THE BREAKER THATS FOR THE LIGHTS IN MY HOUSE KEEPS TRIPPING EVEN WHEN THE LIGHTS ARE SWITCHED OFF AND THE BREAKER IS RESET, I HAVE CHECKED THE WIRING IN THE LIGHTS BUT CANNOT SEE ANY FAULTS.
The breaker is for the lights only, it only started tripping a few days ago, I put the breaker back into the on position with all the lights off, after approx 10mins it trips, its the same scenario for when the lights are on.
I had this kinda thing happen a couple of months back with an installation tripping randomly at irregular intervals.
The fault was eventually discovered to be water that had got into the building cavity on the conservatory and was pouring into a light switch. The building had been up 8 years, but there had been a lot of torrential rain and enough was enough.
You may find that if the tripping is irregular, and not on energising the circuit or turning on a switch, that it could possibly be rodents or moisture getting to some cabling/connections.
If any of your light fittings have been changed in the last year then look there as well, as loose connections can take a long time to finally burn out.
Please pay attention to the safe isolation procedure, of which the information can be found on here if you look for it, before you carry out any work.
you need to get a sparky in to check the circuit out.. could be a break down in old conductors or any other number of reasons..
you haven't put up any shelves or pictures of clocks or anything on a wall anywhere in the last 6 months have you?
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