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it just seems odd that both immersion heaters would be faulty. as they are wired individually, they can be tested individually and they are both tripping the RCD when they are switched on individually. the dynorod plumber says they are brand new as i suspected he may have used second hand ones...

as mentioned above because there was no hot water from the tank and so dynorod said the immersion heaters were broke. at that time, there was no tripping of the RCD, there was just no hot water. dynorod replaced the two immersion heaters and could not turn them on as the RCD tripped. so I got...

the main RCD.

only one immersion heater was working. the other one broke ages ago but we never bothered to call them out to fix it. so now that we have called them out they have replaced both. i did check the power rating as i asked the dynorod plumber what rating the immersion heaters were and he said...

Dynorod had come out to replace two immersion heaters and they did a very poor job. The power tripped when the immersion heaters were turned on so they said it was the wiring and we needed to get an electrician round to test the circuit. The electrician tested the circuit back to the consumer...

Is it possible for an electrician to identify where the fault is without having access to cables under the floors?

The consumer unit has tripped for the power downstairs. There were two switches on the consumer unit that both tripped and somehow the downstairs power and kitchen are related to one another as they both went out. The electrician came and has fixed the power to the kitchen but he says that the...

I have only one red and one black cable from the wall while my timer fan has switched live and permanent live cables. As you had suggested, should I connect both the switched live and permanent live on the fan to the red cable on the wall? Will this work, as I found that by connecting either...