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not always, I replaced the electric shower with a thermostatic one, but that was 6+ months ago, unrelated, 13 of them are on “house sockets” and 5 are on “kitchen sockets” and that’s all the sockets I have, I haven’t got a multimeter, but if it’s going to get me closer to and answer I will...

Yes there are more sockets but they all work fine, the kitchen one work off a separate mcb but the rest including the dead ones run off another mcb

Yeah they did work, then all of sudden not, no drilling in the wall or floor when it stopped working, my electrical DIY is achievable with guidance

Hi, I have an issue regarding 4 sockets in my house, 3 upstairs and 1 down stairs, 3 of them are completely dead and 1 of them when I plug a socket tester in it tells me that it’s missing an earth, but it works fine…. Checked all in the boxes and wires are secure

Update: the sparky never turned up, but miraculously the sockets are working again, never touched anything! I don’t know wether to be happy or concerned

Update: An electrician is coming out tomorrow.

You’d be surprised at what the old owners of this house have done

4 live?

I mean that would make more sense, from what I’m experiencing, I’ll have a look at the consumer unit shortly

Thank you for your reply, so I’ve ordered some basic electrical testing equipment, see if I can find the problem, the sockets that don’t work are quite far away from each other confusing, can you have 2 ring mains on 1 MCB

Nothing that I’m aware of

It hasn’t got a switch, and yes the cables are secure, yes it looks like I’m going to need someone to come out

No, the only thing connected was the shower

I no longer have an electric shower

There is one of them next to one of the bad sockets, I replaced the fuse still no joy

I plugged in my PC nothing out the ordinary and not all of a sudden 4 sockets don’t work

Okay so I’ve noticed more are not working now 2 upstairs and 2 downstairs, I do not own a multimeter

Last night I turned one of my sockets on and then all of a sudden it stopped working, nothings tripped, and then I find out another one isn’t working, so I turn off the power and search behind the 2 sockets to try and find an obvious issue, but all looks good everything secure, but it’s only the...

Well I was kinda looking for a easy/cheap way, but would you say my plan would work? Because I’d still like my boiler to heat water coming from the taps