Tripping breaker
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Tripping breaker
I have a circuit in my house that includes a bathroom and parts of two adjacent bathrooms. The circuit includes at least one ceiling fan. Anyway, when my wife uses the hair dryer and the ceiling fan is on, a 15 amp breaker trips. For years we have just made sure that the ceiling fan is off when she dries her hair and it has worked ok, but she recently got a new hair dryer that trips the breaker after it has been running for a few minutes, even with the ceiling fan off.
Question - will replacing the breaker with a 20 amp breaker likely do the trick, and are there any codes I should know about if i do this?
Thanks.
Question - will replacing the breaker with a 20 amp breaker likely do the trick, and are there any codes I should know about if i do this?
Thanks.
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Question - will replacing the breaker with a 20 amp breaker likely do the trick, and are there any codes I should know about if i do this?
How many watts does your wife's new hair dryer draw?
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Actually cost less then $100 in materials and bring the bathroom up to modern code which requires a 20 amp circuit for bathrooms. Nothing in the post indicates this isn't a DIY job so I'm not sure where the $500 came from.
spend.....$500.00 to run a new circuit
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I'm always up for a DIY project - so basically what I would be doing is replacing the present wire along the entire circuit with 12AWG and putting in a 20A breaker?
In my house it is pretty easy because it is an old house and I have access to all the wiring in the basement along the ceiling and/or in the attic. There would be some snaking involved but not a lot, I don't think...
In my house it is pretty easy because it is an old house and I have access to all the wiring in the basement along the ceiling and/or in the attic. There would be some snaking involved but not a lot, I don't think...
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so basically what I would be doing is replacing the present wire along the entire circuit with 12AWG and putting in a 20A breaker?