Hello,
Looking for some advice please.
I was away for a few weeks, my family came to stay a couple of weeks in and found the ground floor electrics had gone out. RCD had tripped with all downstairs electrics. The only items I’d left plugged in and on were smart meter, fridge and boiler.
Isolated the problem to living room /hallway sockets (kitchen was fine), as RCD wouldn’t turn on with ground floor sockets switched on. Unplugged everything and still no fix.
Then had an electrician come out - not 100% clear on the exact issue as second hand information via my family. Said the issue was two sockets at the back of the living room. What he told my family was there was too high a current running through them. When took the sockets off he found one had a ‘burnt’ cable which he tried to follow down to isolate cause but wasn’t able to without having to take the floorboards up.
I’ve contacted him again for some more information regarding what exactly he thinks the issue is. He sent me a video and said the live wire was connected to the earth wire. I believe he’s disconnected the two sockets, the other sockets in the living room are now working.
Can anyone advice on
- Is the situation safe for the moment with him having disconnected the two sockets (I don’t want a fire to start)
- What could be the cause? I recently moved to the house 9 months ago with no electrical issues until now. The house was completely rewired 9 years ago and have electrical certiticates from the time and we haven’t had any renovation done nor did previous owners.
- What might be needed to fix this?
Looking for some advice please.
I was away for a few weeks, my family came to stay a couple of weeks in and found the ground floor electrics had gone out. RCD had tripped with all downstairs electrics. The only items I’d left plugged in and on were smart meter, fridge and boiler.
Isolated the problem to living room /hallway sockets (kitchen was fine), as RCD wouldn’t turn on with ground floor sockets switched on. Unplugged everything and still no fix.
Then had an electrician come out - not 100% clear on the exact issue as second hand information via my family. Said the issue was two sockets at the back of the living room. What he told my family was there was too high a current running through them. When took the sockets off he found one had a ‘burnt’ cable which he tried to follow down to isolate cause but wasn’t able to without having to take the floorboards up.
I’ve contacted him again for some more information regarding what exactly he thinks the issue is. He sent me a video and said the live wire was connected to the earth wire. I believe he’s disconnected the two sockets, the other sockets in the living room are now working.
Can anyone advice on
- Is the situation safe for the moment with him having disconnected the two sockets (I don’t want a fire to start)
- What could be the cause? I recently moved to the house 9 months ago with no electrical issues until now. The house was completely rewired 9 years ago and have electrical certiticates from the time and we haven’t had any renovation done nor did previous owners.
- What might be needed to fix this?
