Recent content by StephenMorris

Conclusion: The MCB stopped had just stopped working! If you remember, I'd flicked it off to turn the power off and do some work and it wouldn't flick back on again, it kept jumping to the off position. We took the wire from one the broken MCB and placed them in a working breaker to determine...

Knowing nothing about MCBs, can they be individually replaced? I have somebody in mind who's 'fairly handy' but if he can't fix it then it's probably time to call an electrician.

I turned the lights off and gently chiseled into the wall above the light switch to see if there were cables there. There weren't, just a brick wall. So then I flicked the switch back on, but it tripped down again.

Thanks for the replies. I'm going to say that it's the MCB wont flick back up. As for the work I did that required the lights to be turned off in the first place, I never actually started the work - I just flicked off the downstairs lighting and flicked it back on 20mins later. Can this...

I needed to switch off the power going to the lights. I went to the little box under the stairs and flicked down the two switches labelled 'lighting' and 'downstairs lighting'. I've now flicked the switches back on and the 'downstairs lighting' switch seems to have tripped and wont turn back...