Take Charge of Your Home’s Power Needs So You’re Never Left In The Dark

Anytime severe weather comes in there’s that lingering fear that a strong gust of wind or a stray lightning bolt can damage the electrical grid near you and plunge your normally bright and comfy home into impenetrable darkness. While you’re fumbling around trying to find candles or a flashlight, the food in your fridge is already starting to go bad, and depending on the season the temperature in your home is climbing or dropping. Your kids’ phones are out of power, you have no idea when things will be fixed and you’re missing the big game. It’s a problem!

Wouldn’t it be nice if you never had to worry about any of that taking place? Wouldn’t it be great to know that the worst thing you’d experience is a brief flicker before everything is up and powered again? 

It’s possible with a whole home generator. 

These amazing devices are designed to take over your home’s power needs at a moment’s notice, making sure your lights remain on, your fridge keeps humming and your kids stay happy. Read on to find out more about the benefits whole house generators offer! After all, Santa’s always looking for ideas…

1) Tied With A Bow – A Gift For Your Home

If a winter freeze comes in and ice drags down power lines, there’s nothing worse than having to trudge outside, drag out the portable generator, check the gas level, fill it up if needed, yank the pull start to get it going, then run power cables to it – all while freezing your jingle bells off. 

With a whole home generator, you’ll have none of that to worry about. It’s already tied into your home’s electrical system, so no need to run power cords and have them strung about the house. It’s also connected to your home’s gas line or to an exterior gas tank, so you don’t have to worry about refills. It’s permanently installed by your home, just like an HVAC unit, so you won’t have to tug it into place. Put simply – when you need power, you get it, and you don’t have to do anything but have yourself a holly jolly time.

2) Power For Everything – Even Your Christmas Lights

One drawback of a portable generator is that its power output is limited – you’ll only be able to run the essentials. That’s valuable of course, but wouldn’t you rather have your home operating the way it always does? A whole home unit generates enough juice to run everything in your home – appliances, heating, air conditioning, entertainment – and the beautiful twinkling lights on your tree. You won’t notice any drop in performance, so you won’t find yourself feeling like a Grinch when you miss your favorite shows.

3) Please Come On For Christmas

We mentioned above having to hook up the portable generator and tug on the pull start to get it going. But what if you weren’t there? What if your kids were home and didn’t know how to hook it up or get it going? You wouldn’t want to leave them in the dark. 

One of the best features of a whole home standby generator is that it takes care of everything. Since it’s tied into your home’s electrical system, it’s able to detect when there’s a loss of power and immediately start itself up. When it senses the power has been restored, it shuts itself down. You and your family don’t have to do a thing! It’s really that simple. 

4) Give The Gift That Keeps On Giving – The Gift of Safety

There are a couple of ways that a whole home generator can help keep your family safe. For one thing, when the power is out and the lights turn off, it can be daunting getting around your home to find backup sources of illumination, even if you’re familiar with every hallway, door or step. It’s all too easy to take a tumble down a flight of stairs or worse, bring a foot down full force on a Lego. Keeping the lights on will keep those dangers at bay. 

For another, a lot of homes are outfitted with modern security systems that include automatic lighting, doorbell cameras and alarms – all equipment which requires power to operate. A loss of power would be the perfect time for the Wet Bandits to strike your home and steal your presents. You don’t need a house full of booby traps to hold them back – just the generator.

5)Have A Happy, Healthy Holiday

One of the first things people think about when the power goes out is what will happen to the food in the fridge. Keeping the fridge on so the food doesn’t spoil is definitely important, but there are life-saving advantages as well. 

If you have any sort of home medical equipment that runs on power – CPAP machines, home dialysis, respirators, oxygen generators – you need that power flowing so they can do their job. If conditions are bad enough to knock the power grid offline, you definitely don’t want to have to risk the road to take someone to a hospital. A whole home generator can remove this worry for good.

Merry Christmas To All, And To All Heat And Light

Don’t let unexpected outages ruin your family’s Yuletide. Give Comfort First a call at 800-279-4822 or send us a message online today to learn more about how a whole home generator can transform your holidays!