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Posted by Randy Smith on Wed, Aug 04, 2010 @ 09:54 AM
Do it yourselfers may be able to replace a light switch. Make sure that the power is turned off, and not just the light but all wires that go thru the box. The main is a good idea! then unscrew the plate and switch. Please do not take apart the wires behind the switch! If there are two wires you can take them off and it does not matter where the wires go on the new switch. If there are three wires, please reconsider and call us today at 763-560-5600! To go on is a little complicated and there could be a lot of different ways to wire it. I am surprised to find how many people go on and try to repair something that can affect the voltage to your sensitive electronic equipment and burn something up! Call us at 763-560-5600
Posted by Randy Smith on Wed, Aug 04, 2010 @ 08:38 AM
Randy’s Electric in Maple Grove Minnesota always leaves behind a survey card and gets great responses. We just got one that said “very good service, the electrician went above and beyond what was expected” and the tech wore floor savers to protect her floor.
We get tons of comments because we want to be our clients lifetime electrician. We always strive for excellence in installing and repairing outlets, switches, lights, fixtures, circuit breakers and ceiling fans. Call today to get on the schedule! 763.560.5600
Posted by Randy Smith on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 @ 09:03 AM
Omega-H Real Estate Inspection Service is your trusted source for all of your home inspection needs. Owned and operated by Randy Hagemo, a trusted professional who believes that honesty and integrity are the cornerstone of any successful business and that ethical standards are not situational and are not up for interpretation or negotiation. Randy works with home buyers, investors, and sellers like yourself who are looking for information you can trust regarding the condition of the property you are looking to buy or sell. A thorough inspection by Omega-H Inspection Service significantly minimizes the potential for unexpected surprises, expense, and not to mention the frustration that can occur if significant issues are missed. Give me the honor of being your home inspector and I will guarantee you my very best effort to inspect your home with due diligence and to earn your trust and your referrals.
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15236 40th Ave N, Plymouth, MN 55446
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Posted by Randy Smith on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 @ 09:05 AM
I get a lot of questions from people who call. They find me on the BBB site or Angie’s List, so they know we are THE best electrician in town already! So they ask how much this will cost and describe for me a problem. But since I am not a mind reader or physic I can’t see what they see. So I send them an electrician, not a sales guy! We are not pushy or demanding. We are fully licensed, drug-free and back ground checked! Safe for your family! The electrician can tell how much it will cost before he does the job and if there is a problem and it takes longer than he thought, that is our tough luck! We stick to the price. But please, I can not tell what it will cost over the phone! Some Minnesota electricians will guess, and low-ball it to get in your house. We have an up-front price system so you know what the cost is all the way along. So there are no surprises at the end. We install outlets, switches, ceiling fans, smoke detectors and fix them all too.
Posted by Randy Smith on Fri, Jan 22, 2010 @ 09:06 AM
Thoughts for new home buyers
Congratulations on your new home! Now that you have found the right house, maybe it’s time to make some adjustments to make it fit you and your family even better!
There are lots of improvements that may be wise spending on your electrical system. Once your furniture is placed you often find that the lighting may need some work. Perhaps it is too dark in your kitchen, bath or laundry room. Recessed lights can offer added light for dark spots, or fluorescent lights may brighten up dark corners. These are all personal preferences, but also good investments. Improvements like these are not throwing money out the window, but money that is in your home and you will get back in equity! In the meantime, you get to enjoy the light!
If your home is older, it may have fuses. These are way old school! Breakers and service upgrades are also a wise investment. Running to the hardware store in the middle of the night to replace a blown fuse is on the list of things I’m against. We offer a lifetime guarantee on our breaker panels, call for a quote!
Smoke and c/o detectors are not only a good idea for your families safety, but they are required in MN. We offer specials on upgrading these often. Smoke detectors that are more than 8 years old have lost most of all of their effectiveness, and it is recommended to replace them.
There are lots of things you may want to do to personalize your space, and we can help you with any of them! Give us a call, we answer the phone! 763-560-5600
Posted by Randy Smith on Fri, Jan 22, 2010 @ 09:00 AM
Value!
Cheap is NEVER the most cost effective method of doing anything! When people do electrical repairs or improvements by themselves, or worse, hire an unprofessional contractor, it ALWAYS costs more to get it done right! It has to be done all over again…take it all apart and do it right. We do it right the first time, and that is good value!
What kind of paper towels do you buy? If you spend an extra $ .50, you get twice the effectiveness of the cheap kind. It lasts twice as long, for just a little more of up-front cost. This is like hiring a professional electrical contractor. The upfront cost may be slightly higher but the long term value is way better.
Sometimes people call and ask what we charge per hour. A per hour cost does not tell you what your overall cost will be for your project…people who work by the hour may work slowly! We give you an up-front price, so no matter how long it takes the price does not change! We think this is way fairer for the customer.
