Three things blown up in two months!

Hi all hope someone can help with an electrical problem, first of all the oven element packed up on a 1 year old "Leisure" cooker, then the toaster expired in a puff of smoke and a blue flash from inside the toaster & tripped the sockets & this morning a blue flash came from the iron & tripped the sockets again but the iron is still working ok.

Are all three things related or is it just pure coincidence?

You don't live in an area where there is a lot of copper theft do you ??

Hard to say if it is coincidence or not, but it does seem strange. It may pay you to have give your local electrical distributor a call, ask for their engineering/technical section and tell them what as happened, they may just advise you to call in a local electrician to check over your system, which would be my other next step advice.

It's hard to say on a forum what the problem would be, but it would seem consistent of an over voltage problem, which if it is the case only monitoring your installation would prove.

BigRich84 said:

Hi all hope someone can help with an electrical problem, first of all the oven element packed up on a 1 year old "Leisure" cooker, then the toaster expired in a puff of smoke and a blue flash from inside the toaster & tripped the sockets & this morning a blue flash came from the iron & tripped the sockets again but the iron is still working ok.

Are all three things related or is it just pure coincidence?

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As has been said, you should call ASAP and have your supplier check your supply voltage for instabilities. In fact they may have had calls from others in your street? You should not to use the iron until it has been tested safe. A blue flash from an iron probably means that something inside was damaged or is now loose no matter what the cause. Have you noticed light bulbs getting brighter/simmer at all? Any failed electronic equipment? Sometimes it is just coincidence that things fail in a "cluster"