Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at
7:51 am
Charlene W asked:
This is a house built in around the 40’s, main floor and basement. There is the kitchen, 2 bedrooms, living room and bathroom on the main floor. There is one bedroom, utility room, laundry room, and family room, mostly all unfinished. I live in Washington state. There is only heat in my son’s room downstairs but not enough to keep it warm in the winter. There is like 3 outlets in the living room, one or two in the bedrooms, two in the utility room, one in the family room, not as much as a modern house so I have to run those strips with all the outlet holes in them to plug everything up everywhere. Then there’s no heat in the family room and it gets so cold in there, I had to put a space heater in there and one in my son’s room down there too.
The breaker kept going off when I had the heater plugged in the family room where my daughter was sleeping so I plugged it in the utility room, over time, it arched and melted the outlet and the strip that it was plugged into at the other end;the extention cord was very hot!
When I use to have this cheap vacuum, the breaker never went off but once I got rid of it and got a very good vacuum and very powerful, it makes the breakers break and sometimes the vacuum runs suggishly.
The landlord doesn’t like it that I use that powerful vacuum but I feel it’s
not my fault I have a good vacuum, he needs to fix the electrical but he consulted with his electrician that says everything is fine. I have 3 kids in this house and don’t want it to burn down with us in it. I also
wanted to add that the wiring seems to be screwed up because when the breaker goes when I’m vacuuming, the frig, my son’s things in his room in the basement, and different things in different parts of the house go off. Seems like one or two things per room don’t have power when it happens. Is this house dangerous?
brighton electrician
