When you think of it, there aren’t many modern home conveniences that would work without electricity. Here’s a checklist you can use to help plan your electrical service. Consider electrical service for the following:

• Telephones (kitchen, living areas, bedrooms, basement, garage)
• Doorbells (front and side or back doors with different tones) with illuminated buttons
• Refrigerators (kitchen plus spare for basement, garage, or wet bar)
• Freezers (kitchen plus spare for basement or garage)
• Furnace blowers
• Thermostat controls
• Cooking ranges/stoves
• Microwave ovens
• Water heaters
• Televisions (electrical, cable, antenna service)
• Smoke alarms
• Carbon monoxide alarms
• Cable television hookup
• Video players and games
• Personal computers-Internet access
• Attic fans
• Bathroom fans
• Garage door openers
• Dishwashers
• Clothes washers
• Clothes dryers
• Hi-fi speaker systems
• Intercoms/cassette or stereo systems built into walls
• FM antenna hookups
• Burglar alarms
• Garbage disposals or compactors
• Electric grills
• Sun lamps in bathrooms
• Water pumps
• Sump pumps
• Vent hoods for cooking ranges
• Central air-conditioning
• Dehumidifier
• Humidifier
• Jacuzzi motor with timer switch
• Overhead circulating fans and whole-house attic fan with timer switch
• Electric heat-circulating fan built into a fireplace
• Bathroom heater, vent fan, lights
• Attic power ventilator
• Electric baseboard heaters, if main or supplementary heat source
• Central vacuum system