Having the assurance that your home has power and air conditioning in the time of a national emergency is equivalent in value to a home insurance policy. It is an indemnity of your family’s safety, peace of mind, and personal lifestyle.
Hurricane Ike caused 2.4 million people along the entire Texas Gulf Coast, and especially in the Houston area, to lose electrical power. Consequently, emergency power generators have been a highly sought after commodity in almost every community across the region. Emergency generators are being sold throughout Houston in almost every appliance store, home improvement center, and local hardware store. The news media has done a good job of warning people of the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning and how to safely install a generator outside their home or garage.
Due to the severity and size of this storm, little time has been devoted to explaining how to select a home generator or what or what size would meet their electrical needs. People are confused and uninformed as to what fuel source and capacity to look for in an emergency power source. It is critical that you make certain that your emergency generator’s capacity is not being exceeded by its current usage. As a service to all of Houston, ILD is offering service calls to check your portable generator setup and make sure its operable, safe and reliable.
Why would I need a service call if my generator is working fine?
We recommend that you have a professional double check portable home emergency generator to make sure it has not been overloaded. Consumer generators will only handle so much electrical load pulled from appliances loads such as your fridge, freezer and selected light circuits. Running extension cords through open windows and doors and plugging too many appliances into multiple power outlets may create an unstable situation. Our professionals can quickly spot and remedy this if this proves to be the case.
Do I need to buy a new generator now?
No. Making plans for emergency power takes time, planning, and careful consideration. Accidents happen when plans are rushed, not to mention added expenses and emotional hardships. Looking ahead to the next power outage, we can help you determine which commercial-grade unit will safely power your home in the event of an emergency.
What should I invest in for the future?
Ideally, you should plan for a future investment in a permanently installed generator that will connect to your home’s circuit panel. Just as a sprinkler system begins with the water meter, electricity in the home begins with the panel. Many ILD customers who made this investment in our specialized electrical services prior to Ike have found it a Godsend during this current crisis.
We can help you start now at the same time we maximize your current portable generator’s usage.
This size of the generator we recommend will ultimately be determined by the number of appliances and home systems you intend to power with the unit. Emergency generators rated at the commercial-grade level that are professionally wired to the home’s circuit panel are a much safer and more reliable source of emergency power for Houston homeowner’s. Installing such a generator by yourself is not recommended. It will take a professional, licensed electrical service technician to correctly install a permanent generator for emergency power and home lighting controls.
What will ILD do to help me plan for the future?
Before recommending a generator, ILD electricians isolate critical circuits to major home systems and appliances, and they determine any potential hazards in new home wiring design. This is for good reason. If your home wiring was not initially designed to handle a specific electrical load, hooking up a generator prematurely could blow a fuse or destroy an appliance. If we identify a potential problem area, we can easily implement a provisional wiring scheme that will safely route power to vital home systems such as the air conditioner, home automation devices, and security systems. If necessary, we will install dedicated circuits to essential home appliances such as computers, televisions, and refrigerator/freezers. A commercial-grade generator will be able to then deliver specific loads of power to each of these areas that have been calculated in advance to ensure both safe operation and continued emergency power performance throughout the remainder of this crisis. With the proactive service of advanced electrical home wiring by Illuminations Lighting and Design, you and your family will be prepared for the next hurricane, tropical storm, or local blackout.
Can you install my current portable generator at my service panel?
It is most likely that we will recommend something larger than the standard 5600 Watt gasoline-powered generators that many people have installed on their back porches. We recommend as well an alternative source of fuel besides gasoline power (which remains in short supply throughout much of Houston.)
Generators that run on diesel and natural gas will soon be available through ILD, so both the service and the products you need can be quickly obtained by a phone call to our office. Our phone lines are working and operators are standing by to get your home’s emergency power management plan implemented and underway as soon as possible. Call toll free 800-863-1184 or locally 713-863-1133 to lean more about Houston home construction and how an emergency backup generator can benefit you!
Illuminations Lighting Design is a full service design build firm specializing in residential and commercial indoor lighting and outdoor lighting, electrical service and maintenance as well as home automation, home theaters, emergency generators, surge protection systems, phone systems and lighting control systems.
We are located in Houston Texas but provide lighting and design services in Austin TX, El Paso Texas, San Antonio TX, College Station Texas, Beaumont TX, Dallas Texas, Midland Tx and points beyond.Labels: Electrical home back up generators, Emergency Power Generators, Houston Electrical Contractor, Houston Home Construction
Illuminations Lighting and Design offers the Houston Home Construction company a subcontract resource in home wiring, home controls, and home lighting that is multi-dimensional and multi-specialized across the board. Working with ILD can make both the architect’s and the general contractor’s job much easier, because there are several things we can do under their invoice that can fulfill the most robust demands of the particular and eclectic Houston homeowner.
