Ask a Merchantville Electrician: How To Improve Electrical Safety
Improving the electrical safety and performance of your home or business sounds like a good idea, right? Saving money while improving energy efficiency? Sign me up! But, how to start? Our Recommendations: Top Ways to Improve Electrical Safety and Performance While some of these suggestions may seem more or less like common sense, none are […]
Safely Wiring New Home Appliances Berlin
When it comes to wiring up new appliances in your home, here’s a tip: don’t go it alone. Avoid unnecessary risk of property damage or personal injury and leave the electrical wiring work to our trained professionals. Why? Electrical systems are complex and can easily become unstable and dangerous if mismanaged. Electrical wiring, even for the […]
Home Re-Wiring in Trenton
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 […]
Difference Between a Fuse Box and Circuit Breaker in Berlin
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 […]
Whole House Electrical System Grounding Trenton
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 […]
Bathroom Power Loss Mount Laurel
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 […]
Ask a Trenton Electrician: What is Knob and Tube Wiring?
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 It’s an outdated method of electrical wiring found in homes built before the year 1950.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 […]
Ask a Berlin Electrician: All About Service Panel Upgrades
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 […]
Ask a Berlin Electrician: Top 3 Signs of Electrical Problems
Whether your Berlin residence was recently built or has been there for years, most problems in its electrical system will display some warning signs before they become serious. Being able to recognize these signs and react appropriately can help you know when it’s time to call up Raynor Services to help avert an unsafe electrical […]
Electrical Burning Smell in Willingboro
Here’s an important safety tip: if you notice a burning smell emanating from an outlet or light fixture in your home DO NOT IGNORE IT. In most cases, the smell you’re picking up on will be linked to singed or overheating electrical wires and devices. These often emit a distinct burning odor when they are […]