Spent 3 hours chasing a ground fault that wasn't there

Tessa Hart · 2026-04-25T13:00:03.067949+00:00

New construction house, AFCI breaker kept tripping on the kitchen lights. I pulled every box apart, checked every splice, even swapped the breaker. Finally found out the drywall guys had nicked a wire in the attic behind the insulation. That one little scratch took me a whole Saturday. Anyone else ever get burned by something that simple?

smith.ray4mo ago

Man, that’s brutal. Nothing worse than a hidden nick wasting a whole day like that.

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abby_robinson584mo ago

Oh boy, that's the kind of thing that makes you want to kick yourself.

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amybarnes4mo ago

Makes you wonder how many phantom calls are actually just drywall screws.

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