Green Electric & Automation

UPDATE: COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) Updated: NOVEMBER 16 2020 Green Electric & Automation's electrical services are open.... For all inquires, please notify us via text or phone: 519-608-4062 Social distancing and safe handling practices will remain in place. We will update this page as well as our website www.greenelectric-automation.ca as necessary to keep the public and our clients informed. Green Electric & Automation is an electrical contractor located in Lakeside Ontario.

UPDATE: COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) Updated: April 13 2020 Green Electric & Automation's phone lines, email and electrical maintenance services remain open.... All service requests will be processed. If you require emergency electrical service and PRIOR to any work site visitation you will be asked: That if you or any other occupants of your home or business are feeling unwell to please notify us via text or phone: 519-608-4062 All non essential electrical services to our service areas will be either limited or paused and biosecurity measures will be enforced. This effectively means that we will continue electrical maintenance but no new electrical construction will be authorized until further notice. This precaution as well as others have been put into place as of March 23 2020 for worker and public safety. We will update this page as necessary to keep the public and our clients informed. What should I do if I have recently traveled and feel unwell? If you or your family have recently traveled to a country affected by coronavirus and have symptoms such as fever, cough, or shortness of breath, please call TeleHealth Ontario at 1-866-797-0000 or your local health unit for advice and guidance. For an up-to-date list of affected countries, and advice for travelers, please visit the MLHU or SWPH websites. If it is necessary to visit your healthcare provider, please call ahead to let your doctor’s office know about your travel history and symptoms. This will give them time to prepare to see you quickly and use proper infection control. We will update this page as necessary to keep the public and clients informed. Your SAFETY is important to us. Green Electric & Automation

UPDATE: COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) Updated: JULY 1 2020 Green Electric & Automations electrical services are open.... For all inquires, please notify us via text or phone: 519-608-4062 Social distancing and safe handling practices will remain in place. We will update this page as well as our website www.greenelectric-automation.ca as necessary to keep the public and our clients informed. Green Electric & Automation is an electrical contractor located in Lakeside Ontario.

UPDATE: COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) Updated: April 13 2020 Green Electric & Automations phone lines, email and electrical maintenance services remain open.... All service requests will be processed. If you require emergency electrical service and PRIOR to any work site visitation you will be asked: That if you or any other occupants of your home or business are feeling unwell to please notify us via text or phone: 519-608-4062 All non essential electrical services to our service areas will be either limited or paused and biosecurity measures will be enforced. This effectively means that we will continue electrical maintenance but no new electrical construction will be authorized until further notice. This precaution as well as others have been put into place as of March 23 2020 for worker and public safety. We will update this page as necessary to keep the public and our clients informed. What should I do if I have recently traveled and feel unwell? If you or your family have recently traveled to a country affected by coronavirus and have symptoms such as fever, cough, or shortness of breath, please call TeleHealth Ontario at 1-866-797-0000 or your local health unit for advice and guidance. For an up-to-date list of affected countries, and advice for travelers, please visit the MLHU or SWPH websites. If it is necessary to visit your healthcare provider, please call ahead to let your doctors office know about your travel history and symptoms. This will give them time to prepare to see you quickly and use proper infection control. We will update this page as necessary to keep the public and clients informed. Your SAFETY is important to us. Green Electric & Automation

KEEP YOUR OUTDOOR LIGHTS ON! At the recent Zorra Community Policing Committee meeting we discussed the recent influx of break ins and thefts. One of the proble...ms identified was how dark the village can be at night. OPP recommended keeping your outdoor lights on at night. If you have not already, switch to LED bulbs. With the energy savings, keeping them on over night is not a strain on your bill or the environment. When OPP do night patrols, they can only see what is visible. A well lit area is a hard one to sneak around on and check for unlocked vehicles or bikes. Next time you are out after dark, take note of how safe it feels in areas where homes do not have ourdoor lights on vs stretches with lights on. What a difference! This is ONE way that we can improve safety in our village. Lets make it harder for them to get what they are after! *Dont leave valuables in your vehicles. *Lock your vehicles. *Dont leave bikes and other items out and unlocked. See more

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NEW ARTICLES NOW POSTED https://www.greenelectric-automation.ca/keeping-your-home-/ https://www.greenelectric-automation.ca/requirements-for-p/... Teaser. Renovating your Kitchen. Pro Tips & Tricks. This one is for the Ladies but is about your men. As a business owner I never want to reveal the secret sauce to what makes my business successful compared to my competition. But sometimes my biggest competition is my customers! Read on this teaser to find out! 1. Ignoring layout. K.I.S.S - Keep it simple stupid. - Functional Layouts are best kept nice and simple. Budgets skyrocket and people get upset when they realize how much cost goes into changing an existing Kitchen layout. Electrical and plumbing is expensive to move & redo. Especially in an older home where there may not be wall or ceiling access to do the work without opening up drywall/plaster, removing cabinets, trim, patching, painting... etc. There are times when starting with a blank slate and complete gutting make sense but often a simple refresh or retrofit is all that is really needed to achieve that "eye sore to wow! look". For the sake of cost vs function. Ask yourself do I need to: -modernize to get the latest trends - needs vs. cost -change or move my current lighting to refresh -move or replace receptacle outlets - layout changes WHO does the cleaning around here? ME or HIM! - can we improve or simplify cleaning? YES you can! A Fix for dirty kitchen floors, crumbs everywhere, spills and stickys and lazy husbands that cant seem to every find a vacuum or broom. Visit my Web page or come back later to soak in the Facebook article juice for the full article. :) bookmark it, subscribe, Like... you wont want to miss it. https://www.greenelectric-automation.ca/requirements-for-p/ https://www.greenelectric-automation.ca/keeping-your-home-/

Do you have a old electrical fuse panel in your home that you would like advice on replacing? I invite you to check out a article I have written on getting a old electrical fuse panel changed. In this article you will learn when it makes sense to keep your old panel and when it doesnt. It will also provide some insight into the future about why hooking up that next appliance, hot tub, entertainment system... etc is probably a bad idea. Click on the link below and l...earn about the pros and cons to replacing a old electrical fuse panel. https://www.greenelectric-automation.ca/should-i-upgrade-a/ Dont forget to SHARE this post with family and friends! https://www.greenelectric-automation.ca We have a broad service region consisting of Woodstock, Ingersoll, St Marys, Embro, Lakeside, Tavistock, Stratford, New Hamburg, Baden and Surrounding area.

