Recent content by Kev Brown

No I haven't changed any of the fittings. I have an electrician coming in next week for my new kitchen to be fitted so I'll get him to look. Thanks for your help

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Yes I'm changing to Crome switches. It would appear the problem is with an old switch. In the kitchen, along with this switch I've changed, there is another switch for the lights, with 3 switches on it. 1 for the kitchen, 1 for the conservatory and the other doesn't appear to do anything. It...

Thanks for your reply and yes I've just found that it's not the problem. I've put the old switch bad on and it's still tripping. if I put just that switch on it's fine and works, if I put the rest of the lights on in the house they trip.

Hi, I'm looking to replace the light switch and sockets in my kitchen, modernising them basically. Not a hard job at all however when I turn the lights on they trip the fuse box. On examination I noticed that the new switch states 10ax, where as the old one was 5ax. This is clearly the problem...