If you’ve ever watched the show “Holmes on Homes” on HGTV, you’ve likely seen the problems associated with old or faulty wiring.  Mike Holmes tends to get very agitated by safety issues, and for good reason.  Each year, over 40,000 homes suffer fire damage due to home electrical problems.  These electrical fires account for hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries.  And what’s the main culprit?  Old wiring!

If you live in a classic home built before 1940, chances are you have old wiring in the house.  You may have knob-and-tube or Romex wiring, both of which can become brittle over time.  The insulation dries out and starts to crumble, causing the inner wire to become exposed. The cloth insulation around the wire deteriorates with age and eventually becomes unsafe.

But perhaps one of the biggest threats of Romex and knob-and-tube wiring is that these types of wires aren’t grounded.  That means if one of your appliances shorts out, you could become the path to the ground for the electricity.

Even if your home is only 20 or 30 years old, you could still experience electrical problems at home due to a lack of capacity.  Most homes built more than 10 years ago are not designed to handle the amount of electronics we use today.  Think about it:  if your house was built in 1980, it was built before home PCs and laptops and HDTVs and surround sound and all of the other toys and gadgets we use today.  These appliances can draw a lot of power, and your current electrical wiring may not be up to the task.

If you own one of the one million houses in the DFW area that’s more than 20 years old, it’s a good idea to have a licensed electrician come out and take a look at the wiring.  He or she can make sure that your house will be safe and productive for many years.

pursue electric lights.

A Timeless StyleIn the post-Victorian era, brass chandeliers shimmered with crystal drops and porcelain lamps were embellished with colorful floral themes. For members of the British aristocracy, the early 20th century was a time of elegance, luxury and opulence.

A quick glance through the latest designer catalogs are ample evidence that the decor of previous eras are still hugely popular. The style can easily be recreated with antique brass desk lamps. In contemporary homes, an elegantly crafted modern light fixture can give you the look of the most treasured antique.

picture light would also do the trick.

They are lights that rely on LEDs (a light-emitting diode) as their source of illumination. In a majority of the cases, the lighting stems from either a fluorescent or an incandescent light bulb. LED lights have a good reputation for being a lot more efficient than traditional light bulbs, and they can also be inserted into more traditional lamps and light sources, where they may be utilized as other regular light bulbs.

If you are a consumer in the market for some lights, you should understand that there are a bunch of benefits that the consumer will obtain by choosing these kinds of lights over other sorts of lights available on the market. For one thing, these sorts of lights are known to consume a lot less energy than other kinds of light bulbs, and they are known to be as much as 300 percent more efficient than a CFL or a compact fluorescent light. In addition, LED lights are up to 1000 percent more efficient when compared to an incandescent light bulb. They come with an extremely long life, relatively speaking, which translates to around 50,000 hours of usage at approximately 50 percent of their initial power, according to the Wise Geek website, anyway. If you want to work this out in terms that are more practical and applicable to everyday life, you can think of it in this way: This will equal around 8 hours per day for some 13 years at approximately 70 percent of power. By way of comparison, you should realize that the average 60-watt incandescent light bulb will only last around 1000 hours!

Furthermore, in terms of pure safety, LED lights can’t be beat. Here is an example of that. Consider this: These types of lights come without any toxins such as mercury or other unsafe materials. In addition, they are also known to be free from any emission of ultraviolet or UV heat, thereby failing to attract any insects, which is very much a welcome piece of news to people who are troubled by pesky insects! Further, these sorts of light bulbs fail to produce a lot of heat, meaning they are cool to the touch.

Of course, not everything with these kinds of lights is advantageous. For example, the price tag on LED lights is quite high, and they are known to be heat sensitive. This means that these sorts of lights can either fade or stop working altogether if they are not utilized with either a consistent or a steadfast current. Finally, utilizing them as a part of room lighting may be unbeneficial, too, since they are meant to be utilized more for room lighting situations.