You're calling on a professional, not a jack of all trades

Safer Greenbelt is limited to electrical work. It's up to you to deal with other systems, or choose people you trust to do so. Here's an explanation, and some examples. The importance of this limit is not necessarily obvious to people who have not been trained in a construction trade.

You're calling on an expert, but not a mind-reader

Be there to ask and to answer questions.

To learn why—in addition to the fact that being there will help you understand what the report, consider:

Any investigation, especially examination performed after a building is completed, can bring surprises. If you absent yourself, you are taking on an extra agreement. You are accepting the technical, cost-related, and aesthetic choices made based in your absence on best-guess but potentially inaccurate interpretation of your wishes. This applies if you ask for a look at your rental property because your tenant expressed concern. It's equally true at your house if you find you have to run out.

Appointments Matter

You'll get a call in the case of an unreasonable delay (more than 10 or 15 minutes) except in the rare case when this would require talking on the phone while driving.

By making an appointment for a site visit, you are agreeing to pay for a minimum of one hour of time, unless you get in contact a day in advance to reschedule or cancel. (You'll be dealing with a human, so if there's a crisis, you might drop a stitch and neglect calling. Once you've caught your breath, communicate!)

Additional Expectations

• We play by the rules. There are lots of requirements in the electrical code that protect occupants and workers alike. They've been refined, modified based on injuries and deaths and changes in technology, for well over a century. Among the most important worker protections are the requirements for clear working space You can read about them, even learn how to look them up—free—here
• Usually, a judicious electrical worker will need to turn off circuits. If they serve clocks, or appliances containing clocks or programming, these may require resetting at the end of the day's consult.
• These special conditions can affect the work:
  • There's no reason to work under unusually onerous or unpleasant conditions. A cat's litter box—or rubbish, or vermin, or movable obstructions—in the work site are examples.
  • After a fire or flood, examination would risk exposure to carcinogens or mold. Until the damage has been cleaned up, and passed muster with an industrial hygeinist, this would require special suiting and breathing gear.
  • Some conditions are not under your control. Example: the work could require clawing through an unventilated, unfloored attic or a narrow crawlspace. These situations have to be judged individually.
  • Sometimes, evaluating your wiring could mean exposure to hazardous conditions, not merely unpleasant ones. Wiring in or near asbestos, for example, or significant loose fiberglass, will be left alone.