Question for an electrician - HELP!

[Starz26]

Sounds like your amps are too much for the breaker...A couple of things you need to find out:

1. do you have modern circuit breakers or fuses. If the latter I cannot help
2. do you have a 100 amp or 200 amp circuit breaker
3. Add up all your breakers and make sure they do not go over the total amps for your service.
4. If you have free breakers, move a few of the items to those breakers.
5. If you do not have, try to balance out the load a little..
6. Balance by taking high amp items (toaster over, microwave) and splitting them onto breakers that do not have as much of a load. Keeping in mind that a 10 amp breaker cannot take as much as a 20 amp (I know duh)

If you only have a 100 amp service, consider upgrading to a 200 amp service. can be done on your own for what 1000-2000 including all materials? Someone may have a better cost estimate.

Hope this helps

Originally Posted by Drat

I haven't been around here much lately, but I have a good reason...

We bought a house. An old house. A 90 year old house...

I've been spending every last minute of my waking time on this place with very little time for the simple pleasures in life (beer and cigars).

I'm a pretty handy person, but when it comes to electricity, I'm riding the short-bus.

So on to my question:

We've been tripping two of the breakers very often. One seems to control all of the 2nd floor and attic room along with the bathroom and laundry room. The other seems to control all of the outlets along one wall, which is where our toaster over and microwave are. I've figured out what all all of the breakers go to except 2. So we might have 2 open, but I doubt it (will probably do some testing this weekend). We've been running electric heaters due to insufficient insulation (another project I'm working on) and hate having to go the the basement crawl space to reset the breaker.

Anyway, what are the options for cheaply fixing our issue of having too many outlets connected through one breaker?