As parents, protecting the children is our number one priority. This is why every parent goes to extreme lengths to keep the house safe by childproofing the home and keeping the kids away from power outlets.
Unfortunately, all this protection will be for naught if there isn’t adequate anti-surge protection in the home. A lack of surge protectors can lead to electrocutions, fire incidents, and expensive damages.
If you want to make sure that your family is particularly safe from electrical hazards, the tips we’ve outlined here will ensure that.
Get Surge Protectors and Devices
Surge protectors are great at cutting off power to your appliances if the current gets too high or too low. So get them and plug in your valuable or expensive appliances like your TV, computers, expensive phones, and others in these protectors.
This is easily the least expensive way to protect your home from electrical surges. Although they’re limited in their capacity to protect the home from ultra-high voltage like lighting, they at least provide a decent level of protection against power surges or low voltage from the grid.
Get a Lighting Protector
Speaking of lightning, a vital home feature is a lightning protector. Most homes probably have this already, particularly if the homes are designed to be energy-efficient or situated in areas that are prone to lightning and storms.
If you’re not sure that you have it, go outside and check. A lighting protector is usually in the form of a metal strip with 2-3 spikes placed on the roof of the home and earthed properly.
This way, if there’s lightning that’s supposed to hit the house, it’ll attract it, channel it away from the home, and earth it. Done correctly, you may not even know that it did its job.
Disconnect All Plugged Appliances During Bad Weather
Storms and other bad weather events can cause power surges from the feeder stations of power providers. If your devices are plugged in during that time, they could get burned or fried by the surges.
The good news is most power stations often have at least one LV UK switchgear that helps regulate currents that go out to homes. So these may prevent power surges to some degree. But don’t take any chances.
Get a Whole Home Surge Protector System
If you can afford it, you should definitely get a surge protection system that covers the home completely. This will eliminate the need for individual surge protectors plugged into electrical sockets.
These surge protection systems do a fantastic job of protecting the home from large and small-scale power surges –including the millions of volts from lightning strikes. All you have to do is install the system on the electrical panel, and it will take care of the rest.
These systems are usually pricier, but they often pay for themselves over time. You can’t put a price on a system that protects your home from electrical fires, protects your family, and your expensive appliances.
But more realistically, having this installed will increase the value of your home so that when you want to sell, you’ll comfortably recoup your investment and more.
