Stay Prepped and Powered with Whole-Home Backup Power
Power outages are inconvenient at best and can be dangerous at worst. A whole-home generator can change your household’s relationship with outages, ensuring you keep everything running when the grid goes down. Explore how these systems work and why this might be a great addition to your home for comfort and peace of mind.
Understanding How a Whole-Home Generator Functions
A whole-home generator is a complete upgrade from a portable generator. The unit is permanently installed outside your house and typically runs on natural gas or propane for consistent energy that lasts for hours, days or potentially even weeks.
Instead of having to manually set it up and refill the fuel each time you use it, a whole-home generator is linked to your home’s electrical system with a transfer switch, enabling it to kick in automatically following a power outage. After the utility power is restored, the generator then shuts off, and the transfer switch switches your home back to the municipal grid. This seamless transition ensures you don’t have to worry about being left without light or critical systems during an outage.
The Advantages of Installing a Backup Generator
Whole-home generators offer multiple advantages. Here are 10 strong reasons to think about investing in one for your household:
- Readiness for severe weather: Thunderstorms, blizzards and other severe weather can shut off power for days. By adding a whole-home generator, your key systems like lighting or appliances stay up and running both through and after the storm. Staying prepared ensures you aren’t left searching for essentials during a storm-related crisis.
- Easy, hands-free home power: A whole-home generator provides continuous, automatic power without the need for manual setup or frequent refueling. Unlike portable generators, which require you to be present to start them and keep them running, a whole-home generator activates within seconds of an outage and keeps running as long as it’s fueled. This hands-free operation ensures your home stays powered without any effort on your part.
- Reassurance: The stress of unexpected power outages can be overwhelming. With a whole-home generator, you have the assurance that your home’s essential systems are operational. You also experience normalcy and safety during an outage, which greatly improves your family’s comfort with extended power losses.
- No income disruption: If you’re a remote worker, losing power can cause missed deadlines and lower productivity. A backup generator keeps your office electronics running. As long as the internet stays online, you can keep working and stay in touch with colleagues and clients.
- Avoid food spoilage: Food spoilage is a frustrating (and smelly) consequence of losing power. A whole-home generator keeps your fridge and freezer running, preserving your food and preventing waste. This benefit is especially needed during extended blackouts, allowing you to keep food fresh and stopping you from having to restock everything.
- No frozen pipes: A power outage in the middle of winter may shut down your heating. Even natural gas furnaces use an electronic ignition, making them useless in an outage. As the temperature gets colder and colder, frozen and/or bursting pipes become a real possibility. Whole-home generators keep your heating safe to maintain the indoor temperature and prevent costly water damage from burst pipes.
- Protection for electrical equipment: A particularly violent power outage could damage electronic devices, appliances and even the wiring itself. A whole-home generator provides a consistent power supply, protecting devices from sudden power loss and subsequent surges when electricity is restored. For an extra layer of protection from power surges, think about installing a whole-home surge protector at the same time.
- Power for any medical devices: If anyone in your household depends on some kind of medical equipment, a power outage can be literally life-threatening. A whole-home generator ensures that vital medical equipment like oxygen machines or ventilators remain operational through an outage.
- Maintain HVAC functionality: Maintaining a consistent temperature in your home fosters the comfort and well-being of your entire household, namely children, seniors and any pets. By installing a whole-home generator, your heating and cooling stays functional even during severe weather, staying safe from heatstroke or hypothermia.
- Boost in property value: The certainty of having power during outages is a highly desirable home feature. As such, installing a whole-home generator makes your property more attractive on the housing market and could even enable a higher asking price.
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