How to Safely Turn Off Power at the Electrical Panel

A required piece of knowledge for anyone is how to safely turn off the power to your home or apartment, or to any individual branch circuit in your residence. You need this skill for any electrical home repair from resetting a tripped circuit breaker to replacing a switch up to adding a new electrical 240 volt circuit for an electric range.

In the tutorial How to Safely Turn Off Power at the Electrical Panel I'll review this essential step for you. There is no reason to be intimidated by your home's electrical power panel or worrying about how to turn power on or off. It's pretty much the same for a circuit breaker or a fuse box. After reading this tutorial you'll find that safely turning off power to your electrical panel is really quite shockingly easy to understand!