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Hi, firstly I apologise for not knowing ANYTHING. I'm embarrassed by my lack of knowledge. I'm a 22 year old girl living by myself and unfortunately my parents are no longer here to ask these types of things.
I was sitting in my living room tonight when I heard a noise in the kitchen. At first I thought something had fallen but I couldn't see anything. 5 minutes later it happened again. I stood in the kitchen this time and around 5 minutes later another pop sound and this time I saw it was coming from the left side of a double plug socket. Orange sparks came out at the same time as the pop. The pop and sparks lasted only around a second. Probably stupidly I waited and after around 5 minutes the exact same thing again. My kettle was plugged in on the left side where the sparks came out. Nothing was plugged in the other side.
I switched off the electric entirely, waited a while and then removed the plug and switched both sides of the socket to 'Off'. There's a visible burn mark on the left side of the socket.
I then switched the electric back on. Within a few minutes the exact same thing happened again. A pop sound and a lot of orange sparks came out. I took a video and in slow-mo you can literally see the sparks come out of the plug (the three holes where you plug in, sorry I'm sure there's a better term). It was so scary because in slow-mo you could even see them land on the counter top. In real time it happened so quickly that it wasn't visible to the naked eye like that.
Since then I turned the electricity off completely so I'm literally sitting in darkness now and really panicked about how close it seems to have been to a fire as I was just about to go to bed before I heard the first pop and went to investigate.
I'm of course going to call an electrician first thing but I was wondering if anybody had any ideas of what might be wrong and possibly how much it might cost to fix it? As a person on their own (and clearly not knowledgeable at all) I always worry about being silly.
Thanks in advance and best wishes
Ava
I was sitting in my living room tonight when I heard a noise in the kitchen. At first I thought something had fallen but I couldn't see anything. 5 minutes later it happened again. I stood in the kitchen this time and around 5 minutes later another pop sound and this time I saw it was coming from the left side of a double plug socket. Orange sparks came out at the same time as the pop. The pop and sparks lasted only around a second. Probably stupidly I waited and after around 5 minutes the exact same thing again. My kettle was plugged in on the left side where the sparks came out. Nothing was plugged in the other side.
I switched off the electric entirely, waited a while and then removed the plug and switched both sides of the socket to 'Off'. There's a visible burn mark on the left side of the socket.
I then switched the electric back on. Within a few minutes the exact same thing happened again. A pop sound and a lot of orange sparks came out. I took a video and in slow-mo you can literally see the sparks come out of the plug (the three holes where you plug in, sorry I'm sure there's a better term). It was so scary because in slow-mo you could even see them land on the counter top. In real time it happened so quickly that it wasn't visible to the naked eye like that.
Since then I turned the electricity off completely so I'm literally sitting in darkness now and really panicked about how close it seems to have been to a fire as I was just about to go to bed before I heard the first pop and went to investigate.
I'm of course going to call an electrician first thing but I was wondering if anybody had any ideas of what might be wrong and possibly how much it might cost to fix it? As a person on their own (and clearly not knowledgeable at all) I always worry about being silly.
Thanks in advance and best wishes
Ava