What Residential Electrical Equipment Can StrikeCheck Assess?

StrikeCheck provides cost-effective and complete solutions for residential and commercial property claims involving electronics and a variety of specialty electrical items. With fact-driven onsite assessments, StrikeCheck eliminates speculation and guesswork to help clients make better claim settlement decisions quickly, accurately, and fairly.

 

Use this guide to know more about what residential electrical equipment StrikeCheck evaluates in each room.

Equipment Assessed by Room

Your average home is likely to include a lot of electrically powered equipment, some of which will probably be found in multiple rooms, such as:
  • Electrical system equipment, including lights, wires, and outlets
  • Home appliances
  • Smoke detectors
StrikeCheck can assess the following equipment you might find in a garage:
  • Electric power tools
  • Garage door openers
  • Portable generators
A kitchen might include these pieces of equipment StrikeCheck can assess:
  • Dishwashers
  • Kitchen ovens and ranges
  • Refrigerators
  • Residential kitchen exhaust hoods
  • Small home appliances, like microwaves or mixers
StrikeCheck can examine these items in your policyholders’ living rooms:
  • Consumer electronics, such as TVs, Blu-ray players, audio equipment, gaming accessories, etc.
  • Gas or electric fireplaces
  • Home automation systems
  • Home theater systems
  • Residential elevators
You may not expect to find much electrically powered equipment in a bathroom, but StrikeCheck can assess:
  • Exhaust fans
  • Hair styling tools
  • Saunas
Your policyholders’ bedrooms may contain many items StrikeCheck can examine, such as:
  • Audio equipment
  • Cell phones
  • Consumer electronics, including computers, tablets, etc.
  • TVs
Your policyholders may have multi-purpose rooms, like a home office or gym. StrikeCheck can examine:
  • Computers
  • Exercise equipment
  • Networking equipment
  • Printers
  • Scanners
StrikeCheck can examine the following equipment you might find in a laundry or utility room:
  • Breaker panels
  • Washers and dryers
  • Water heaters
  • Water softeners
Your policyholders may have outdoor equipment StrikeCheck can assess, such as:
  • Electric wired fences
  • Fountain pumps
  • Generators
  • Irrigation pumps and control systems
  • Landscape lighting
  • Well pumps
  • Pool and hot tub equipment, including pool heaters, filters, chlorinators, and control systems
  • Safety and security equipment, including alarm systems and security lights
  • Solar power equipment, including solar inverters and panels

The Three Most Frequently Assessed Electronics

Learn more about what our assessments determined about large appliances, consumer electronics, and electrical service panels.
 
Hover over each graph and box to see the data.

Large Appliances

Frequency of Appliances Assessed by Category
Repair vs. Replace Cost Comparison
Top 3 Findings for Large Appliances:

Consumer Electronics

Frequency of Appliances Assessed by Category
Repair vs. Replace Cost Comparison
Top 3 Findings for Consumer Electronics:

Electrical Service Panels 

Repair vs. Replace Frequency
Repair vs. Replace Cost Comparison
Top 3 Findings for Electrical Service Panels:

You Can Learn More About StrikeCheck’s Services

When whole home surge and lightning claims come across your desk, an objective assessment is crucial to determining the actual cause of loss – and whether the equipment is damaged at all.
 
Use this guide to learn more about equipment frequently reported as having surge or lightning damage.
Claims with electronics and electrically powered specialty items may include outdoor equipment like solar power systems, landscape lighting, lawnmowers, and more.

 

Learn more about the outdoor equipment and perils they may face. 
Two generators had reported lightning damage.
 
Read the Generator Claim Case Study to learn more about the StrikeCheck process to provide answers.

 

It’s a good thing the adjuster for this claim didn’t take the contractor’s word for all the items listed as damaged by lightning.
 
Read the Lightning Claim Case Study to learn more.