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Hello all
I am hoping to get an understanding of what the problem could be rather than advise on anything I should do as I am not going to attempt to fix it.
Basically, I moved into a new property a couple of months ago, renting. I was told they had fitted a new PCB board? or something like that as the last tenant complained she could plug almost nothing in without the switching and all the electrics going off. The landlord said he had put new PCB board in (not sure if its called a PCB board) and fixed the issue.
Anyhow, the boiler broke and someone came to fix it yesterday. 1 hour later I was just sitting down, not plugging anything in and all of a sudden all the sockets went off, the lights were fine. I checked the fuse box and 2 of the switches were down (PLEASE SEE PIC LINK AS I HAVE PUT AN ARROW NEXT TO WHICH ONES) and I pressed up the one on the left and it stayed up and then tried to press the one on the right up but when I did the switch on the left I just pressed up switched down again.
So I turned all sockets off and then both switches did stay up. So I slowly started to turn everything back on and until I got to the boiler and when I pugged that back in the switch went down again and all the sockets turned off again.
So I unplugged everything again and put the 2 switches back up again and they stayed up, so then started to turn plugs back on and back came on the comuter etc etc until I got to a wall socket which had an extension cable plugged into it which had my laptop and a few other things plugged in the same two switches on the electric board turned off again. So I turned off that said plug and put the two switches back up again and turned everything back on again and it didn't trip again. But I noticed that 2 hall wall sockets, 4 sockets in the living room, 2 in the bedroom, 2 in the 2nd bedroom were not working, but all the other sockets in the house were ok. The boiler was not working as the socket it was plugged into was not working so I used an extension cable and plugged the boiler into a socket that was working and thankfully the electric switches didn't flip again and the boiler has been working fine for 6 hours now.
All the switches on the fuse box are on now and in the picture even though half the sockets in the house are not working. Ofcourse I informed the letting agents who have not responded to my calls/texts/emails. I actually told them I had no electric, no heating, hot water at 1pm and they think I am living in darkness right now and didnt respond. I didnt update them with what has happened since I managed to get things working again to some extent as I was going to tell them when they got in touch.
I had a problem before with something else and they never responded at all(they dont have a office to walk into, they are just a virtual office and only contact is via email/phone/text but seldom do they reply), so I am thinking I am going to have to get in a electrician to sort this. However, I would like peoples thoughts on this as I would like to understand what could be the problem or what it sounds like as I am curious to understand more.
Any info appreciated.
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https://postimg.org/image/3vy10j6v1/
I am hoping to get an understanding of what the problem could be rather than advise on anything I should do as I am not going to attempt to fix it.
Basically, I moved into a new property a couple of months ago, renting. I was told they had fitted a new PCB board? or something like that as the last tenant complained she could plug almost nothing in without the switching and all the electrics going off. The landlord said he had put new PCB board in (not sure if its called a PCB board) and fixed the issue.
Anyhow, the boiler broke and someone came to fix it yesterday. 1 hour later I was just sitting down, not plugging anything in and all of a sudden all the sockets went off, the lights were fine. I checked the fuse box and 2 of the switches were down (PLEASE SEE PIC LINK AS I HAVE PUT AN ARROW NEXT TO WHICH ONES) and I pressed up the one on the left and it stayed up and then tried to press the one on the right up but when I did the switch on the left I just pressed up switched down again.
So I turned all sockets off and then both switches did stay up. So I slowly started to turn everything back on and until I got to the boiler and when I pugged that back in the switch went down again and all the sockets turned off again.
So I unplugged everything again and put the 2 switches back up again and they stayed up, so then started to turn plugs back on and back came on the comuter etc etc until I got to a wall socket which had an extension cable plugged into it which had my laptop and a few other things plugged in the same two switches on the electric board turned off again. So I turned off that said plug and put the two switches back up again and turned everything back on again and it didn't trip again. But I noticed that 2 hall wall sockets, 4 sockets in the living room, 2 in the bedroom, 2 in the 2nd bedroom were not working, but all the other sockets in the house were ok. The boiler was not working as the socket it was plugged into was not working so I used an extension cable and plugged the boiler into a socket that was working and thankfully the electric switches didn't flip again and the boiler has been working fine for 6 hours now.
All the switches on the fuse box are on now and in the picture even though half the sockets in the house are not working. Ofcourse I informed the letting agents who have not responded to my calls/texts/emails. I actually told them I had no electric, no heating, hot water at 1pm and they think I am living in darkness right now and didnt respond. I didnt update them with what has happened since I managed to get things working again to some extent as I was going to tell them when they got in touch.
I had a problem before with something else and they never responded at all(they dont have a office to walk into, they are just a virtual office and only contact is via email/phone/text but seldom do they reply), so I am thinking I am going to have to get in a electrician to sort this. However, I would like peoples thoughts on this as I would like to understand what could be the problem or what it sounds like as I am curious to understand more.
Any info appreciated.
https://postimg.org/gallery/2uoeyixb6/
https://postimg.org/image/3vy10j6v1/