Recent content by Moorea21

Think I'll just leave it and let sparky sort it out when he gets back.

Yes, from the outside of the house there is no chimney visible on that side of the house and the breast extends up to the roof line in the attic. Also there's an electric heater in the fireplace downstairs, rarely used, but might be an issue. Forgot that bit.

I'm in the process of working out where the cables are in my house prior to having new socket rings fitted, the electrician I'm hiring is on holiday and won't want to answer non urgent customer questions, so I thought I'd ask here. I have a socket at 1st floor level on the side of a disused...

The tripping started about a year ago, very intermittent, but became increasingly frequent from about 3 months ago. Started the plastering 2 weeks ago. The downstairs has some damp in the bottom of the walls, but I never use the sockets at floor level anyway, as they're all hidden behind things...

If it is the wiring, which I kind of expect for some reason, that's going to be difficult to test as it's an old house, and a fair number of the sockets downstairs are on spurs. Not sure if the wiring for the upstairs sockets runs in the loft and down or under the floor and up; either way access...

It is the only socket circuit, yes. I'm very very cautious with mains electrics; trained service engineer for electronics, domestic wiring's never interested me.

Can't seem to get quotes to work, so my reply is all written inline. Sorry about that. Thanks Harry, yes, that's a good point. Taylortwocities; that may be an option, but it's something I'd leave to someone who knows what they're doing ericmark It seems most likely the MCB is faulty, so...

I would do, but unfortunately they're all wildly different current ratings; wouldn't prove anything.

That was what I was thinking. Swapping something that may be dud for something else that may be dud isn't a great bet, although if it stops the tripping, maybe its worth it. As for affording it, I can't afford to burn the house down, so that's always part of the equation.

Hi, I have an old Wickes consumer unit with Get Schupa breakers, the one for the sockets used to trip occasionally, now trips reliably after about 1/2 hour, even with nothing plugges into any socket at all. It's a B32 (32B1M), which is obsolete, I know. It doesn't trip the RCD or anything...