Question for an electrician - HELP!

Some seriously bad advise given here (a few with good advise). Hire an Electrician and pay him to do the work or you could burn your house down and/or die. I've been an electrician for 25 years and have seen homeowners fu** up more wiring than you can imagine. We are currently rewiring a house that burned because they doubled/tripled up circuits on oversized breakers. Wire size determines breaker size. Why risk your families safety getting advise from cigar smokers or off the internet.

Do your own plumbing get wet, do your own electrical you can die.

If your breaker box is a Federal Pacific or Zinsco GET IT CHANGED NOW, google Federal Pacific or Zinsco breaker to see what I mean. This should run $1500-2500.
http://www.inspectapedia.com/fpe/fpepanel.htm
http://www.inspectapedia.com/electric/Zinsco.htm

[BORIStheBLADE]

You can get some really good ideas on the internet from people about your options and how to go about them, but the reality is the potential for you to get hurt or killed is pretty high given your knowledge of electrical.

Me personally.... if you don't know anyone that is an electrician I would hire a local electrician to come buy and spend an hour or two investigating your options and whats going on.

He will know how to open the panel and close it up. It sounds simple, but if the past owner hired a shotty electrician he could have created a hazard behind the panel cover and done something to get by which in reality you wouldn't know whats up or how to react to it.

I've been an electrician for 12 years so thats my

[Starz26]

Originally Posted by cf2112

Some seriously bad advise given here

I resemble that remark......

Thank for all the good information posted here...I learned a lot...

[Silound]

Originally Posted by cf2112

Some seriously bad advise given here (a few with good advise). Hire an Electrician and pay him to do the work or you could burn your house down and/or die. I've been an electrician for 25 years and have seen homeowners fu** up more wiring than you can imagine. We are currently rewiring a house that burned because they doubled/tripled up circuits on oversized breakers. Wire size determines breaker size. Why risk your families safety getting advise from cigar smokers or off the internet.

Do your own plumbing get wet, do your own electrical you can die.

If your breaker box is a Federal Pacific or Zinsco GET IT CHANGED NOW, google Federal Pacific or Zinsco breaker to see what I mean. This should run $1500-2500.
http://www.inspectapedia.com/fpe/fpepanel.htm
http://www.inspectapedia.com/electric/Zinsco.htm

That.....DISTURBS me....greatly. Almost every house I've lived in have Federal breaker boxes in them. Is that a problem specific to a range of models or dates, or is that a general problem for all FPE boxes?