I had our convector heater on in the conservatory earlier and after about 20 minutes of it being switched on we noticed a fishy smell coming from the switch socket just inside the house.
The electric setup in the conservatory is basically a double plug socket in the conservatory wired to a switch with a fuse just inside the house which in turn is wired to a double wall socket on the wall just above it. All fitted by a sparky when the conservatory was built 3 years ago.
It's only the convector heater (2000w) that causes the smell - we use our laptop in the conservatory connected to power all the time and it has never caused the smell.
We have a stereo plugged into the double socket just inside the house and this never causes any smells.
I'm assuming the smell is going to be caused by something burning in the wall switch/fuse box.
Is this likely to be something I can fix myself or is it an electrician only job?
I'm presuming that as its the switch/fuse box that smells - not the double wall socket that it's wired to - that there problem must be within the switch/fuse box?
The electric setup in the conservatory is basically a double plug socket in the conservatory wired to a switch with a fuse just inside the house which in turn is wired to a double wall socket on the wall just above it. All fitted by a sparky when the conservatory was built 3 years ago.
It's only the convector heater (2000w) that causes the smell - we use our laptop in the conservatory connected to power all the time and it has never caused the smell.
We have a stereo plugged into the double socket just inside the house and this never causes any smells.
I'm assuming the smell is going to be caused by something burning in the wall switch/fuse box.
Is this likely to be something I can fix myself or is it an electrician only job?
I'm presuming that as its the switch/fuse box that smells - not the double wall socket that it's wired to - that there problem must be within the switch/fuse box?