Repair

There are a number of reasons that you may need electric repairs at your home or business. However damage from storms, rain or flooding requires special attention as do older homes when it comes to electrical repair.

Electrical damage from rain or flooding

Storm and hurricanes can cause significant damage to homes. Winds and driving rain can blow shingles off of roofs, and weaken the structural integrity of a home.

Further, any of these potential issues are then compounded by the flooding that accompanies these major weather events. Making any repairs after a storm or hurricane is a daunting task; and making electric repairs is something that should only be done by a trained professional. Without the background experience and education in electric repairs, it is easy to miss something that needs to be fixed.

For example, every electrical component that has been below floodwater needs to be replaced after the water recedes, from outlets to appliances and even major components such as furnaces. The standing floodwater is full of unknown pollutants that will cause damage to the finely tuned parts of electric appliances and insulated electrical wiring, even if they seem unaffected at first. If these components are not replaced, this damage can lead to simple malfunctions or major electric fires.

Maintaining older homes

Additionally, regular wear and tear on electrical systems, particularly the electrical systems in older homes, can require electric repair. Most older homes and buildings are simply not equipped to handle the electricity needs of a modern family or business. For example, the minimum requirement for a new home’s circuit breaker capacity is one hundred amps, but many choose to have two hundred amps because they have more than three major appliances.

Older homes, however, generally have only a sixty amp capacity, making it much easier to overload the electrical system in an older home. Between washers and dryers, dishwashers, televisions, stereo systems, the coffeepot, oven, and the many other conveniences of modern life, it is easy to overload an older system and require electric repairs.

Even if the system in an older home is able to handle the energy demands of its occupants, the current that flows through the many wires and connections in an electrical system creates constant heat, pressure, and other stresses. This constant use and stress wears on the component, affecting the integrity of the insulating as well as the conductivity of the metal components. Normal use will eventually wear some components out, requiring electric repairs or replacements of those overused parts.

How to wire a ceiling fan

A ceiling fan requires a neutral wire (white), a ground wire (green), a hot wire for the fan (black), and on fans with light kits a hot wire for the lights (blue). These examples will assume that a lighting kit is going to be used, but if it is not terminations to the blue wire are not required and the circuit is greatly simplified.

A ceiling fan can basically be wired in one of few different configurations. Power could be wired directly to the fan, always having the fan hot. The incoming hot feed would connect to both the black and blue wire. This would allow control of the fan and lights via the pull strings.

The ceiling fan and light can also be wired through switches. When a single switch is used to connect to the ceiling fan and light the ceiling fan (black) and light (blue) would both be connected to the switched black wire. In this configuration turning the switch on would power both the light and ceiling fan. In order to turn just one off, the pull strings would have to be used. The problem with this approach, is that when the pull strings have been used to turn the light or ceiling fan off, turning the switch back on will not work until the pull string is pulled again.

Goodfellas Electric Company has been servicing the Louisville area with quality electrical services since September 2008.. If you are located outside of the Louisville area, don't worry, we will travel to any part of the greater Kentucky area including Jeffersontown, and do a great job in your part of town.

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