Lights Wont Turn On In One Room

If the breakers are not labeled it should be obvious as the tripped breaker won t be in line with the rest.

Lights wont turn on in one room.

And if the old one is a cfl compact fluorescent don t spend much time thinking it can t be the bulb. It is quite common for a gfci to be tripped in a bathroom kitchen laundry room closet or even outdoors and somewhere else in the home is also affected. One thing about gfci outlets is that they can control outlets and lights in other parts of the home other than where the gfci is located. It may be marked bedroom.

A faulty or nonworking ceiling light can pose a serious fire hazard to your home. It s weird when it s just one room in the house with everything else humming away all bright and cheery like nothing happened. How to figure out problems with ceiling lights. Continue through the breakers then go and check your lights.

And maybe you change the light bulb and maybe even change it again before you realize that the alarm clock is also out and it s not the bulb that s the problem it s the whole room. Just flip the breaker to the off position wait one or two seconds then turn it back on. To reset the electrical breaker and turn power back on to your room find the electrical panel usually near the utility room or in the garage. They re supposed to last 10 years some of them don t last 10 months.

If a new bulb doesn t work turn off the switch or pull the plug turn off the power that is and try bending up the little metal tab inside the bulb.