Electrical safety and troubleshooting tips for North Idaho homeowners: dangerous panels, breaker problems, surge protection, and when to call a licensed electrician.
If your North Idaho home was built or updated between roughly the 1950s and the 1980s, there is a real chance it has an electrical panel that the industry now considers unsafe. Two brands in particular, Federal Pacific Electric (FPE) Stab-Lok and Zinsco, are well known among electricians for breakers that can fail to trip during an overload or short. A breaker that does not trip is the whole safety system failing silently, and that is a fire risk. Why these panels are a probl
