Modern homes are full of sensitive electronics, and a single power surge can fry them all at once. Surges come from lightning, from the utility grid, and, surprisingly often, from large appliances inside your own home cycling on and off. A whole-house surge protector installed at your panel stops surges at the door, before they reach anything you own. Peak Property Electric installs them across the North Shore.
What a surge can cost you
It's not just the big lightning strike. Most surge damage comes from smaller, repeated surges that quietly shorten the life of everything with a circuit board, TVs, computers, LED lighting, appliances, furnaces, and air conditioners. Replacing even a few of those costs far more than protecting all of them. A whole-house protector is one of the highest-value upgrades you can make to a modern home.
Layered protection works best
- A whole-house surge protector at the main panel as the first line of defense
- Point-of-use protection at your most sensitive electronics
- Proper grounding, which surge protection depends on to work
- Protection for HVAC and large appliances that are expensive to replace
Whole-house surge protection only works on a properly grounded system, so if your grounding is old or incomplete, we'll address that too, often alongside a safety inspection.
