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Benefits of a standby generator
Home standby generators offer several key benefits that can significantly enhance your comfort, security, and convenience, especially during unexpected power outages. Here are some of the main advantages:
- Continuous Power Supply: A standby generator automatically kicks in when the power goes out, ensuring your home remains powered. This is crucial for maintaining essential appliances like refrigerators, heating and cooling systems, and medical equipment operational.
- Safety and Comfort: By keeping your lights, HVAC system, and security systems running, a standby generator helps maintain your living conditions and personal safety during power outages, protecting you from extreme temperatures and potential security vulnerabilities.
- Prevents Food Spoilage: With a standby generator, you don’t have to worry about the food in your fridge or freezer spoiling due to a lack of refrigeration, saving you from potential loss and inconvenience.
- Convenience: Unlike portable generators, standby generators offer the convenience of automatic operation and do not require manual setup or fueling during an outage. This means you can have peace of mind whether you're at home or away.
- Protects Your Home: Continuous power helps prevent damage that can occur when home systems fail. For instance, sump pumps will continue to operate, preventing flooding, and home security systems will remain active, deterring potential burglars.
- Increases Home Value: Installing a standby generator can be an attractive feature for potential homebuyers, potentially increasing your home's resale value.
- Peace of Mind: Perhaps one of the most significant benefits is the peace of mind that comes from knowing your home and loved ones are protected against the inconveniences and dangers of power outages.
What to expect when buying a generator from Affinity
1. Site visit – We come and gather information to properly size the generator for your home or office. We will make sure that there are no confliction of doors, windows or combustible structures in the way. At this stage we also will normally provide you with an estimate unless additional information is needed.
2. Permitting – The permitting process can be quick, or it may take several weeks depending on the county or municipality where the install is to occur. Once we have all the information from you it can take up to 5 weeks to get an approved permit back. Items we need you, as the owner, to supply is a copy of your site plan. Usually, you can find this with the paperwork from the title co. that did the closing on your house. If that cannot be found, we can draw a site plan of your property for the permit **(at no cost to you). Second you will need to sign and notarize a notice of commencement to be recorded at the county office. In order to avoid delaying the process, please locate your site plan upon approving the estimate.
3. Scheduling – Upon permit approval we will contact you to schedule a date for installation. By this time, we would have helped you get in contact with a local gas company (we work with many across the state) that will install and hook up the gas for you. We have you, as the owner, contract directly with the gas company because they will be the one servicing or refueling your tank. We will coordinate the install with the gas company, so they connect the gas promptly after we set and wire the generator.
4. Install Day – You, or an adult will need to be home. The crew will arrive in the morning and locate the placement of the generator on the site plan. They will verify that there are no confliction of doors, windows or combustible structures in the way. Once that is complete, they will go over the wiring with you, so you are aware of where there is going to be buried lines on your property. The power to the house will need to be interrupted for a few hours in order to install. If you are home the team will give you notice prior to shutting down the power so you may turn off sensitive electronics. The install process usually can be completed in one day, but some instances may require a second day. If a second day is needed, no worries, your power will be restored before we leave on the first day.
5. Orientation – After the install is completed, we will come out and go over, in detail, how the generator will work when there is a power outage. We will also answer any remaining questions you may have about the project, the generator, its maintenance, or operation.
6. Final Inspection – One final inspection is required on all generator installations and would be arranged by our office. The homeowner, or an adult, would have to be home to provide access for the inspector to complete their inspection.
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