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I'm beginning to think that this living room is cursed! On Friday the pipe from the radiator snapped flooding almost half the room, on Saturday there was the random cable and the fuse box tripping out... today it's sparking sockets. Mind you, there were 2 days without any incidents.

Anyway, the electrician came again today to run a new socket further along the wall in the living room. He ran it from an existing socket, fitted a new face plate on the older socket, all working fine, off he goes. Not ten minutes later MrDinx touches the socket as he is moving stuff from the floor (the one that the new socket is running from) and there is a loud 'whump' noise from inside the socket and the radio goes off. The fuse box master switch has tripped, so he resets it - massive spark and crackling from the new socket. There was nothing plugged into either of the sockets. Now the only working sockets in the house are the two double plug points situated either side of the cooker. Eagerly awaiting the return of the electrician...


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I'm not sure I would wait for that electrician if he was the one that left it like that! ::b



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Hmmm, I know what you mean but better to give him the chance to fix it first I think. After the random cable thing I'm inclined to think it's more likely to be the way our house is wired and he was just unlucky I asked him to put in another socket! :lol:

I always have my BG Homecare cover to fall back on if it doesn't work out though.


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i would think the water and short are linked was the electrician aware off the leak!!

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All is well-ish! :dunno:

It's another one of those bizarre coincidences that happens regularly in our house. When MrDinx made contact with the casing (he was actually tightening the screws on it) he had managed to joggle a wire and trapped it between the metal and plastic case and that tripped the fuse box.

What the spark eventually discovered, after much faffing around, was that one of the trip switches on the main fuse boxes is faulty - it's slightly loose and slips just enough to trip the circuit without actually being in the off position) which probably caused the random tripping on Saturday too.

So, let's see what tomorrow brings... ::b


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