” GFCI stands for Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter. You usually install these outlets where […]

Did Ben Franklin “discover” electricity? No. Want to elaborate on that a little? Okay, fine. Scientists were working with electrical forces for over a thousand years before Benjamin Franklin supposedly flew his famous kite. What Franklin’s experiment did demonstrate was the connection between lightning and electricity. Franklin attached a wire to a kite. Then, he […]

Timely question. Today, electric vehicles are less like something from The Jetsons and more like just another car. Evidence? The U.S. had 1,972 public charging stations in 2011. We have over 16,500 in 2017 and more are coming. If electric vehicles are the future, the future is here. While there are more and more public […]

In part one, we answered the question “Does a hot tub increase the value of my home?” and landed on the less-than-definitive with the not-so-definitive answer of “it depends.” We shared some hot tub health benefits (turns out they’re relaxing) and finally estimated roughly how much a hot tub will cost you. Spoiler alert: it […]

Most of the time, flickering lights are not a big deal. Sometimes, however, they could indicate a major electrical problem. Let’s start with the easy stuff. You might have a loose or defective bulb This might seem obvious, but sometimes a problem is so easy to fix that you don’t think about it. Always remember […]

Hot Tub, Gonna Make Ya Sweat-a! That might be what Eddie Murphy sang when he impersonated James Brown on Saturday Night Live, but don’t worry: the hot tub itself might make you sweat, but putting it in won’t. Seriously? It’s easy to put in a hot tub? “Easy” is a relative term, so let’s just […]

This blog… is also about wells. Here’s part 2 of our blogs about well pumps. In part one, we helped you figure out what’s going on when your well stops producing water. In this blog, we’re going to tackle two more of the most common well pump problems. Here’s how to deal with weird water […]

In part one of the electric water heater blog, you learned how a water heater works, and how to troubleshoot some common problems. At the end of part 1, we promised we’d tell you how to replace the heating elements in your water heater. It’s a bigger job, but it’s also simple, straightforward, uncomplicated, quite […]