Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An older couple taking a look at their circuit breaker box - Coldsnowstorm/Getty Images Circuit breakers can be frustrating.

Your circuit breaker is not supposed to be a daily annoyance you grudgingly reset on the way to making coffee. When it starts acting up in specific ways, it is often warning you about heat, damaged ...

Q: Every few hours—sometimes minutes!—my living room and one side of my kitchen lose electrical power. I’ll check the breaker panel and, sure enough, a circuit breaker has tripped…again. Should I call ...