Think of buying a car. What I want is the least cost per mile. This would include the gas mileage, repairs, insurance rates and lifetime of the vehicle. Electricity is the same way! If you want a quality job that will last you don’t want an inept person putting in shoddy parts…it won’t last! Use a pro that doesn’t cut important corners! Call Randy’s Electric today at 763-560-5600
Posted by Randy Smith on Thu, Jul 23, 2009 @ 09:08 AM
I remember the day, walking out of a store at 9 pm with my (way)-better half. My business phone rang, and I answered it like I always do. It was a client that we have worked for 2 or 3 times in the past. She said “Can you come over tomorrow?” I asked her what the hurry was, but yes. She said her best friend was standing in her kitchen with her, and she wanted my client to call right away. Now my curiosity was way up, and I asked what happened. My clients best friend-let’s call her Jane-believed in smoke detectors. She had battery smoke detectors installed everywhere in her house. She tested them religiously, and kept spare batteries in her kitchen. Jane thought she was protected, and was being very responsible. This day proved her wrong. Jane and her husband were sitting in their living room-picture a rambler with a side door by the kitchen with a basement stairway with a door-and the basement door was closed. They always kept the door closed. They were watching TV together, a special time of spousal bonding! Suddenly, someone smelled something! Smoke! They looked around and finally opened the door to the basement-most fires start in the basement. When they did smoke and flames shot up at them! They could then hear the smoke detectors in the basement going off. If they could have heard them earlier, they maybe could have put the fire out, or called the Fire Department, or gotten a few more of their belongings. Jane and her husband grabbed their purse, wallet, shoes and jackets and got out of the house. It was a total loss. The fire was so hot it consumed the house in mere minutes from when it was discovered. This is a true story, that happened right here in the metro area! So-Jane had my client call me and we went over and installed interconnected smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. These detectors are wired together so if one senses trouble it sets them all off. In new homes this is code and one is required to be in every bedroom and one outside each bedroom, and one on each level. Just think-if you sleep on the second floor of your house, will you ever hear a smoke detector going off in the basement? In older homes we suggest at least one on each level that are connected together. It doesn’t hurt to bring it up to current code-How much could you lose? What is the value of saving a life or your irreplaceable pictures and heirlooms? It is just a good investment! We can help you decide what is best for your home-give us a call at 763-560-5600 or 952-474-1002.
Posted by Randy Smith on Wed, Jul 08, 2009 @ 09:10 AM
Rewire-A misunderstood term! To rewire a house is mostly thought of as removing all the wires, switches, plugs, outlets, dimmers, lights and ceiling fans and replacing the wires with new wires. This is not usually the case. To do that in a home would cost from $2000- to $10,000-!! Most of the time the wires that are already there are fine. Sometimes we see the wires at light boxes are old, brittle and the insulation is falling off. This is because heat rises, and people put too big a bulb in the light fixture. Bulbs create heat and the heat eventually dries out the wires in the ceiling box and they become brittle. Replacing light fixtures or fans on these boxes becomes dangerous, and you should call a professional to see if you should replace these wires. 763.560.5600! Outlets also sometimes create heat because of poor connections to the device. When you wire an outlet you can push the wires into the back of the outlet. These push-in connections WILL eventually become loose. Not some of them, ALL OF THEM! This is why we use the screw down connection to connect the wires to the device. Properly done, these will never become loose. This is one place that you can see the difference in electricians. We don’t cut corners at Randy’s Electric! We have a lifetime guarantee on our workmanship, because outlets we install don’t come loose!
Now-rewiring a house! First we make sure everything is safe. If you have places in your electrical system where heat is being created we want to stop that right away! Then we repair broken outlets and switches so that everything is in working order. Then if an outlet is close to water, in an unfinished basement, outside or in a garage we replace them to GFCI. This type of outlet protects people from shocks. The GFCI will sense if the power leaving the outlet is different than the power coming back-a circuit-it will trip off. This device saves over 500 lives a year! Next we add outlets in each room to meet the minimum housing code. This is a city by city code, and they count outlets differently. Minneapolis counts a switch and a light as an outlet, and St. Paul doesn’t. So in a small room you only need 1 outlet, in a room 120 feet square you need two, etc. Some cities have no requirements, but usually that is when they are newer towns, and the homes are mostly newer. We also try to talk to people about the smoke detector situation in their home. Some older homes have no 120 volt smokes-they use only battery. We think this is short-sighted to say the least. In new homes the code is one smoke on each level, one in each bedroom and one outside of each bedroom. They are all interconnected. That means that if one smoke smells trouble, it sets them all off. This will wake everyone in the house and SAVE LIVES! I know of people who had a fire in their basement and battery smokes going off in the basement but couldn’t hear it over the TV. So please interconnect at least one on each level of your home, it is not worth taking a chance with!
There are many things to look at when you talk about updating your electrical system. Please call us at Randy’s Electric and we can help you decide which things are worth doing. 763.560.5600
Posted by Randy Smith on Fri, Jun 12, 2009 @ 09:11 AM
Electric Repairs
At Randy’s Electric we are experts at all electrical repairs. We fix shorts, blown fuses, light switches, GFCI outlets, ceiling fans, underground wires, or any electric repair you may need. People call and ask us if we do…..Whatever it is the answer is yes! We can do it! Call us today at 763-560-5600 or 952-494-1002 and get on the schedule! We have the least expensive up-front-pricing system there is out there. And I’ve been doing this for 30 years and have found the best way to price everything on your home or office! We handle repairs of new and old wiring, little problems or big! Our licensed electricians come to your house ready to do your electric repair in one convenient trip! We do electric repairs in Maple Grove, Plymouth, Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, Osseo, Dayton, Coon Rapids, Ham Lake, Ramsey, Andover, Anoka, Champlin, Hamel, Minnetonka, Edina, Eden Prairie and Wayzata. Other locations also, so call and ask! We do electric repairs for general contractors, service providers, apartment buildings or anyone who needs any electrical service. Another question that is asked about is funny, burning plastic smells. Call us right away if you smell electrical burning smells! We can make your home safe. Check your smoke detectors at least once a month, and be sure they are interconnected so if one gets set off, they will all go off together. That way everyone has time to get out of the home safely.