burning smell from cable or somewhere?

[jurgenjay]

Hi,

In the middle of today, we smelled something burning, the first reaction is electrical cable burned! We looked for where it smelled strongest and found it is upstairs hallway near radiator (which was not on at the time) and downstairs living room.

We called the electrician who did the electrical works for the house to come and check, he tested each socket which all worked, and all the lighting & switches were working, so it seems the sockets are fine, the lighting is ok!
He said halogen bulb could get hot and burned but my house is all LED so would not get burned.
Also, the consumer box & RCD was not tripped.

Clearly we smelled it like cable/plastic burning smell so where could it come from?
Or was that burning smell not related to electrical thing?

Thanks!

 

[littlespark]

Let us know what the new electrician finds.

Hopefully, if they’re an experienced tradesman, they can sniff out the problem fairly quickly

 

[jurgenjay]

Let us know what the new electrician finds.

Hopefully, if they’re an experienced tradesman, they can sniff out the problem fairly quickly

Thanks! Will let you guys who contributed in this thread here know later! I hope what you said is proved to be the case!
Strong burning smell does need to be traced otherwise it is a concern still.