Bought three flush mounted sockets to replace the stock white plastic ones in a room that im decorating.
Fitted them a couple of weeks ago and all working fine. No issues.
Last night was decorating and loosened the fixing screws just so the sockets could be displaced and allow me to paint around thw socket.
On moving one of the sockets probably no more than 10mm a loud pop and lots of sparks came from behind the socket.
The circuit the sockets was on tripped and also the main entry fuse in the meter box tripped.
On inspection the socket live terminal is quite charred. All wires however were firmly clamped in place.
There are no scorch marks on any of the wires
I hadn't started painting and all tools were clear of the socket.
Other that a faulty socket which I doubt as it was working fine for a couple of weeks what else could have caused this?
Fitted them a couple of weeks ago and all working fine. No issues.
Last night was decorating and loosened the fixing screws just so the sockets could be displaced and allow me to paint around thw socket.
On moving one of the sockets probably no more than 10mm a loud pop and lots of sparks came from behind the socket.
The circuit the sockets was on tripped and also the main entry fuse in the meter box tripped.
On inspection the socket live terminal is quite charred. All wires however were firmly clamped in place.
There are no scorch marks on any of the wires
I hadn't started painting and all tools were clear of the socket.
Other that a faulty socket which I doubt as it was working fine for a couple of weeks what else could have caused this?