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Art wrote:
To clarify, you have a short and inadequate grounding system. If the ground
system was right the short would trip the breaker. It isn't doing that so
you may have a dangerous situation in the house. Since you don't seem to
know much about electricity, get some one to fix it that does.

A short will only trip a regular breaker if it exceeds the current
rating. He could easily have a short of 100ma to ground, which can
still kill, but not trip a breaker. It would trip a GFCI, but not a
regular breaker.

"m Ransley" wrote in message
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You have a bad short, probably costing you 10-20$+ a month, if you have
a ground strap on your pipes dont play around testing removing it unless
you Know what your doing and you dont. Id suggest an electrician will
fix it safely.

Since the OP knows what breaker is causing it basic troubleshooting by
unplugging everything on that breaker to see if it goes away is a good
first step useful info for a electrician if they are needed.

Say the washer causes the trouble, then its time to get that appliance
serviced somehow