Home Safety Checklist:

RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICAL INSPECTION LIST

• Is your breaker panel filled to capacity, with some breakers being half the size of the rest? 
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• Are all of your electrical receptacles grounded and with the correct polarity? 
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• Is there any visibly exposed wiring anywhere in your home or garage? Especially outdoors? 
• Is your electrical panel up to date with moder circuit breakers or are you still using plug fuses or outdated, obsolete circuit breakers more than 30 years old?  
• Does you breaker panel lack a main shut off circuit breaker? 
• Is your electrical service property grounded (other than the water pipe?) 
• Are any of your outlet boxes generating heat or do they seem warm to the touch? 
• Is your home protected with GFI recptacles in the kitchen, bathrooms and outdoors? 
• Does your bathroom (GFCI) outlet trip the breaker when a hair dryer or curling iron is being used? Does it affect more than just the bathroom? 
• Do your electrical cords plug tightly into the receptacles? 
• Do your receptacles move slighlty under the cover plate when plugging in a cord? 
• Do your lights flicker? 
• Do you need to use a lot of extension cords? 
• Do you use space heaters? 
• Do you have hard wired, battery back-up smoke alarms installed?