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Chaffed wire !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You sound disappointed ?

There was a rubber gromet in it , The damage was just below where the gromet was at , So it must have been a nick , What amazes me is it's been like that for 10 or so years , Maybe it was the christmas dinner condensation that seeped into the nick ,, which caused the trip in the first place ...

Forgot to add , The earth wire I said previous was not from the socket , It was the piece of earth wire that was neighbour to this live piece , Which obviously broke when it shorted , Thats why it had the charred look about it , But I didn't put 2 + 2 together at that point

Sorry guys , I had to have another look at it , As it was really beginning to bug me . This time I looked a little deeper , I removed the socket again and looked at the twin and earth from the hole at the bottom of the box , As I pulled it up the live snapped off in my hand were it had become...

**** !!! **** !!! ****!!!! It's bloody gone again , New ****ing socket , Wires all in The problem must be somewhere else ****KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK IT !!! Gonna have to call in someone **** !

I've been with Sky for the last umpteen years , Now I want to upgrade to Sky + etc etc , However they are telling me that when I upgrade I must have the phone line plugged into the sky box and the fixed socket in my house , I try to explain that I have already done this umpteen years ago and I...

I had appliances on each one , If the appliance didn't come on I figured there was no power to it , I did this on every socket in the house , Every light switch all the outside (garage power) , And then finally with the terminal driver on the live of the socket when I removed it from the wall ...

Okay first up - Thank you ALL for your advice UPDATE - In order of events I turned off the main power and then I went round and tested sockets/lights on different circuits to test they were off Then I undone the double socket in question and immediately noticed that one of the...

Whoa steady people !!! I'm not the type of person who asks why my gas oven isn't working then sticks my head in it just because someone tells me to . I make my decisons and stay within my comfort zone , Working with a invisible killer like electrcity is something I do not mess with ...

To add - Yes I am just looking , If I don't feel confident then I won't touch it , Anyone near Brentwood Essex ?

LOL !! Wife wouldn't let me pull the power , Apparently there was something that had to be watched on TV !! It's too dark now and I don't fancy doing it by torchlight , Will have a crack at it tomorrow , Although I did have a sniff at the socket and it does have a hint of a burnt smell to it so...

Trust me I know its serious , I need to have a little light heartness about it . RIGHT !! Serious question , In my defence I already said I am not an electrician . So this might seem like a stupid question but I am 40 on the 2nd Jan and I would like to see my 40th . Im going to take a look...

No it doesn't have a RCD Well the MCB was reset yesterday at about 7pm and it stayed on , But hten at about 2am it tripped again (5hours it was tripping after an hour before) , As I said before I set up the home energy usage box in the vain hope I might see a HUGE spike before it tripped ...

Well its def not a nail Rodents - Never say never Cable chaffing - Never say never Any idea how much this might cost me ? Sorry had another idea , Could it be the face plate off the socket I was talking about with the kettle plugged in ?The wife has just decided to tell me she...