Heating boiler and lighting circuits?

[MrsB2009]

We have recently had our oil fired heating boiler replaced 2 days ago...since then our lights downstairs have fused twice...

Is this just coincidence or is if possible that the new boiler could be affect the lighting circuits?? The upstairs circuit has been fine every time...

 

[AndyPRK]

When the lights go off goes the boiler stop too?

 

[MrsB2009]

No the Boiler still works and the sockets etc still work...only the lights going off...maybe a coincidence

 

[Burnerman]

When the breaker trips, is there a light bulb broken too?
John

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

We have recently had our oil fired heating boiler replaced 2 days ago...since then our lights downstairs have fused twice...

Is this just coincidence or is if possible that the new boiler could be affect the lighting circuits?? The upstairs circuit has been fine every time...

1)What circuit is the boiler on? If boiler not connected to lights, likely a coincidence.
2)Does the downstairs lighting cables travel through the area where the boiler was replaced? As cable could have been damaged.
3) Are there any light fitting, junctions, switches etc that are connected to the downstairs, in and around the location of where the boiler was fitted and whilst boiler was replaced any spillage of water or leaks? As this could have ingressed an accessory.

 

[ricicle]

Were any floorboards lifted and pipes re-routed for the replacement or new fixings drilled in the wall?

 

[MrsB2009]

The wires were supposedly extended (aroun the garage wall) from the original switch for the boiler...I really don't know anything about electrics so no idea how to answer the previous posts questions...other than the plumber doing the work isn't taking any responsibility for it so I'm not having to pay for an electrician to come out and fix it

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

If you have no idea with regards to electrics, then your only option is to employ someone who does.

It maybe purely coincidental, but the electrician will hopefully resolve the issue and give you a conclusion on the source of it. If then becomes apparent that the boiler installer was responsible for introducing the fault, then you would be advised to ask the plumber for compensation, for the remedial work carried out by the electrician.

 

[Burnerman]

If the boiler continues to work, then it can't be sharing the same fuse as the lights....
It sounds just like a coincidence, but the next time it happens, try and recall what you have just done, like turning on a bathroom fan and the like - anything that could share the lighting circuit, really.
Another possibility is that you have so many lights running off that one circuit that the current draw is exceding that particular breaker......tell us - is it one of the small individual switched breakers thats tripping inside your consumer unit, or is it a RCCB (which may be in the consumer unit or remote from it?)
John