Holy House Fire, Batman!

[krisnake]

An electrician paid a visit to our house today to fix a reoccurring problem - in the past week, every time we ran our clothes dryer, our main circuit breaker would flip causing all of our power to turn off. After calling multiple electricians, I found one that was able to come out today(!) He unscrewed the cover to our panel and quickly found the

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[ryanlion]

Wow, that's scary! I'm glad you caught it before anything bad happened!
Electrical stuff scares me, but at least it sounds like your breaker box was behaving like it was supposed to.

[schmooops]

Yikes, that's scary. Glad you got it fixed!

Tangentially, I'm also reminded that I need to add "cleaning the dryer vent hose" to my to-do list.

[cryophile]

Glad you got it taken care of, though I was looking forward to having a clothes drying party over here. :)

If you haven't already, maybe let the neighbors know about this? If the same electrician wired all the buildings, they could have the same problem.

[krisnake]

We were planning on it!

Since we will no longer be having a clothes drying party, we should have a Rock Band II Party!!!

p.s. Welcome back and congrats on completing the half marathon!

[tasmen]

Did I hear Rock Band party? :)

[flavio]

whoa scary!

[chiaspod]

Yikes! Glad you found a good electrician. I'll keep him in mind for us next time we need electrical work done.

[guineaus]

scary! glad that you found out what it was.

[goovery]

I'm so glad you caught it before it got ugly! And I second the recommendation of Jim at Sound Electric. We used him when we were at the house on Corliss. The breaker was terribly outdated and he was the only one I could find who knew how to work with it (I don't remember now what the problem was, I just remember thinking to myself that I need to remember this guy, because he was great).