Yeah nothing obvious in those locations so must be in the ceiling. I'd agree with rodent. Old houses that are still partially connected. Little *******s chewed through my bath pipe years ago and flooded the kitchen. It was worse for one of my neighbours. They had to do some serious renovations
Fuse box tripping?
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If you dont mind a bit of darkness (you could use lamps) and you aren't in a rush I'd split the circuit and wait.
If you dont fancy that try and find a decent electrician.
If you dont fancy that try and find a decent electrician.
Keep us updated, it's driving me nuts now
No it just involves disconnecting wires, in the ceiling roses.
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Assuming the light fittings are all roses.
And the wiring system is not the junction box method...
The only way for the OP to progress this, is to make a start, yet he seems somewhat reluctant.
Reluctant as I don't want muck about with my wiring. Which is why I'm waiting on a few electricians. Post originally started about advice to see if it was potentially something i may feel confident trying as I don't mind a bit of DIY, or if others may have seen this before
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Just had another look at your consumer unit.
The cover looks like it is pressed up against the test buttons for the 6A RCBOs.
Could it be exerting slight pressure on one of the buttons?
The cover looks like it is pressed up against the test buttons for the 6A RCBOs.
Could it be exerting slight pressure on one of the buttons?
Right so I've had 2 guys here for about 3 hours. They've been testing all sorts. They thought they had it traced to a faulty switch wire in the kitchen due to an unusual reading on their kit. The plan was to leave the kitchen light disconnected for a couple of days and monitor it
They were just putting everything back when the downstairs lights wouldn't come on at all. They now think it could be a shared neutral. I asked if it was shared why would the upstairs not trip? One of the lads started drawing a diagram and was genuinely stumped. They gave me the money back they originally asked for.
They say there's definitely a fault with the kitchen switch so we're still leaving that off.
They know someone who's an expert who should be able to traced this shared neutral so they are going to put me in touch with him.
Unfortunately still no further along at the moment.
They were just putting everything back when the downstairs lights wouldn't come on at all. They now think it could be a shared neutral. I asked if it was shared why would the upstairs not trip? One of the lads started drawing a diagram and was genuinely stumped. They gave me the money back they originally asked for.
They say there's definitely a fault with the kitchen switch so we're still leaving that off.
They know someone who's an expert who should be able to traced this shared neutral so they are going to put me in touch with him.
Unfortunately still no further along at the moment.
I dont see how it can be a shared neutral if it's a new problem, it would have always been an issue.
Right sorry I have a new update.
The lads came back with a new fuse switch to test because it was bugging them. They've found that when spark number 1 came out the other day to put everything on the upstairs switch, he's disconnected a blue returns cable, put it to one side and they can't suss out why. That's why nothing was working when they put it back on the downstairs switch. So pretty much forget everything above.
They are now back on the theory that the fault lies on the kitchen wiring.
The lads came back with a new fuse switch to test because it was bugging them. They've found that when spark number 1 came out the other day to put everything on the upstairs switch, he's disconnected a blue returns cable, put it to one side and they can't suss out why. That's why nothing was working when they put it back on the downstairs switch. So pretty much forget everything above.
They are now back on the theory that the fault lies on the kitchen wiring.
It's a circuit with 3 lights and presumably switches for those 3 lights.
Even if all 3 lights and all of the switches were opened for inspection and all of the possible tests were done on all of it, this should be an hour of someone's time at most.
What kind of testing could possibly take two people 3 hours?
Yes, this is an intermittent fault, so inspection and testing may not reveal anything - but even if that is so, the procedure still takes the same time.
Are they just repeating things over and over again and expecting different results?
Such a thing would cause tripping all the time, and would have done since it was installed.
Even if it somehow is that, locating such a problem would take less than 5 minutes.
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