Electrical issues

Started by vicsing

over 15 years ago

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Member since: Oct 2006

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Hi, we live in a ~40 year old Co-op in Manhattan. Since we moved in 2 1/2 years ago we have had a series of electrical issues. 1) Cooking range's auto ignition failed 2) Microwave failed 3) Refrigerator ice-maker failed 4) Bulbs fuse on average once every two weeks 5) New Coffee maker failed within 3 weeks of purchase Any ideas on what might be causing this? Old wiring? Interference with something else? Faulty Junction box? a poltergeist? Any elegant solutions short of actually rewiring the whole apartment? Shall we call in Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd?

Response by Wbottom

over 15 years ago

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Member since: May 2010

im not afried to do most household wiring, equipped with a tester and some common sense, but yours sounds like a short that your breaker isnt interrupting--sounds like the short is in the kitchen--try changing the breaker that feeds those outlets--otherwise it's elestrician time for sure

"not afried" woops

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Response by Primer05

over 15 years ago

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Member since: Jul 2009

You might have too many outlets on one breaker, or not enough power for it.

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Response by sjtmd

over 15 years ago

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Who you goin to call - Ghostbusters?

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Response by drdrd

over 15 years ago

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Member since: Apr 2007

If you were my neighbor, I would be very afried if you wanted to do electrical yourself. Call an electrician so you don't have a fire & inconvenience a lot of people. If you want to do it yourself, build a bookshelf.

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