Make Aluminium Wiring safe in your Home. Aluminum wiring was commonly used in houses created in the 60s and 70s because of the high cost of copper. Special precautions and wiring methods must be followed when working with aluminum wiring within your homes branch circuits. Only AL-CU marked devices are permitted to be wired directly to aluminium conductors. Failure to follow this you run the risk of creating a fire hazard. Although aluminum wiring can be ma...de safe the danger is in mixing devices (such as receptacles and switches) that are rated for copper wiring with aluminum wiring. The dissimilar metals cause high resistance connections which lead to a connection getting hot and the inevitable failure of the termination. In some cases this can be linked to fires caused by improperly rated devices or connections that werent properly made tight. For these reasons working with aluminum wiring in your home should not be considered DIY friendly. It is best to consult an experienced electrician so you can get the full picture and cost to replacing your wiring or renovating your home. For those looking for a more in depth explanation on aluminum wiring please check out my blog on my website. https://www.greenelectric-automation.ca/how-to-fix-aluminu/

Bad weather may have you inside your home where it is warm and safe but have you considered the importance to protecting your homes entire electrical system with a Whole Home Surge Protection system? In severe storms your electrical system can fluctuate in voltage. This can damage electronics and home appliances. To protect against these voltage fluctuations it is recommended to have whole home surge protection. The surge protection device can be easily and affordably installed in your main electrical panel. For more information please click the link. https://www.greenelectric-automation.ca/whole-home-surge-p/

Here is an interesting article taken from ESAs website on RBO (Risk-based Oversight) and changes that will be coming in the future to how electrical inspections will be carried out and when you will or will not see an inspector. To summarize, this means that just because a permit for electrical work was taken out for a job does not mean a visit from an inspector will occur. Fees will still apply regardless of if the inspector does a work site inspection or not. What is... RBO - Risk-based Oversight? ESA is moving to a risk-based approach for electrical wiring by 2020. This means ESA will spend more effort on higher risk electrical wiring work, and less effort on lower risk work, without compromising safety. Risk-based Oversight means that ESA will use risk criteria to determine what wiring work requires a site visit. Permits will have a risk level assigned to it based on: who does the installation work what the installation is where the installation is All high risk work must be inspected, and medium and low risk work will be subject to selective inspection. That is, for every two, three, five, or ten installations, one will have a physical site visit by an inspector but this ratio is still to be determined. Why is ESA moving to a Risk Based Approach? We know you would like it to be easier to do business with us. We believe selective inspection and a risk based approach can help address your scheduling concerns as it creates opportunities for ESA to keep you better informed as to when an inspector will or wont be coming to visit a site. This also means ESA will be able to focus on the work that poses the greatest safety risk to Ontarians, including the investigation of work done by unlicensed contractors. When will I see this in the field? We anticipate that Risk-based Oversight will be in field by 2020. Were still determining how it could work and testing certain parts of the risk-based approach. Weve also gathered information from LECs across the province in Town Hall meetings to determine how this change could potentially affect their businesses to ensure the rollout is as smooth as possible. information was taken from https://www.esasafe.com/about-esa/stakeholder-engagement/rbo

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Reno season is coming! The following is some information on Aluminum Wiring and what you need to know before you start your new home project. This post was generated to address some of the concerns in regards to Aluminum wiring and the safety aspects associated with having such wiring in your home, or your rental property or maybe your a parent worried about your kids or your a friend of someone that has an older home... Whatever the situation, ESA has is a good ar...Continue reading

Electrical Safety Authority Warns Consumers of Potential Electrical Inspection Scam in Southwestern Ontario MISSISSAUGA, February 1, 2018 - The Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) has received reports that consumers in the Hamilton, St. Catharines and Cambridge areas have been contacted by representatives of a company notifying them that a mandatory electrical inspection is required at their household. A similar scam was reported in other areas of the province including the G...reater Toronto Area in previous months. These calls and visits are not from the Electrical Safety Authority. The Electrical Safety Authority does not call to set up inspections or ask for personal information if no recent electrical work has been done in your home. The Electrical Safety Authority is Ontarios electrical safety regulator and is the only organization authorized by the Ontario Government to enforce electrical safety regulations such as the Ontario Electrical Safety Code and conduct electrical inspections in homes for this purpose. If you receive a communication about electrical inspections and believe it to be a scam, do not provide any personal information and report it to Consumer Protection Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/page/report-scam-or-fraud. The Electrical Safety Authority is reminding consumers to take precautions before allowing anyone claiming to be an electrical inspector into their homes. If you are approached at the door by someone claiming to be an electrical inspector, here are the steps you can take: Electrical Safety Authority Inspectors will arrive in a vehicle marked with ESAs logo. Look for it. Electrical Safety Authority Inspectors carry photo identification. Ask to see it. Consumers who are unsure, or have questions or concerns about electrical inspections, are encouraged to contact the Electrical Safety Authority at 1-877-ESA-SAFE (372-7233) between the hours of 7 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday. Information about the Electrical Safety Authoritys permit and inspection process can be found at esasafe.com. See more

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