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Home Owner Maintenance Tip
We enjoy trying to make sure that your home stays your most valuable asset. One of the best ways we know to help, is to pass along some simple maintenance tips that most people don’t know could save thousands of dollars. Main Electrical Panel There are two things you should know regarding your main electrical panel. 1. You should know where your electrical panel is located in case the electricity needs to be shut of in an emergency, or if a breaker trips and you need to reset it. 2. Do not obstruct access to your main electrical panel by building shelves or storing items in front of it. This is a code violation. By opening the panel door you gain access to the circuit breakers or fuses. The circuit breakers are inside the panel and a lever is used to turn them to the "off " or "on" position. A pole circuit breaker is located on top of the panel and is labeled "main". This controls the power to the circuit breakers underneath it. Normally, there are stickers by each breaker or a list of breakers is adhered to the inside of the panel door. This identifies the circuit served by an individual circuit breaker. If cases where there is a panel with a fuse box, there are screw in fuses, not circuit breakers, in this case the function of the electrical service panel is identical. Please feel free to forward this maintenance tip to your friends and/or family members so they too can maintain their real estate investment.
Lem McSpadden and Brian McSpadden "Your Property Consultants for Life"
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