Analogy alert! Let’s say you just gave an all-star quarterback a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to play on your team. With their talents, you could go all the way! Meanwhile, however, the offensive linemen on your team are 5’4” and weigh about 145 pounds. They’re up against gigantic 6’3”, 345 linemen. These behemoths want to surge through your pathetic offensive line and destroy your expensive quarterback. And, obviously, they will. No matter how great your quarterback, it won’t matter if you can’t defend them until they throw the ball! If you’re going to get your money’s worth out of your QB, you’ll need to upgrade your linemen, too.

Now imagine the quarterback represents your computers, televisions, or home entertainment gear. You’ll need to protect valuable stuff if you want to keep using it. If you’re only using an outlet strip as a surge protector, you’re not protecting your electronics enough. Your outlet strip is the itty bitty offensive linemen, and power surges are the giants. One power surge or spike could destroy your expensive electronics. You won’t get to use them again, and you’ll have wasted all that money. Here are a few very good reasons why you might want to invest in whole-house surge protection.

Whole-house surge protection acts as a barrier to stop these transient surges from destroying your electrical system and electronics. It protects your entire home through a network of surge protectors operating together. Surge protectors are placed on your incoming electricity-connected and utility service lines to prevent surges from penetrating your home. We then examine critical locations in your home and allocate secondary protection for surges in those areas.

Why We Recommend Installing Whole House Surge Protection

Read this example which has happend a few too many times during my experience as an electrician.  A storm comes through and an indirect or direct lightning surges through your home. Power may or may not go out. But you notice lights are flickering, wifi does not work, fridge is out, and oh the expensive mac book no longer works.  It could be all of these or just a few items.  I have seen it destroy fridges, flat screens, wifi equipment and every GFCI in the home.

You think ” I got home owners or rental insurance to cover these items” You make the call to a licensed electrician (Hopefully  The Flash Electric -770-584-6186) to have someone come and access your home.  After paying us our minimum affordable fee to come and take a look. You then call your insurance company only to discover that your deductible is higher than what it would cost to just replace the items. 

All of this could have been avoided with a simple $300-500 install of a whole house surge protection device.

So before this happens go ahead and send us a picture of your electrical panel to 770-584-6186 and text “The Flash” To the same number for an instant 20% discount. With a picture of your electrical panel we can have a quote back very quickly.

When it comes to protecting your home in Athens, GA, you can rely on a whole house surge protection installation from Service Professionals from damaging power surges. Trusted in thousands of Athens, GA homes for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you can read more about The Flash Electric LLC service level guarantee and from our other delighted customers.