If you are planning on remodeling your home, making an addition, or installing new electrical appliances, you may need to update the electrical wiring in your home. You shouldn’t try updating electrical wiring in an old home yourself. It is a tricky process and can be dangerous and complicated to do on your own. At Mr. Electric of Ontario, our team specializes in home wiring updates in Ontario, Chino, and Riverside, CA. When you update electrical wiring in a home, you can improve your home’s safety, energy-efficiency, and electrical performance. Home wiring updates service also increases the value of your home. Call us today to schedule an appointment for home wiring updates, or to request an estimate for the cost to update electrical wiring in a home.
Review Signs You Should Update Electrical Wiring in Home
As soon as you notice any signs of a problem with your home’s electrical wiring, you should contact a professional for home wiring updates service. If you wait, the problem will get bigger and more expensive. You also are putting your health and safety at risk and increasing the risk of damage to your home. Call us today if you see any of these signs you need to update electrical wiring at home:
- The wiring is more than 40 years old.
- You have aluminum wiring.
- You keep seeing flickering lights.
- You smell something burning.
- Your outlets and/or switches are discolored.
- You don’t have enough outlets.
- Your circuit breaker keeps tripping.
- Your outlets aren’t grounded.
- Your electrical panel is over-amped or over-fused.
- Your switch plates, cords, or plugs are hot to the touch.
- Your light bulbs burn out very quickly.
- You see arcs or sparks from an outlet when you plug or unplug a cord.
- You have loose outlets.
- Your insulation is cracked, cut, or broken.
- You get an electrical shock when you flip a switch, plug in a cord, or touch a cord.