I had a friend put the wires back in to a new breaker box now i dont have any hot water and my dryer is stilll not getting hot
2007-02-06 14:36:56 · 7 answers · asked by misvirgo1 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Get an electrician in there. Your friend does not know what he's doing.
2007-02-06 14:40:58 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas K 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Have the friend backtrack. The reason your breaker was tripping was because there was a short in the dryer. Take the top off the dryer and then the front and the clip off the rotating drum in the rear and you will see the heater coil wires behind the drum on the back wall of the dryer. There is a break in that wire. Find the break and hook the wires together so they won't come undone and reassemble. Now there will be heat. If you got no power to the dryer, friend screwed up at the breaker. Put the old one back on.
2007-02-06 22:58:59 · answer #2 · answered by ButwhatdoIno? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New breaker still tripping means that 2 things may be happening now.. 1)instantaneous tripping means that something is wrong with the dryer try unplugging and turning on the breaker if it stays on then the dryer is faulty (or even if it still trips again you aren’t out of the water yet… then you could even have a short in the wall or the plug or 2) your dryer is too big for the breaker that means you need to up the wire size according to the dryers needs and then install proper size breaker determined by the dryer
the electrician says good luck
and maybe if all else fails call and electrician and if that guy doesnt know these things then keep him out of the panel he dont need to be hooking up them wires
2007-02-06 22:49:19 · answer #3 · answered by ELECTRICIAN_4_HIRE 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like you have a short in your dryer and your breaker is blown again. Time to punt and call an electrician.
2007-02-06 22:42:49 · answer #4 · answered by biomedking 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If your friend replaced the breaker, he may have installed it incorrectly in the panel. Move it one half slot up or down and see if that corrects the problem.
2007-02-07 02:15:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your friend screwed up. You better get a real electrician to check it out before your house burns down.
2007-02-06 22:47:58 · answer #6 · answered by Get Real 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Call the electrican before you blow something up.
Get a new dryer.
But fix the breaker box before hookin it up again.
2007-02-06 22:47:24 · answer #7 · answered by americangurl_28 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