If there are two words that summarize how most customers of Experts In Your Home regard electricity, those words would have to be “healthy fear.”
That's as it should be, for while electricity is a scientific wonder, even a task as straightforward as replacing a plug can go dangerously awry in inexperienced or careless hands.
This sense of healthy fear helps explain why customers often nervously ask our electricians, “Do you have the right tools for the job?”
Do they ever.
When you hire an electrician from Experts In Your Home for your next electrical job, you can do so with the full confidence that they possess both the technical expertise and the professional integrity to complete it with skill and proficiency. These are the real tools of their trade – and Experts insists on hiring only the very best.
First, Electricians are Students
Some Experts customers assume that electricians get all their training on the job – in other words, in people's homes and under the tutelage of a supervisor. In fact, this is a big part of an electrician's formal training, but it's only one part of it.
It takes about four years for most electricians to become licensed by the state – about as long as it takes many people to complete a formal college education. Before they can take the state licensing exam, electricians-in-training are known as apprentices. During their apprenticeship, they attend 144 hours of classes on electrical topics and log 2,000 hours of on-the-job training each year. Alternatively, some students prefer to complete their classroom work first at either a community college or technical school.
Electricians Become Experts
Some electricians choose to pursue the designation of “master electrician” – similar to the pursuit of a master's degree or an MBA in the business world. To sit for this exam, an electrician must have either a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or seven years of experience as a licensed electrician.
With or without the “master” designation, by the time an electrician joins the Experts team, he or she is technically savvy in the ways of:
- The rules and procedures outlined in the National Electrical Code, the so-called “electricians' Bible”
- The full complement of electricians' tools, including the trusty ohmmeter, oscilloscope and volt meter
- Most electrical projects, including switch and breaker repair, rewiring, electrical panel upgrades, indoor and outdoor light installation and planning electrical wiring for new construction
The Experts In Your Home Difference
While technical competence is vital, Experts In Your Home expects something more from the electricians it brings on board – a lot more. These special people must demonstrate tenacity and sharp critical thinking and problem solving skills to diagnose and troubleshoot electrical issues. For one reality eventually becomes a certainty in every electrician's life: no two homes are alike, and just when you're tempted to think, “I've seen everything there is,” a new electrical challenge presents itself. Experts electricians are prepared to unlock any electrical mystery, especially those found in many older homes.
To work for Experts In Your Home, electricians also must pass another type of test. We call it the “Experts character test.” Our electricians live and work by the values and practices of:
- Honesty and integrity
- Respect – for people and their homes
- Trustworthiness
- Dependability
- Conscientiousness
- Empathy and good listening skills
- Communication skills that transcend the basics of explaining what they're doing to include how they're completing an electrical task and why it's necessary
Before you undertake any electrical job on your own, you're smart to ask the same question that many people ask us: “Do you have the right tools for the job?” Experts In Your Home addressed this and many other questions in a previous article: “When is hiring an electrician absolutely necessary.” When you cannot reconcile your healthy fear, and you reach the conclusion that hiring an electrician is absolutely necessary, you'll call Experts In Your Home – and let our technically savvy and personally upstanding Chico electricians become “the experts in your home.”
