Fuse for kitchen keeps blowing

[Markir]

For the last 3 nights around the same time our fusebox has gone. We have isolated the problem to the kitchen but twice we have been unable to get the electrics going until the next morning. (the fuse keeps popping)

I switched off all the elctrical items on the kitchen fuse bar the washing machine and it kept blowing. I then realised that the fuses had gone after we did the washing up so potentially water could have gone down the back and got into the WM fuse. Then it had to dry out before we could get it going again. Does this sound like a reasonable theory or could it be something more sinister. We gave the washing up a miss for a day and it was fine.

I'm going to remove the washing machine from the circuit and plug everything else back in to see what happens.

 

[Steve]

For the last 3 nights around the same time our fusebox has gone.

Where did it go? Have you considered a security system? This would stop it mysteriously vanishing undetected.



On a more serious note, what exactly is tripping / blowing? What sort of "fusebox" do you have? What brand and what colour is its casing? What exactly is written on the device that "blows"?