Your breaker keeps tripping: what you can check yourself and when to call an electrician
A tripping breaker isn't a fault — it's protection doing its job: the system shuts itself off to prevent bigger damage. The problem isn't that the breaker trips; it's that it keeps tripping.
If it tripped once
High-draw appliances running at the same time, such as an iron, a heater or an oven, can overload a breaker. If you switch a few of them off, reset the breaker and the problem doesn't come back, the issue is overload, not the wiring. Spreading the load across circuits is often enough.
If it keeps tripping
A breaker that trips again as soon as you reset it is telling you there is a short circuit or leakage current behind it. Forcing the breaker in this case is the wrong move; the circuit needs to be measured. If the residual current device (RCD) is tripping, the appliance or circuit causing it is found by isolating them one by one.
Signs that mean you should call right away
Heat in a socket or switch, a burning smell, blackening or discoloration; a crackling sound from the electrical panel; a tingling feeling on a wet floor. These are not signs you can "get by with for a while." A small mark you can see on electrical wiring is often the outward sign of a problem that has already progressed inside.
Grounding problems belong in this group too. If you feel a slight shock when you touch appliances, the installation's grounding should be measured.
For businesses: don't wait for the fault
The difference between a home and a business is the cost of a fault: in a facility where production stops, the problem isn't just an electrical problem. That's why we carry out periodic maintenance for businesses — tightening panel connections, finding hot spots with a thermal camera, measuring grounding, testing RCDs. A connection that is heating up shows on a thermal image before it turns into a fault.
Who comes out
From our base in Yakuplu, Beylikdüzü, we work on site in Beylikdüzü, Esenyurt, Büyükçekmece, Avcılar, Küçükçekmece and Başakşehir. We build our panels in our own workshop; the team that looks at the fault is the same team that built the panel. Because we get materials from our own store, jobs aren't left half-done waiting for a part.
The field team works Monday – Saturday, 08:00 – 17:00. Tell us briefly what's happening and we'll send the right team.