Nobody likes feeling hot and uncomfortable while they are trying to take respite from the heat in the comfort of their own home or when they are trying to focus on their work in an office building. While you may be tempted to crank up the air conditioner in an attempt to stay cool, you could literally end up spending hundreds of dollars by overworking your air conditioning unit. What can you do? Suffer in the heat or throw tons of cash at the electric bill?

Before you make any rash decisions, realize there is another option—a ceiling fan. A cost-saving measure to help keep you comfortable can be achieved with the help of an electrician. Burbank home and business owners can benefit from installing a fan to help circulate the air in a room and prevent that hot, stale feeling that tends to envelope you when the temperatures are soaring outside.

A ceiling fan is an energy efficient way to help keep the air circulating, which automatically makes you feel cooler. Using a fan to stir the air can help cut down on the need for the air conditioner. The slight breeze the fan produces is very soothing. You will want to discuss the various options and fan sizes with your electrician. Burbank residents can call The Electric Connection to help the pick the right fan for their needs and schedule an installation.

It isn’t just the hot summer months that benefit from a ceiling fan. In the winter, the fan can be turned to spin in the opposite direction to help circulate the warm air by pushing it down and pulling the cold air up. You can choose to install one fan in the main living areas, or install several fans throughout the home or office to keep the air steadily moving. The friendly team at Electric Connection is ready to serve you.

We offer bucket truck or as some call boom truck work for Des Moines, Ankeny, West Des Moines and all surrounding communities.  Or bucket truck crew is available 24 hours a day for your electrical emergencies.  Our bucket trucks are fully stocked with most major components for a quick repair to minimize your down time.

Do you have a parking lot light that needs repaired, re lamped, or re ballasted?  Our bucket truck can service your parking lot light with just a phone call.  We can repair most parking lot lights with the supplies on hand.

Would you like to replace or upgrade your current parking lot lights?  Our bucket truck crew can replace your old mercury vapor, or high pressure sodium lights with new energy efficient long lasting LED’s.  The LED parking lot lights our extremely energy efficient when compared to the old style.  They have an extremely long life with some as much as 50,000 hours!  The energy saving is worth the upgrade alone!  But not only do LED parking lot lights save on your energy bill they save you money by not having to replace the bulbs!

Our bucket truck crew is experts at replacing overhead services and overhead lines.  Our bucket trucks can reach the highest places and get the job done safer and quicker than conventional means.  Have a storm damaged overhead service?  We carry most major components to overhead services and have our bucket truck and service crews available to Des Moines and all surrounding communities 24 hours a day for those unexpected electrical emergencies.

When choosing lighting installation in Columbia for your home, office, or business, you may not realize how important your choice of lighting is. Lighting impacts every aspect of your environment – and no one knows this better than the electrical and lighting experts at Kolb Electric! Let’s go over some of our top picks for gorgeous, effective lighting.

Looking for lighting installation in Columbia? Contact Kolb online today!

Lighting – proper lighting – will only add to everything a room has to offer. You want ambient lighting to brighten a general area, without causing any headaches with overbearing, blaring lights. You want to draw visitors’ eyes to furniture, decorations, or other items of interest using accent lighting. And, last but not least, you want to utilize task lighting to keep any potential work areas bright enough to see what you’re doing.

First off, let’s take a look at the different types of lightbulbs, and the types of light they give off:

Now that we’ve touched on the types of bulbs, let’s delve into some types of lighting, what they are, and how they can add to your home, office, or business décor.

Ready to beautify your home and find the ideal lighting solutions to fit and add to your decor? Trust the professionals at Kolb to help you get the job done and done right! Contact us today to strike up a conversation, or to set a date for your consultation!

Usually, around this time people are giving up on their New Year’s resolutions. We get it; it’s tough to follow through on difficult commitments, especially when it comes to altering habits. Let et us be the voice that says, “Keep going! You can do this!” Or, maybe you’re still struggling to come up with a resolution. That’s where we come in. Resolve to be more energy efficient!

We’ve come up with several New Year’s resolutions we truly think you can keep. Energy efficiency doesn’t always require a significant monetary investment; sometimes, it calls for a small change in your routine. We know that change can be scary, but once you realize your savings potential, we hope that the challenge will be worth it!