Hi there.

I have a Double Plug socket in my bedroom which i had previously only used one of the sockets.
Last night i plugged 2 things in and it went bang!

It has also caused another Double plug socket in the bedroom not to work.?
Can anyone advise what this could be and whether its something i can fix myself or if i need to call an electrician?
many Thanks

you need to turn the power off completely.

once it is off then unscrew the face plate. you will probably find: -

one of the wires has come out of the back and shorted. it will be black where it has burnt. this will be the reason the other socket is off too, it may be a spur off the socket in question or it might be a radial on a 16-20amp fuse of it's own that has also blow in the fusebox.

you will need to re-terminate the cable and maybe even have to change the socket. it's a fairly straight forward job to do.

Thankyou!
I will give that a go and see what happens.

Hi again.
We took the faceplate off and all the wires were still in place and there was nothing burnt or black looking?
Someone has suggested to me that maybe the Elements in the faceplate itself may have blown and getting a new faceplate may solve it.
Is that a possibility?
Many thanks again.

i would have said to change the face plate but if the wires are connected the only way the other socket would go off is if the main fuse has blow and it is on a radial circuit of it's own, that's why i mentioned it too.

it is possible that the socket itself has collapsed but that itself wouldn't cause the other socket to go off, you would have to take the wires out to do that.

have you actually checked the fuse?
did the socket go bang the moment you plugged into it?
was it hard to get the plug in?

if any answer is yes to the above then i would suggest the face plate has collapsed but in either case that wouldn't cause the other socket not to work unless you have blow a fuse too and havn't checked it?

Thankyou!!
I checked again and a fuse had indeed blown.
Have just got some fusewire and the problem is sorted.

Much appreciated.