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Are Lightning Strikes Affecting Your Home?
Lightning strikes can cause significant damage to several parts of your home or office and with the right type of lightning strike evaluation in Ocala, you can check for damage if your home or business has been hit.
Lightning Strikes vs. Power Surges
Lightning strikes happen because of severe weather that creates electromagnetic fields around the strike. This produces an electrical storm, in essence, with too much voltage. When lightning hits that extra voltage finds its way into your home via your electrical cables and wiring, causing significant destruction.
This is very similar to a power surge but it’s much more intense. Power surges come from small, dramatic increases in voltage that typically only last fractions of a second, coming from things like heavy duty appliances that are using too much energy, work by your utility company, even a minor storm.
With a lightning strike though, the voltage is substantially larger than any other source which means the damage can be too.
With Service Minds Mister Sparky, we want to make sure your home or office is safe and that all damage is properly rectified.
What to Expect from Our Ocala, FL Lightning Strike Evaluation
When you call our licensed electricians in Ocala, FL following a lightning strike, you call reliable, professional team members who are here to help.
Assessing the Damage
We start by assessing the damage to your electrical system. This can include physical signs of damage such as:
- Burned or melted wires
- Melted circuit breakers
- Smoke marks on the electrical panel
- Sooty deposits around the outlets
We will also check the functionality of your breakers if we decide it is safe enough to do so. This process can help us determine if the damage done was confined to a specific part of your system, or the whole thing.
We can evaluate the damage to other parts of your system including appliances, outlets, switches, light fixtures, and more.
If you have fuses, and they were blown during the strike, that might have helped your other appliances, but you will need fuse replacements.
Recommending Repairs or Replacements
Once we have assessed the damage, our local electricians will go over our list of recommended repairs and/or replacements.
Our goal is to keep your home as safe as possible by only recommending things that are absolutely necessary to bring your home or office back up to code, to keep you safe, and to get your electrical system working the way it should.
This might extend to things like:
- Outlet installation to replace those that were damaged
- Whole house rewiring if the damage affected the entire system
- Electrical panel installation and circuits
We never recommend services that aren’t essential to bringing your home back up to where it was.
Working with Insurers after a Lightning Strike
We know that a homeowner’s insurance policy can be a tricky thing to navigate. If you happen to have a policy that includes lightning strikes as a covered event, something you can verify with your insurance provider, we can help you work with your insurance provider during the evaluation process.
Many insurance providers want to prioritize your safety and might ask for a consultation with licensed electricians to check for any hidden damage and determine the safety and operation of your electrical system.
We can provide official damage reports where necessary and check for things like electrical anomalies or melted wires, with documented losses and repairs.
Call us today to discuss how we can help you work with your insurance provider after a lightning strike.
Don’t Wait for the Next Storm – Schedule Your Evaluation Today
Lightning doesn’t have to spell disaster for your home. With Service Minds Mister Sparky of Ocala, you can rest easy knowing that your home is prepared and protected. Let us help you keep your home safe from the unexpected.
Contact Service Minds Mister Sparky of Ocala Today – Ocala’s On-Time Electrician!