Plug sockets not working!!

[hamertime]

Hi

I'm a bit of a novice so bare with me and I apologise in advance.

Basically I have just moved house and in my basement I have 2 rooms both with plug sockets in each. Although they both used to work fine all of a sudden in one of the rooms both of the plug sockets have stopped working for some reason but the other room is fine.

All the other sockets in the house work so I am not sure what has happened.

I looked at my electricity box in the garage as I presumed it should just be a fuse, but tried to pull out the various switches for the different parts of the house but they dont seem to come out and it kinder looks like they not supposed too, which is strange.

It doesn't look like the normal fuse boxes I have seen in the past as all of the ones I have seen before have fuses you can pull out and change for each part of the house maybe its a bit newer than the ones I am used to seeing.

I have also checked the actual plug sockets and they look like they are connected up OK.

Anyway any advice would be much appreciated as I didn't really want to call someone out just for these plugs.

Thanks guys.

Lee

 

[Steve]

you have MCBs, not fuses. They dont pull out. Is one of them in the OFF position? If so, flick it back ON and see what happens.

If not, you have a problem, and, judging by your level of knowledge, I advise you to call an electrician.

 

[securespark]

Sounds like your basement may be a radial. If a socket feeding the room where all the outlets are dead has a loose connection, that may explain it.

Try and get hold of a Martindale socket tester and examine the reading.

 

[JohnD]

If you can lay your hands on a digital camera and post a pic of your "fusebox" and of its surroundings including cables in/out, and of any visible wiring in the cellar, that will be a great help. We like pictures.