Not necessarily. As another poster alluded to breakers don't always trip. There was an incident with my girlfriends hairdryer at my parents house a couple years ago. The hairdryer's cord/breaker shorted out and caught on fire, the GFCI outlet didn't trip, and neither did the breaker. It can take minutes (or hours) for a breaker to trip depending on the situation, plenty of time for a fire to start.
The house was built in 1949 however the garage was redone in 1994. The owner at the time used the garage to fix cars by the looks of things it was a business there were a couple of phone lines, a workbench, and several other things indicating that this garage was once used for a business. No junction boxes are hidden. ALL of the wiring was run on the OUTSIDE of the walls. So technically speaking, being able to re-wire the garage would not be that hard of a task. The fact that the garage has 4 breakers is also a indication that this was a professional set up. Why the garage would need 4 breakers for 3 lights, and four outlets plus 2 exterior lights is beyond me.
The basement has fuses the garage has breakers. One of the fuses in the house powers the breaker box in the garage i have no clue which of the 4 it is.
nope, We took a multimeter to every wire connection in the fuse box.
Not uncommon on older houses, expecially when an addition is added.
If they did an addition the main service panel should have been upgraded. How big is the service into the house and how big is the sub panel in the garage.
It's 60A service, the breaker box is big enough to be the same size used if the house had one
The breaker fuses are 20A and 15A. The kitchen I put a 30A fuse on the circuit. kept blowing so much (from my moms electric frying pan) that it literally distroyed the 20A breaker fuse on the circuit. the pan is plugged into a 6 way power strip with a built in breaker and that breaker strip trips over the fuse blowing.
You dial 911 and pray the fire dept gets there in time.
no not a ton of stuff, fridge, microwave, toaster, range light. The fry pan is on a extension cord from the kitchen to the living room a breaker power strip is plugged into the extension cord for protection. The breaker on the power strip trips and saves the fuse for the house. Only happened once. we never run the toaster or microwave at the same time and never run the microwave or pan at the same time
My great-grandma bought the house in 96. When she bought it, the previous owners had 30A fuses in every circuit. My grandpa removed the 30s and put in 20s thinking it was overkill.
