Make Your Home Safer With Updated Wiring Have you recently thought about remodeling your home and wondered what you were going to do with the electrical wiring you currently have in place? Remodeling can be fun, but when doing so there is always the risk of running into electrical problems. If you live in an … Read more
Fuse Boxes & Circuit Breakers: What Do They Share in Common? Let’s start with the similarities between a fuse box and a circuit breaker panel. Both of these electrical systems work to prevent problems associated with overloaded electrical circuits. This means they function as your home’s first defense against potential electrical fires. That said, they … Read more
Protect Your Home and Your Family With a Grounded Electrical System At Raynor Services, we are often answering the same types of customer questions, the biggest one being: How can proper grounding of a home’s electrical wiring make my home safer? While we never mind informing our customers, we thought it’d be a great idea … Read more
Check For a Tripped Breaker or GFCI Outlet Chances are that at least once in your life you’ve experienced a power outage – probably during a thunderstorm or when you had too many electronics plugged in at once. But, have you ever had it happen to just one room in your house? You tried changing … Read more
Changing Your Air Filters Can Increase Home Comfort Don’t let this spring-like weather get your hopes up: winter is still looming, and Mount Laurel is expected to get back to the 30 degree range by next week. This means you’ll need to have a working furnace for a little bit longer in order to keep … Read more
What is knob-and-tube wiring exactly? It’s an outdated method of electrical wiring found in homes built before the year 1950. The name comes from the ceramic knobs that support the rig and the ceramic tubes that protects the wiring. The primary difference between today’s wiring and knob-and-tube style is that the black and white wires … Read more
Why should I upgrade from a fuse panel to a breaker panel system? It’s pretty simple—fuses are old and outdated technology. How old? Well, the original patent for the fuse panel was taken out by none other than Thomas Edison in the year 1885! And even though fuse panel technology has been supplemented and patched … Read more
Gas vs. Electric: Which Will You Choose? In the market for a new furnace? If you have no limitations on model, style, fuel type, or anything else, then you might be having a pretty tough time, as there are so many options out there to choose from. Let our heating experts here at Raynor Services … Read more
Well, we have certainly gotten a little beat up by winter weather these past couple months. And as temperatures continue to reach below freezing temperatures outdoors, you’ll want to make sure they aren’t doing the same indoors as well! We can all agree that there is little worse than coming in from the cold only … Read more
All optimism aside, we are still in the midst of a particularly frigid winter season. These past few weeks, we have all been facing the very worst weather that winter has to offer, haven’t we? Spring may be peeking over the horizon, but it is still a ways off and you will need your furnace … Read more