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Hi Accumulated earth leakage? Can this just come on with no previous issues? Sorry for the beyond basic question, but that's the limit of my capabilities.

Hi I'll try to answer different points raised I don't have a smart meter it's a generation meter for my solar panels... Re the CU...I'm going to have it upgraded to one with RCBOs Re the floor....God only knows... there may have been wiring under the floor boards but definitely not in the crawl...

Thanks all...there was a suspended floor but long time ago expensive flooring was laid with x 2 lots of panels to raise the floor and then full screed!!! I've currently put my fridge freezer on an extension and running it off my sockets upstairs. It seems to last a couple of days then trips...

Hi Not that I'm aware of. It was middle of the night. Heard a noise...looked at my bedside alarm clock and it was off, as was the whole house. I really thought we had sorted it. I may have to bite the bullet and pay for the downstairs sockets to be rewired. Jan

Well Gents/ ladies...it's tripped again...I just woke up, it's the midday of the night and realized I had no electricity again.

Hello all I had another more experienced and very expensive electrician out yesterday ,( my 66 th birthday spent knee high in death and destruction of my house lol) and he found corroded back boxes that were from ac rewire likely 30 plus years ago look to have caused the earth leakage. He...

The lad who certified everything has written all sorts on the document...the first lad won't even give me a receipt for work done!?

Hi and thanks. No clamp on meter used but the multi meter looks a bit like your last picture and he told me it cost upwards of a thousand pounds. Just utterly stressed about being unable to fully isolate it as to be fair, was this ast man who worked solidly and to my untrained eye, methodically...

Hi John, yes, spent days looking for a long qualified man who would have experience of problems such as mine in an old house..I even rang NICEIC...they weren't much help. Not heard of chequertrad I'll go look now Thank you

Sorry Missed the age of the house... around 100 years

The wiring is 30 years old. Was upgraded with an extension 17 years ago when the new CU was fitted. I agree re the problem not existing, or not making itself known before the new lights and the wires that were disconnected being connected...but the young sparks sdy this is not the issue I agree...

Other wiring in the cupboard Thanks John..best I can do with my phone. Sorry. I'm pretty useless. The other thing you ask about are my solar panels..the second spark says they are protected by their own RCD... install done by a very good company, all certified and no problems since 2013. I will...

Thank you so much for your reply...I do have two way switch for my upstairs and downstairs lights in the hall with the outside lights running off the upstairs lighting circuit. Please see picture of my CU It's the RCD in the middle that is tripping. Jan

Hello Elderly woman here, read lots of forums like this looking for advice but currently none the wiser,! I had Led PIR lights installed recently, replacing old security lights and a decorative light at the front door using the original wiring. An electrician did the work. The lights run off my...