I have two electrical questions for you all. I just moved in to a house that I partly rehabbed. It's a very small house, and I did a lot of the work myself--or with some help from contractors or people from Craigslist. Plumbing, electrical, carpentry, etc.
I decided to make it simple, and the house runs fully off of electricity. The first problem is that we feel a slight electrical current *in* the running water coming out of our bathroom sink. If you have a scrape on your finger, you can feel the current more distinctly. Along the same lines (maybe?), if you touch the outlet plates on a number of our light switches and turn the light on, you'll get a mild-moderate shock.
What could be causing this? Any ideas?
The second question is this: the house is running off electricity (no gas). We have no significant power draws except an electric oven (which is used pretty rarely), an electric washer/dryer, which is used only moderately--since it's only me and my wife who live here currently. And we have a new electric water heater.
With a tiny house, and only those significant power draws, we used 2007 kWh last month. It was our first month of living here full-time, and that was stunning. I've lived in much bigger houses, with many more significant power drains, and I've never come close to 2007kWh.
Is this even possible to draw that much power in thirty days? Or is this a sign, coupled with the above problem I described, that there's some significant electrical problem?
Please don't respond: just call a licensed electrician. I *will* do that very soon. I'm posting here to try to learn from your accumulated wisdom. I'd like to know what your response is. I like to figure out questions. I want to learn.
Thanks in advance for any responses!
~j
I decided to make it simple, and the house runs fully off of electricity. The first problem is that we feel a slight electrical current *in* the running water coming out of our bathroom sink. If you have a scrape on your finger, you can feel the current more distinctly. Along the same lines (maybe?), if you touch the outlet plates on a number of our light switches and turn the light on, you'll get a mild-moderate shock.
What could be causing this? Any ideas?
The second question is this: the house is running off electricity (no gas). We have no significant power draws except an electric oven (which is used pretty rarely), an electric washer/dryer, which is used only moderately--since it's only me and my wife who live here currently. And we have a new electric water heater.
With a tiny house, and only those significant power draws, we used 2007 kWh last month. It was our first month of living here full-time, and that was stunning. I've lived in much bigger houses, with many more significant power drains, and I've never come close to 2007kWh.
Is this even possible to draw that much power in thirty days? Or is this a sign, coupled with the above problem I described, that there's some significant electrical problem?
Please don't respond: just call a licensed electrician. I *will* do that very soon. I'm posting here to try to learn from your accumulated wisdom. I'd like to know what your response is. I like to figure out questions. I want to learn.
Thanks in advance for any responses!
~j