Troubleshoot Burned Wires & Tripped Circuit Breaker Causing Lights Not To Come On in Home

Ever wonder why your lights night working and your electrical circuit breaker is tripped? And when you reset the brekaer it want reset. Loose or burned wire connections are high on list of failures for electrical circuits. Sometimes a short to ground or neutral will also cause the circuit breaker to trip an not reset. Replacing a circuit breaker will not fix the issue, you will have to track down the wire problem.

[@Sparky-ww5re]

Nice job and serving your customers well. I understand why you used wirenuts to get the homeowner back in service, but I personally would have used Alumniconn connectors because mixing copper and aluminum under a wirenut is likely what caused the wiring to burn up in the first place. This homeowner was very lucky the house is not a pile of ashes, this shady wiring is a good example of why not everyone should be doing their own electrical work, there's a reason why we as electricians go through years of training and recertification to maintain proficiency in this field. An old school electrician friend of mine once told me, "the electrical codes were written in blood"

[@jsubound2007]

The world needs more honest professionals like u man. Keep up the good work and thanks for the video🫡

[@Hitman.13.]

Good job man! Doing the troubleshooting, identifying the problem, correcting it, and notifying the customer of existing potential fire hazard that requires fixing! Great video

[@jsb7546]

Ya know some people just shouldn't try to do certain kinds of work specially when it's gonna be half assed and dangerous glad you took care of that monstrosity. Go E TEAM!!

[@russrockino-rr0864]

OMG! That attic looks like open-splice hell! Thanks for sharing. Russ, Electrician from Oregon

[@bayrealist4176]

Romex should be properly fastened to the buildings permanent structurs, Using Properly sized NM romex staples, You also need to make sure there is enough wire length left for future maintenance, But great job identifying the issue, definitely on the easier side of troubleshooting than im used to lol Stay Safe bro

[@richardgeiger1669]

Man! Damn. Never a dull moment as a electrician

[@pawelelektryk2985]

It's usually a bad oman when a customer tells you he had 'someone' do 'some' work recently.That wiring in the attic is what we call in my company a 'rat's nest'. omg, what a disaster.It's suprising that the place has not gone up in flames yet. Good work btw.

[@Eddy63]

Good find Steven and good proper fix ...

[@whitetiger8652]

Definitely a professional.

[@Sooksurf]

Bro I’m glad you’re safe but your reaction to the spark has me crying gang 😂😂

[@Thatssomariahh]

Geez glad you’re okay Great video

[@unitedtradesmanacademy1894]

i know right

[@apackwestbound5946]

What was your customer's reaction to the pictures off your cellphone, was he concerned? Did the customer hire you to go through the rest of the attic and fix the other examples of unsafe wiring that you documented early in the video? As a troubleshooting technique would it make any sense to temporarily replace the circuit breaker (C/B) in the panel with a AFCI C/B (from your stock) then energize the circuit again and see if the AFCI trips indicating arcing somewhere else along the same circuit? I mean how far do you go with this stuff, at some point you may be rewiring the whole house?

[@vince6829]

Nice job. Thanks for sharing.

[@lesterwatson8519]

Good Job Man. From the video's you post there must be some bad electricians in your area.

[@jrpritchard1622]

was the older wire aluminum and the field piece meter is that a good meter i like the way it does when volts is present has a light that light up and beeps as well be safe

[@smashthings4fun]

I have some open splices on my attic from the previous homeowner. I got to get it fixed before this happens to me

[@shawnwaterssw]

Good work.

[@MrMeezy2012]

Much love bro!

[@afzalhakeen4941]

one time a woman called me ,telling me her bedroom light don't work so i went there to check to see whats wrong ,checked breakers and a switch all good turns out her lightbulb died after i changed her lightbulb i told her next time check the bulbs before u call me again

[@jackensonjulien8607]

Didn't you get paid for coming over and fix it😂?

[@gregfisher216]

What a mess Steve !!!!!! I know you see this a lot ! very dangerous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wear your belt and suspenders !!! check it ,check it again!!! Your eyes are young ,you can see in that dark attic! I would need me a good old drop light with an LED blub in it !

[@unitedtradesmanacademy1894]

I normally wouldn't do this job but it's an elderly couple, so I managed

[@cozettacarroll5238]

Great job .

[@anthonymarino4260]

great job well done

[@bigdaddy4975]

I used to swear by twisting the wires but these things changed my view on that issue.

[@erhverhzhee6732]

Why you didn’t use the proper wire connectors for the aluminum and copper connections?

[@merrelrodgers6300]

nice job bro

[@kraizy420]

My mans got electrocuted at 4:48 lol

[@traviswilliams5225]

Are those wires Aluminum?

