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Leave it alone and call. A technician reaches out within 1 business hour, and real emergencies go first.
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Metal that tingles is metal that is live. Main breaker off, call now.
Three causes cover almost every call we get for this.
A heating element or motor shorting to the metal frame, with no working ground to carry it away.
A home with no ground wire, a corroded ground rod, or a ground that was disconnected during a pipe repair.
Return current looking for a path finds the water pipes, and everything metal becomes live.
Leave it alone and call. A technician reaches out within 1 business hour, and real emergencies go first.
Nothing to try.
Online or by phone. A technician reaches out within 1 business hour.
Traced to the box or device it lives in. Exact price before any work, you approve it first.
Right parts, tested under load, next connection checked so it does not come back.
A tingle or shock from a faucet, a washing machine, a stove, a tub or any metal surface means a fault is energizing it: a damaged appliance cord or element leaking to its case, a missing or broken ground, a reversed hot and neutral, or a lost neutral at the service pushing current through the water pipes. Any of those can become a fatal shock in the shower. Turn off the main breaker, do not touch the surface, and call now.
Yes. A tingle today is a lethal shock when conditions change — wet floor, bare feet, a child. Main off, call (206) 486-6373.
Immediately prioritized.
Exact price after we find the fault, before any work starts.
Often it is, but the house should have carried that fault safely to ground and tripped a breaker. We fix both.
Licensed electricians across South King and Pierce County. Exact price before any work starts.