There are many Benefits of Hiring an Electrician to install pot lights in your home. The main reason most homeowners hire an electrician is because they don't want to deal with electricity themselves. Electricity can be dangerous and if not installed properly, could cause a fire hazard if not immediately, later on down the road.

With an electrician doing the work, there is no worry that the installation will be done wrong or come out looking badly. Make sure when calling around or looking on the Internet for an electrician, you find a certified, insured and experienced electrician that specializes in residential projects.

Insurance is another major benefit for electricians. They should be insured and it is acceptable to ask for their insurance papers. Electricians should be insured against fire, breakage of personal items and other household damage they or their assistance might cause during the installation of pot lights or any type of electrical work.

An Electrician should be certified by one or more electrical associations to do various work. Pot lights are a certified type of job and the electrician should tell you about his or her certification. They would should be proud of the fact they went through a test to get to install various components.

An electrician that a homeowner hires may or may not be part of a union. This would be up to each individual homeowner and how they feel about organized labor. Electricians who are part of a labor union do tend to be a little more expensive then an electrical contractor that owns their own business or works for a small company.

A homeowner is entitled to an estimate before any work is performed. This estimate may be free or low-cost and then the price of the estimate might come off the total price of the work preformed. This estimate should be in writing and it doesn't hurt to get several estimates for installing pot lights where you want them because costs vary from electrician to electrician.

An electrician will know when to adjust the measurements in order to accommodate a structural beam that can not be disturbed because it is part of what holds up the house. This is part of their construction training that goes along with electric work. For pot lights, they must cut out a sizeable hole in the ceiling or wall in order to place the pot light in it and then wire the light to existing wires. There are special tools electricians have that help them locate wires already in the walls and ceilings so they don't have to 'dig around' for them.

An electrician will know the proper placement and spacing of pot lights because you don't want to install them too close together or to far apart and you don't want to have a pattern of pot lights that don't work properly to bring more light into the center of the room to help it look like a larger room.