[@Makitafan]

The things you see in the field. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@princeunaegbu6550]

Question did you have to use a round jay box ?

[@unitedtradesmanacademy1894]

No

[@mrman7453]

That shade tree job must be kin folks to that did some work for me .

[@unitedtradesmanacademy1894]

You know it

[@charlietaroni1607]

lucky there was no insulation to dig through

[@scotts.4471]

Box facing up on rafter code violation

[@PatrickPease]

I like how you were all professional right up until some crazy stuff happened. And then it was perfectly justified swear words

[@josephgarcia676]

My brother may I got a question for you hopefully, you answer me back

[@Hptrontic]

I see that there is aluminum wire there. That stuff right there mixed with copper is fire waiting to happen. It require special Connectors to splice into copper wire. For that house I reccomend a full rewire of the house. very dangerous stuff there.

[@zacjenkins3964]

Why did it do that

[@muhammadmasoodmirza8290]

@9:25 where is your wire stripper?

[@plain-train2512]

Great video! How much do you charge for a job like the one in this video?

[@unitedtradesmanacademy1894]

If you want to book a consultation with me on pricing email me. I dont disclose that information openly.

[@Hitman.13.]

Tradesmen generally do not disclose pricing in public, since every job is unique and you never know what the problem is until you re there, so you can't say a price and stick with it, it is way more complicated than that. But in our area in PA we charge 275$ for a service call (just to show up, troubleshoot and assess the job), if the problem is solved within the hour it's 275$, if more then 275$ + 84$ for every hour spent fixing it. Good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good.

[@josefpichler7271]

Oh my god! I am happy to have Austrian Standards, so such solutions are not legal here!

[@ahmedbelly1926]

That's some B's right there.

[@tamikamcrae2586]

I plugged up a space heater and now my breaker is broke I’m soo frustrated and it’s to my refrigerator 😢

[@smashthings4fun]

refrigerator should be on its own breaker for that reason. Space heaters draw around 1500 watts and even through refrigerator may not draw much current depending on age and size the compressor initial startup can draw a bit of current

[@bigdaddy4975]

Hey bro you should give wagos a try they changed my life. I love them now.

[@leroygreen1877]

The guy didn't realize aluminum wire to Romex without the proper wire nuts created a fire hazard. I hope you use the correct wire nuts for that job. I have aluminum wire in my house and ill tell you what that wire will get hot well before a 15 amp breaker trips. Surprised you didn't use alumiconn connectors.

[@suzylarry1]

shady as HELL !

[@patrevord7743]

You did not put in Cable Clamp Connectors.

[@FreeAmerican-mm2my]

No need to on a plastic junction box.

[@josephgarcia676]

I wish you guys would start telling us as electricians how much you charge for each episode that you run into that would be so awesome

[@fabcustomcabinets796]

Yooo .. my neego

[@bigdaddy4975]

The wagos are a lot better for the wire also you don’t have to twist them anymore twisting them is bad for the wire too.

[@bonaminhrasmey42]

😂should turn the main switch off first 😢😮

[@josephgarcia676]

You are a bad brother from another mother anyway you need to give us prices on what you charge BASS so I have an idea and everybody else does. I’m not the only one I’m sure.

[@shawndickerson3660]

Great Repair My Brother…..Yea that some dangerous mess they left man….U could hear that voltage buzz in yo camera…..I was on a service call at then end of my first year on April fools day 2013 and got hung up on 277 on a Wall pack and had to be kicked off the extension 🪜

[@Hitman.13.]

Oh shit, did you sustain any injuries ?

[@FreeAmerican-mm2my]

@@Hitman.13. He must have died.

[@Sparky-ww5re]

​​@@FreeAmerican-mm2mynot necessarily, it depends on many variables. A couple years ago I got lit up by 277V on a neutral while replacing some LED drivers in an office building, while I was twisting the small stranded wire from the driver into the gray neutral #12awg from the circuit, it became energized and locked my hand onto it while forearm was lightly brushed against the fixture, the muscle contractions caused me to jerk my arm and sliced it wide open requiring 7 sutures and that's how I broke free. Then of course OHSA got involved which was a whole different headache in of itself, but come to find out, even though all applicable LOTO procedures were followed, the circuit I was working on was a mutiwire branch circuit on a single pole breaker instead of a three pole, or single poles with identified handle ties, and had an open neutral in a junction box above a drop ceiling in a different room and became live when loads on a different circuit switched on, we were unaware of these facts and the building blueprints were outdated and were of no help.

[@josephblaha3586]

And that’s the reason you don’t use that crap. Spend the money and use EMT conduit.