Natan Electric
Lighting, Outlets & Troubleshooting
Circuits that trip, outlets that don't work, and lighting or outlet additions — diagnosed to the cause rather than patched at the symptom.
Licensed & insured
Permitted, inspection-ready work
Warranty
1-year warranty on all work
Response
24/7 emergency dispatch
Experience
16 years in the trade
Electrical troubleshooting is mostly a process of elimination done in the right order, and the failure mode is a contractor who replaces parts until the symptom goes away.
We trace the circuit, find the fault, and tell you what caused it. Repeated tripping is information — it means the circuit is overloaded, or something on it is failing, or there’s a connection breaking down somewhere. All three have real fixes. None of them is a larger breaker.
We also handle the ordinary additions: new outlets and circuits, lighting installation, switch and fixture replacement, ceiling fans, outdoor and landscape lighting, and dedicated circuits for appliances that should never have been sharing one.
Two symptoms on this page are not routine. Warm outlets or switch plates, scorch marks, or a burning smell mean you should kill the circuit at the panel if you can do that safely, and call us the same day. That one doesn’t wait for a convenient appointment.
Troubleshooting billed by time with an agreed cap, so an open-ended fault hunt can't become an open-ended bill.
Common questions
- A breaker keeps tripping. Can't you just fit a bigger one?
- No, and please don't let anyone do it. The breaker is sized to protect the wiring behind it. A larger breaker removes the protection without removing the cause, which turns a nuisance into a fire risk. The fix is finding what's overloading or faulting the circuit.
- Half my outlets stopped working at once.
- Usually a tripped GFCI upstream that also protects the dead outlets, or a failed connection at one point in the daisy chain. Both are quick to find once someone traces the circuit properly.
- My lights dim when the fridge or AC kicks in.
- Common on older services carrying modern loads. Not usually dangerous by itself, but it's a signal the service is near its limit — worth knowing before you add anything large to it.
- Do I need AFCI or GFCI protection when adding circuits?
- Current code requires GFCI protection in wet and outdoor locations and AFCI protection in most living areas. New work has to meet current code, which is one of several reasons permitted work matters at resale.
Where we do this work
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