When you plug something into a wall receptacle, you just expect it to work, isn’t that true? Reliable electricity is a necessity for most of us, in fact, without electricity, you most likely wouldn’t be able to read this blog, isn’t that true? 

For some homeowners, electricity isn’t that reliable though. Some have issues with the power grid where they live, leading to brownouts and blackouts, and others have aging wiring in their home or failing appliances leading to issues.

If you want to find out where the root of the problem lies, oftentimes a quick survey of your neighbors should be enough to get an idea of whether the problem is with the power grid or something internal in your home.

If you are the only one in the neighborhood that has issues, take a look at your breakers. If there is a certain breaker that constantly gets tripped, you should see if you have any appliances that connect to it that could be failing.