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You could have sent this message earlier! I have checked the washing machine and guess what? Its not that. Everything is disconnected and its still tripping. what's worse, i put the damned thing back again and have just realised we are without a washing machine! I should have left the cable out...

Indeed. Unusual and frustrating. Its the worst case scenario when you have an intermittent anything: on a car, pc, or as in this case wiring, as pinpointing the fault looks like being a lottery and a great deal of hassle - which is why im still typing instead of kneeling on the floor unscrewing...

Update: unfortunately, it appears that the electrician did not switch the MCB's itself, he switched the wires instead. IE: took the wiring from the upstairs sockets and fixed them to the RCD protected MCB and so forth. Meaning if the MCB was faulty it would have tripped the sockets upstairs...

Hi Frank To be fair to the electrician - not a phrase I read often here - he did check the RCD and the system did work for a week before tripping again on Thursday evening. I'm hoping John's explanation of a faulty MCB is the cause of this intermittent fault. best T

Thanks John, yep, the tripped MCB was indeed moved to its current position from the RCD on the left. the electrician checked if the RCD was faulty but cleared it. Which makes sense as the upstairs sockets it now protects are working fine. I'm not sure if he actually checked the MCB itself...

Here's a photo of the tripped fuse box,third switch along is tripped. It was originally connected to the RCD on the left, but wehad it moved and it worked fine for a week..now it trips every few minutes, sometime

fuse box with the downstairs socket tripped

Hi This has been covered probably many times and I suspect I already know the answer, but justin case I've missed something: Our downstairs sockets appear to be tripping the fuse box, not the main switch but just the one dedicated to the downstairs sockets, which had an RCD on it. We've...