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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 […]

Have you ever been in a bar or restaurant when they dim the lights? They do this for a reason. The right lighting creates a more emotional, social dining experience. It makes the food and the people around you look more appealing. When lighting does that, you’ll want to stay longer… and spend more money. […]

Part one of our blog on dimmer switches covered what they do and why you should consider installing them. We spent so much time gushing about the virtues of the dimmer, in fact, that we didn’t have the space to actually teach you how to install one. Yeah, we know, it’s classic. That’s why we […]

You park in a lit parking lot. You walk into the grocery store through doors that open automatically. Large LED lights hang from the ceiling throughout the store. You pull some of the food you’re buying out of freezers or refrigerators. When you check out, you put that food on a moving conveyor belt. Your […]

The National Electrical Safety Code (NESC) is the US standard for the safe installation, operation, and maintenance of electric power and communication utility systems. It covers how to properly install and utilize power substations and power overhead and underground lines. With that kind of verbose definition, you might think the NESC is some government program–but it’s […]

To Be Safe, Follow The Code If you read The National Electrical Safety Code blog you learned that the NESC sets a safety standard for installing, operating, and maintaining electrical power and communication utility systems. The NESC covers how to properly maintain power substations, power and communication overhead and underground lines, and more. Now, you […]

Just because these electrical problems are common doesn’t mean you don’t have to worry about them or get them fixed. Unfortunately, even common electrical problems can be expensive or even dangerous if they’re left alone. Here are some of the electrical problems pretty much everyone will have to deal with at some point. Let’s go […]

The bad news: in 2017, there were over 1,319,500 fires caused by electrical problems. These fires resulted in 3,400 deaths, 14,670 injuries, and $23 billion in damages. The good news: if you keep an eye out for the warning signs, you can prevent these kinds of fires. What kind of warning signs? Let’s take a […]

To start this blog about circuit breakers (and broken circuits), let’s start in Borneo. Obviously. See, there’s this ant in Borneo, the Colobopsis saundersi, that blows itself up whenever it’s seriously threatened. Seriously. Let’s say there are a bunch of these ants, just hanging around the treetops of Borneo, doing “ant stuff.” If they’re attacked, […]

Analogy alert! Let’s say you just gave an all-star quarterback a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to play on your team. With their talents, you could go all the way! Meanwhile, however, the offensive linemen on your team are 5’4” and weigh about 145 pounds. They’re up against gigantic 6’3”, 345 linemen. These behemoths want to […]