Houston Home Construction Companies can subcontract ILD for advanced electrical wiring services.
Custom homes normally feature very spacious floor plans and ornate interior lighting designs. They also tend to house very expensive audio-visual equipment and top-of-the-line appliances. This equipment requires dedicated circuits be installed in order to power and protect it from power fluctuations and surges. Home theater and whole house audio, for example, are rising in popularity and require both dedicated circuits and sophisticated controls to operate. The best time to install these systems and control is when the new home is built. Many residents also want to have Lutron lighting controls and home automation networks installed in their new home when it is built. Houston construction companies can bring in our new home wiring and home automation team for any and all of these projects.
Houston Home Construction Companies can contact ILD to install sophisticated power protection and backup systems.
Houston home construction companies must safeguard electrical components and lighting equipment with backup power systems that will not only protect home equipment in the event of a power failure, but also maintain basic home functionality in the time of a crisis. Whole house surge suppression is the homeowner’s best line of defense against power surges. It will protect the circuit panel and the interior wiring from overload in the event of a power surge. If the entire neighborhood suffers from a blackout, the home needs a second line of defense—the electrical generator. We install any number of electrical generator types and sizes in new homes that will power a portion of the home or even the entire home itself for a reasonable period of time until inclement weather passes or the municipal power grid is restored.
ILD partners with Houston Home construction companies to give the builder’s clientele the very best interior lighting systems possible.
Custom home owners choose the very best floor plans in order to live the most eclectic and personalized lifestyles possible. The home is a sacred retreat from the traffic jams and busy pace of Houston office life and therefore very much a personal, private space. Home construction companies may contract ILD to design and install house lighting systems that make both the exterior of the house and the interior of the living space shine with a light that is special and unique to the lifestyle of the homeowner. Our access to all types of specification grade fixtures, along with proprietary art lighting and display lighting fixtures, makes us a one-stop resource for any Houston home construction company or interior design firm that is called upon to develop a new living experience with light.
ILD will integrate and/or automate home systems at the request of the construction company.
As the complexity of new home architecture increase, the many subsystems that make a house into a home require both more advanced controls and more integrated functionality. For example, a whole house audio system needs to be connected to a network that will not only control the choice, distribution, and volume for the music, but will also create complimentary lighting that compliments the mood and tempo of the selection. This is tantamount to a technological integration of sensory experience that requires sophisticated lighting and home theater control systems to be installed and wired properly. Many homeowners would rather minimum of automation for these controls, choosing to rely upon manual controls to choose their own system settings. Still others prefer that their home construction company build their residence with as much automation as possible. In either case, ILD home system integration experts can fulfill these requirements under the umbrella of the general contractor.
Houston landscapers and construction companies can come to ILD for advanced and cost effective Landscape Lighting Design.
The architecture of most custom homes is very ornate and often reminiscent of earlier historical periods and/or classic motifs. Ideally, the surrounding property this architectural uniqueness as much as possible, and it should strive to unify the presentation of the dwelling with the geometry, balance, and aesthetics of Nature itself. Lighting is essential to creating this unity, as house lights and landscape lights can be balanced and timed in such a way as to create an outdoor living experience equivalent to that within the home. Houston home construction companies who are building new houses on large lots are encouraged to consider our landscape lighting services as a finishing touch to architecture, wiring, and home lighting customization.
Proven Success
For 27 years now, ILD has worked with Houston home construction companies and home remodeling firms to help the custom homeowner enjoy the most technologically sound and aesthetically pleasing home lighting and control systems possible. Our staff has been cross trained in landscaping, art theory, interior design, and basic principles of architecture and is intended to function hand in glove with the general contract invoice any Houston home construction firm. Call us at 800-863-1184 today to talk about your next project.
Illuminations Lighting Design is a full service design build firm specializing in residential and commercial indoor lighting and outdoor lighting, electrical service and maintenance as well as home automation, home theaters, emergency generators, surge protection systems, phone systems and lighting control systems.
We are located in Houston Texas but provide lighting and design services in Austin TX, El Paso Texas, San Antonio TX, College Station Texas, Beaumont TX, Dallas Texas, Midland Tx and points beyond.Labels: Electrician Jobs Houston Texas, Home and Garden Landscape Lighting, Home System Integration, Houston Electrical Contractors, Houston Home Construction, Independant Residential Electrical Contractor
