Monday, May 18, 2015
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Don't Forget Electrical Outlets For Holiday and Landscape Lighting For Your New Custom Home
Don't Forget Electrical Outlets For Holiday and Landscape Lighting For Your New Custom Home
When building your new Central Florida Luxury Home, don't forget to ask the electrician to provide outlets on the exterior of your home for landscape and holiday lighting.
Exterior lighting is often overlooked but very important. You've spent a lot of money building your home with all the special touches so accenting the outside of your beautiful home is vital. That special landscape grouping, waterfall, fountain, trim detail, pool area or expensive palm tree.
Even if you decide not to install landscape lighting while you're building your home, you'll need someplace to plug them in when you do. It's best to have your Builder's landscape lighting company preplan how the system will be laid out and installed.
While your at it, preplan for Christmas, Chanukah, Halloween or other special occasion lighting. GFI outlets may need to be installed in soffit overhangs on the two story section of your home. Something that will come in handy at holiday time.
Don't forget to surge protect the landscape lighting to avoid a nasty power surge that back flows into you homes electrical system if there is a lightning strike.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Whole House Electrical Surge From Lightning Strikes, What You May Be Doing To Encourage Them.
Whole House Electrical Surge From Lightning Strikes, What You May Be Doing To Encourage Them
They say Central Florida is the Lightning Capital of The World! I'm not sure that's true but we sure do get a lot of lightning strikes!
Unfortunately, most homeowners get their education regarding power surges and lightning after their home get hit with a power surge that knocks out $1,000's worth of electronic gear.
You may be doing something that encourages a whole house power surge! If you have an electronic dog collar system, gate entry control, a yard fountain control, a booster for your cell phone signal, AC compressors, well, landscape lighting, irrigation controls, outdoor speakers for your stereo system, pool equipment and controls, irrigation pump, outdoor network or security cameras you are encouraging a power surge.
Imagine, a spider web of electronic wires spread out in your yard extending 100's of feet past the perimeter of your home and a tree get struck with a lightning bolt. The bolt of lightning travels into the ground and is picked up by the spider web of wires. The surge from the strike travels backwards through the wires and into your homes electrical system. The result is a power surge that fries a number of electronic items, unless all those exterior items are surge protected.
This is the type of issue our low voltage contractor can protect from happening in your new home. Something to think about and certainly not something your landscape lighting guy told you could happen.
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