Why would the electricity in our new home be flickering? I'm constantly resetting everything.?

Question

I'll often come home or wake to the fact that we'd lost electricity at some point. Our home is only 3 yrs. old so everything was checked within the house for code reasons.

I have called the electric company to have them remove some trees that are dead which are close to the power line, however, they swear it's not showing up as an outage and therefore have not cut down any of the trees.

And just this past week I've had to replace the thermostat on the hot water tank & regulator on the boiler, which I believe stems from these shortages.

Does anyone have any insight as to what's going on & how to handle the situation?

Answer 1

If your neighbour's power doesn't flicker then it's a problem between their house and yours. If it does then it's further "upstream".

If it's a short somewhere in your house you could be in danger.

Make a serious fuss.

Answer 2

You could be in danger yourself if it is caused by improper wiring. Call a certified electrician asap. You may need to call the building inspector in your area to see if things are up to specification.

check with the neighbors to see if theirs is doing the same thing.

Answer 3

You have a loose connection in your main wiring coming into the house, either at the post or if run underground a nic in the wiring either by digging or by a tree root. Or the main connection in the circuit breaker panel. Check with caution, use insulated tools

Answer 4

Its a loose neutral on your main panel lugs.(white wire)  Just dealt with that scenario on a service call.

Answer 5

Get an electrician to check the terminals in your meter box and service entrance.  A loose terminal can lose contact, then make contact again, causing the low voltage problems you describe.  Don't delay because a loose wire can also arc and possibly burn.

Answer 6

You need to have a qualified electrician do an inspection, and someone other than the one who wired your house originally.  Something is not right and it could cause a fire if not corrected ASAP.  In fact call you local fire department, they can probably recommend a good inspector, or even do it for you!

Answer 7

I had a loose wire at power pole doing that. call electric company again to trouble shoot.