The Electrician North Bend WA Counts On Against Circuit Problems
I am Larry Dimock, The Circuit Detective. Up until 1997 I was one electrician North Bend used for wiring its new homes. Now I'm following up, taking care of the little glitches and malfunctions that show up in a home's electrical system.
This troubleshooting is all I do anymore. And the Valley is my favorite place to work, since I live in Carnation myself (since 1972). Find out more about me. Find out more about my work at Eastside electrician.
Still Affordable
I don't need to drive a van or truck around just to tackle circuit problems. So I carry all I need in my little Toyota Echo (see photo). That helps your cost stay under $100, on average. I figure it at $40 (trip charge to 98045) plus $1.00 per minute of on-the-job work. You say, I don't look like an electrical contractor? Well, what do you want? Your problem solved simply, or a good-looking van-equipped guy who might get things working by running new wires around for a few hours?
Easy Availability
You don't wait for me to get done with some remodel job -- I don't have any! I can usually get to your problem within a day or two of your call, Mon-Fri 9am-4pm. But we can talk anytime 7am-9pm Mon-Sat. Call 425-333-4400
Maybe You Can Fix It Yourself
In case it might be a simple fix, I also share my knowledge and experience nationally on My troubleshooting website. The more you know about your electrical system, the better, even if you end up having me (or another electrical contractor) come to your place.
Stories of Circuit Problems
from North Bend
Along Highway 202. When you are new to a house and when you are selling are common times for circuit problems to need solving. This North Bend man called me because he was alerted to the fact that some of his new home's outlets did not have a good ground reaching them. Usually people aren't aware of this condition because it does not affect normal operation. But he knew he wanted definitely good grounding so that his surge protectors would be capable of protecting his electronic appliances. This home was not an old one that was built before grounds were being wired into buildings. Most of his outlets did show a good ground, and the outlets he was concerned about even showed the bare ground wires in their boxes, hooked up to the receptacles. Where was the continuity of the ground broken? After looking into the boxes of nearby outlets, I got into my overalls. Why? This was a mobilehome, which also has circuit connections underneath it at a "crossover" junction box. By process of elimination, that was almost the only possibility left. Once I found and opened that box, I saw that whoever had joined the wires there when the mobilehome was set in place here, had neglected to join the ground wires. Did he have one too few wirenuts? Anyway, I did what he hadn't. It was safe to run the electronics now.
Riverside Drive. I had been to this house before. It has been worked over with remodels and is in heavy use, as a house should be. And the circuit having trouble this time was the same one I had solved a short on before. She described now how the breaker would trip at times that did not correspond exactly to heavy loads. This is a GFCI-type breaker, so there was a question as to whether it was responding to something outdoors in the rain, where the circuit did extent to. In awhile I took the panel's cover off to check there. There sat the circuit's wire in the breaker with its insulation melted back about two inches. When heat builds up like this from a not-very-tight connection, damage also occurs to the screw-area of the breaker. So I ran after the right breaker at the Ace Hardware, put it in, repaired the wire, and reattached. Case solved. What had happened was not only a slightly loose wire, but the at-times heavy loads had been attached to a 20-amp breaker. The wire itself was only 15-amp wire. Hence, some of the overheating was from that. My new breaker was 15-amp rated. I imagine that sometime in the past an original 15-amp breaker had been replaced with a 20 to handle loads that had been tripping it. I explained all this to the homeowner, and I think she actually understood it. For a circuit-problems electrician, North Bend does count on me.
THE CIRCUIT DETECTIVE