Recent content by willbewill

I think the damp sockets must have been causing a certain amount of leakage to earth and then the 'shock' of certain other things eg fluorescent lights caused the trip (there may also be a borrowed neutral with those lights from that ring main)- other times the trip happening just with the socket.

Update: Electrician came back - twice! But although he gave lots of suggestions and did loads of testing he didn't cure the fault - but... last Saturday my wife said she noticed some water under dishwasher (which is next to Washing mc in kitchen under work surface). I investigated and...

Thanks everybody - spoke to electrician today, is due to return to check this week. He did say that the problem evidenced itself when the unit was fitted but he thought he had tracked and sorted the problem - looks like there was more than one.

Thanks again - I'm in Wales :D

Thanks again - looks like I need to get an electrician in again to help find the problem wires :-(

Thanks for the quick reply - could it be that the wiring 'shares' a neutral somewhere in the house and that the new CU has 'highlighted' this? Should this have been picked up in the commissioning tests?

It just happened again but this time no lights were switched but CH was on - maybe that circuit as the controller was changed a few days ago?

I've recently had a new consumer unit fitted - the old 'fuse' one gone and a RCD one installed (Clickit with 2 sets of RCDs) - however I now get an intermittent problem: A couple of nights ago when I switched a light on the 'other' set of RCDs tripped i.e. not the set that the lights are on...