Hi all.
I've got a problem in my house. There are three sockets on my kitchen wall that have stopped working.
All other sockets in the house work fine, including two others in the kitchen (on the opposite wall to those that are broken).
The kitchen sockets that don't work are on the external wall. So looking at the house from the front door, they are on the right hand side wall.
I checked upstairs, above the kitchen and there are no sockets on that wall.
I had an electrician round, who did some tests on the fusebox and we took tiles off the wall around the broken sockets to trace the cables, and they seem to be fed from above (i.e. the cables come down to the sockets).
Now, would it be fair to think these sockets are a branch off the ring main upstairs, and that the branch may not have been done properly?
I think I am going to have to take the floorboards up in the room above the kitchen, but this room has laminate flooring and therefore I'll have to break it.
We are hoping to sell the house this year so I don't want to spend a lot, but obviously I can't sell with some sockets not working.
Advise / experience please?
I've got a problem in my house. There are three sockets on my kitchen wall that have stopped working.
All other sockets in the house work fine, including two others in the kitchen (on the opposite wall to those that are broken).
The kitchen sockets that don't work are on the external wall. So looking at the house from the front door, they are on the right hand side wall.
I checked upstairs, above the kitchen and there are no sockets on that wall.
I had an electrician round, who did some tests on the fusebox and we took tiles off the wall around the broken sockets to trace the cables, and they seem to be fed from above (i.e. the cables come down to the sockets).
Now, would it be fair to think these sockets are a branch off the ring main upstairs, and that the branch may not have been done properly?
I think I am going to have to take the floorboards up in the room above the kitchen, but this room has laminate flooring and therefore I'll have to break it.
We are hoping to sell the house this year so I don't want to spend a lot, but obviously I can't sell with some sockets not working.
Advise / experience please?