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I’m sorry I have no clue what a double pole switch is :-/

I haven’t had an electrician out yet, simply because I switched the sockets back on last Friday and they haven’t tripped since. I don’t want to call someone out whilst the fault isn’t showing. There is an outside light which is wired from an upstairs plug socket, but it can be switched off...

I’m guessing it would be something needing to cool down then, I genuinely can’t see that it would be a water problem as no sockets are near a water source and we’ve certainly had no rain recently. Can a socket get hot if nothing is plugged into it? And if this is the case should I be concerned...

When it trips, if I try to switch the RCD back on it won’t stay, trips immediately. Leaving the sockets off let’s me turn it back on. But if I leave if for a few hours it will let me turn the sockets back on and then it can be anywhere between a couple of hours and several days before it goes...

It’s the one on the far right that goes and turns everything off. But if I leave the upstairs (written downstairs) sockets off it’s fine. No I’ve not altered it yet, I kind of wore myself out running up and down the stairs lol.

There is one main switch that covers the whole board and that’s what trips, but the single switch that if I switch off stops it tripping is upstairs sockets. Although some pillock labelled it downstairs sockets so that was fun to work out! My cat is also blaming the dog, but he looks far too...

Thank you, and yes I think it will end up being an electrician job. Can these type of faults be intermittent though? I switched the upstairs sockets back on last Friday, and quite happily ran a fan, hair dryer, radio using the sockets all over the weekend and up til 8pm last night when they...

Looking for some advice with a randomly tripping RCD. Last week I got up to find the electrics had tripped during the night. No individual switch had tripped, just the main one. By process of elimination I narrowed it down to the upstairs sockets. I left them off and when I returned from work...