BUCKLEY’S CHOICE FOR RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICAL SERVICES
Residential Electrical Services in Buckley
There are few small towns in Pierce County as pleasant and welcoming as Buckley. Founded in 1882 and seated directly below Mount Rainier, Buckley has a long proud history deeply rooted in the lumber industry. Every year, the people of Buckley gather to celebrate this history with its annual Buckley Log Show. There is also the local Foothills Museum with galleries dedicated to the early days of Buckley’s history.
As with many small towns, Buckley has a mix of older and newer homes with a wide array of electrical features. As such, the electrical needs of Buckley’s residents also vary. While some wish to outfit their homes with the most luxurious electrical features such as electric car charging stations and upgraded lighting, others simply need updates and repairs to their electrical systems due to damaged wires or failing circuit breakers.
Residential Electrical Services in Buckley
There are few small towns in Pierce County as pleasant and welcoming as Buckley. Founded in 1882 and seated directly below Mount Rainier, Buckley has a long proud history deeply rooted in the lumber industry. Every year, the people of Buckley gather to celebrate this history with its annual Buckley Log Show. There is also the local Foothills Museum with galleries dedicated to the early days of Buckley’s history.
As with many small towns, Buckley has a mix of older and newer homes with a wide array of electrical features. As such, the electrical needs of Buckley’s residents also vary. While some wish to outfit their homes with the most luxurious electrical features such as electric car charging stations and upgraded lighting, others simply need updates and repairs to their electrical systems due to damaged wires or failing circuit breakers.
Electrical Troubleshooting Services
There’s a lot of different reasons a home can potentially be experiencing electrical issues. While damaged or faulty fixtures or poor wiring are pretty easy to locate and fix, issues such as power surges and fixture overheating often have less obvious causes. Thankfully, our Troubleshooting process can help suss out even the most subtle of issues!
During our Troubleshooting process, our electrician will communicate and work directly with you to most efficiently identify and isolate your electrical problem. Once we’ve successfully determined the nature and location of your issue, we perform an extremely thorough inspection of all electrical connections, panels, and outlets to identify any additional trouble areas. If you are experiencing any electrical problems, we guarantee we’ll be able to find and fix it!
Electrical Troubleshooting Services
There’s a lot of different reasons a home can potentially be experiencing electrical issues. While damaged or faulty fixtures or poor wiring are pretty easy to locate and fix, issues such as power surges and fixture overheating often have less obvious causes. Thankfully, our Troubleshooting process can help suss out even the most subtle of issues!
During our Troubleshooting process, our electrician will communicate and work directly with you to most efficiently identify and isolate your electrical problem. Once we’ve successfully determined the nature and location of your issue, we perform an extremely thorough inspection of all electrical connections, panels, and outlets to identify any additional trouble areas. If you are experiencing any electrical problems, we guarantee we’ll be able to find and fix it!
Electrical Installation Services
Regardless of whether your Buckley home is old or new, it deserves the best when it comes to its electrical features! From dedicated circuits to whole home surge protection, we can install new fixtures anywhere in your home!
Whether you are looking to have new lighting, circuits, breakers, or electrical outlets installed in your Buckley home, we’ve got you covered! Our skilled electricians take extra steps to ensure that everything is installed accurately and that your new fixtures integrate seamlessly into your home. We provide free on-site estimates, so give us a call today!
Electrical Repair Services
No matter how careful you are, electrical systems and fixtures occasionally need repair. Whether from normal wear-and-tear or improper installation, outlets, fixtures, and switches can get damaged or break down, impacting their ability to properly function.
Our licensed residential electricians can take care of all your electrical repair needs! From broken receptacles to damaged wires and conduits, we at Schwab Electric are equipped and ready to get the job done. Call today to schedule your repairs!
Electrical Repair Services
No matter how careful you are, electrical systems and fixtures occasionally need repair. Whether from normal wear-and-tear or improper installation, outlets, fixtures, and switches can get damaged or break down, impacting their ability to properly function.
Our licensed residential electricians can take care of all your electrical repair needs! From broken receptacles to damaged wires and conduits, we at Schwab Electric are equipped and ready to get the job done. Call today to schedule your repairs!
Frequently Asked Questions About Electrical Services
Many homes have a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) located in the garage, usually near the panel that protects the garage and outdoor receptacles. If it is tripped, the reset button needs to be pushed in completely to restore power. If it does not restore power, you may need an electrician to troubleshoot the issue
For many homes, there’s one or two GFCIs protecting the kitchen countertop receptacles. Try pushing the ‘Reset’ button, located on one of the receptacles.
Like your kitchen and garage, there is typically a GFCI on bathroom receptacles as well. Look for the ‘Reset’ button on one of the receptacles and press it.
- Replacing ungrounded wiring is quite labor-intensive. It can also be the most expensive thing to replace in your home, because as the wiring must be upgraded to the current codes that older homes typically didn’t follow, as well as being completely replaced.
- Additionally, great care must be made to fish wires up and down finished walls to refeed wires. In several cases, holes may have to be cut in the finished wall in order to get wires to where they need to go.
- Most portable heaters or air conditioners draw a lot of electrical power—typically around 1,500 watts. This is nearly enough to load up an entire circuit, as an average wire and circuit in a home is 15A (1,800 watts).
- There’s few wired spots in a home that allow these appliances to be run without tripping a breaker, but code doesn’t require this much power, nor considers it for portable heating and cooling. A new dedicated circuit is likely needed to power this equipment properly.
Doing this may very well start a fire. Breakers are sized according to the wiring installed and are typically already at the maximum they can be.
Extension cords are meant to be temporary, and aren’t made to be used as a permanent installation. Most extension cords have wires and ratings less than that of your average circuit. Never put a heater or a big electrical load on an extension cord as it could burn up the cord and start a fire.
There is likely a loose wire of some sort somewhere on the circuit. Oftentimes, wires can become loose when a poor connection is made. You’ll need to have an electrician fix the issue.
Our electrical licenses and permits only cover ourselves to do electrical work. We’re not code instructors—it takes years to learn the code, and can’t be taught in a day.
WHY CHOOSE SCHWAB ELECTRIC?
A Residential Electrician installs and repairs nearly everything related to a home’s power and wires. This can include replacing equipment such as electrical outlets (receptacles), switches, light fixtures, circuit breakers, or adding entirely new dedicated circuits for appliances that draw a lot of power such as a spa, air conditioner, or heater.
A trained Residential Electrician knows all the correct parts that suit the job, and can complete a safe, quality, code-compliant installation.
Having a licensed, qualified electrician fix or install electrical components in your home is vital to your safety. The right company will be bonded, licensed, and insured to protect against a poor quality installation or if an accident occurs. Hiring someone unlicensed means you have no protection if they wire something incorrectly, and it could eventually lead to a home fire.
Insurance companies will want to see that an electrician has insurance of their own, and will want their permits pulled. Hiring an unlicensed electrical contractor means insurance won’t cover a home fire; if such an incident occurred, you could lose all of your possessions.
Qualified and licensed electricians have years of experience. They’re required to take continuing education classes to keep updated on the ever-changing codes and safety protocols. They have the knowledge of what needs to be updated, and can help educate homeowners.
We focus on quality, code-compliant installations that exceed customer expectations. All of our prices are given in flat-rate options, so there are no surprises in price before the work begins or after it’s complete. If available, we’ll inform you and provide you with different options, products, or methods in order to help you meet your budget.
New products and code changes occur all the time. Our electricians take continuing education classes, learn new products, and study the most updated codes in order to benefit our customers with the safest installations.