I have a fairly new house and the recessed lighting fixtures in our family room "blink" every few minutes.

Question

what should i do, call a electrian or is this normal?

Answer 1

Recessed lighting fixtures have a built-in thermal safety switch. If the fixture gets too hot, the switch interrupts power until the fixture cools down. Try using a smaller wattage light bulb, or better yet, change over to a florescent bulb. They run much cooler, are more efficient, and last forever (almost).

Answer 2

There are 2 things to do before you call a electrician. First make sure the bulb is the correct wattage. The light should have a lable that tells you the correct wattage.
If the bulb is the correct wattage try a new bulb or take a bulb out of another light of the same type.
Recessed lights have a thermal shut off if the light gets to hot it shuts off till it cools down.

Answer 3

if the house is fairly new, under a year call the builder, older than that and you might need to call an electrician. Every few minutes seems like a lot, as the other person said if some other "appliance" is kicking in it would cause a "blink" but nothing comes on every few minutes.

Answer 4

You might want to check the bulbs and make sure they are screwed in tight. A bulb could be ready to go out. O r, like they said above, could be caused by something else kicking on, such as furnace, or refrigerator. Best thing to do if bulbs are fine, is call an electrician and let him determine the cause. Could be faulty wiring.

Answer 5

Hi i rent and that happened to me all the time in this house until i had enough of it because the lights keep on flicking and the light bulbs would blow really quick so we rang the real estate and they said it must be something in the roof electrical and the called a electrician to come out and fix it .
What you are best off doing is get in contact with the person that you brought the house off and get the builders details off them and get him out to check it out

Answer 6

Something is pulling the current. Does it do it when the refrigerator kicks on? Furnace fires up? Hot tub heater? My house does the same thing whenever any of these happen.