To become an electrician, it takes years. You must first start at the bottom as an apprentice. Then you can become a journeyman. Then after approval from the electrical contractor you worked under, you can become an electrician. An experienced electrician has dealt with a lot of problems within the same realm of the electrical field. He can find and identify a problem - like overloading house circuits.
One time a painter was refinishing the floors for a homeowner and his equipment wouldn’t work. He told the homeowner that the problem was in a receptacle in the floor. The problem was not with that receptacle. It was the painter that was using old equipment while he plugged into a circuit that he overloaded. They were using faulty extension cords and faulty equipment which lead to tripping the breaker.
Most standard house circuits are capable of 15 amps unless they are located in the kitchen or bathroom which code requires to be 20 amp circuits. Other than the kitchen and bathroom, the rest of the house is not required to be 20 amp circuits. You have very little independent circuits other than the microwave, window air conditioners, and other small appliances.
If you plug in a floor sander and it takes more than 20 amps, it would be better to plug it into a circuit in the kitchen because most houses are not wired to handle more load than required. The point is that an electrician would know this. If repairs are needed, the electrician would repair it up to code and maybe a lot quicker. The customer would have a lot less problems in the future because they hired that professional to begin with. So they would actually save money instead of having to call back a handyman or their neighbor 4 or 5 times with the same problem.
Don’t overload your circuits. Check with an electrician if you continue to trip a breaker. There may be a wiring problem that you are unaware of that needs attention by a professional.
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