One room of my house has no electric. House has been newly wired. Been fine for 13 yrs. Checked all the breakers and none are tripped. Could it be something to do with the breakers or box or could it be a wire intew. H..E..L..P
2007-02-04 03:32:14 · 8 answers · asked by tennessee_rebel50 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
An earthing line going to that room would have interconnected with the powerline or totally wrongly connected.
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2007-02-04 03:39:45 · answer #1 · answered by sarayu 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It sounds like you have an open circuit or a bad circuit breaker but a bad circuit breaker is the least likely.
Open Circuit: Branch circuit wiring feeds through each outlet on the circuit. So you usually have a cable coming in and going out of each outlet box. If a connection in any of these outlets has opened (come off the receptacle screw terminal or popped out of the wirenut) the rest of the circuit downstream will be dead.
To find it:
1. With the circuit breaker on, pound on the wall next to each dead outlet starting at the one closest to the circuit breaker panel. Sometimes with a barely loose connection you will see the lights flicker. If this happens, turn off the circuit and pull out that outlet and resecure the connections.
2. With the circuit breaker off, remove each dead outlet and look for a bad connection on the receptacle terminals or in a wirenut. Resecure any bad or suspect connections, restore power and see if it's fixed.
If none of this works, call an electrician.
2007-02-04 12:07:11 · answer #2 · answered by William T 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An electrical circuit that suddenly stops working, after good preformance for many years, says some thimg tripped a breaker.
There times a breaker may click when moved, or looks to still be in the on possition, when in fact has gone bad.
Find the breaker or breakers that serve that part of the house, and one by one, click it off, then click it back on. It must go all the way over, and not partually come back. If it sparks, pops back a bit or will not move at all, get that breaker replaced
2007-02-04 11:43:46 · answer #3 · answered by duster 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I gave the other electrician the point for best answer. The problem is a bad make-up in one of the boxes. In a newly rewired house the odds that it is something else is less than 1%. Call your electrician back and have him/her fix their mistake. WARRANTY!!
2007-02-04 12:34:32 · answer #4 · answered by NubbY 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'll bet you have a bad wire. I have seen where wires are broken in the insulation. It's as if there was a bubble in the copper when it was formed. I'd call the contractor and have him fix it.
2007-02-04 11:42:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Make sure to reset all your GFI recepticals.If one trips it could take out a whole line of them
2007-02-07 17:52:23 · answer #6 · answered by Billy T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if it was rewired, check and make sure all the boxes are made up that feeds that room
2007-02-04 12:23:28 · answer #7 · answered by ed h 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
if you dont have a meter dont mess with it if you do it is simple to track down you cant do shiit with out one
2007-02-04 11:51:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