For over a week now we have been having problems with our main lighting. We would switch on the living room lights, then the fluorescents (2 on one switch) in the kitchen. The living room lights would flicker madly, then go out altogether. Other times the living room lights would go out when the landing light was switched on and, last night, the landing light went out when a bedroom light was put on. When all this happened, none of the other lights in the house worked either. My husband's tightened all the connections, changed the dimmer switch in the living room back to an ordinary one, changed one of the fluorescents in the kitchen for an ordinary light socket, changed bulbs etc. Each time the lights went off they came on again of their own accord a few hours later. We thought we'd cracked it until it started again today. This time, I was stood next to the fuse box in the cupboard under the stairs and, as the lights flickered, a "clicking" noise came from the fuse box. This is one of the old-fashioned fuse boxes, the house being 50 years old but this is the first time we've had any problems with it. My husband checked all the fuses, but could find nothing wrong with them.
Can my husband fix this or is it time to throw in the towel and have a new consumer unit fitted?
Can my husband fix this or is it time to throw in the towel and have a new consumer unit fitted?