Fuse Constantly Tripping

[Beth Langstreth]

Please help!

A fuse keeps tripping over and over again. I have 100% narrowed it down to being on the "kitchen sockets" circuit and definitely not to do with overloading or any particular appliance being used.

Believe me, I have unplugged everything in the entire house and it still goes, had one thing plugged in at a time and it still goes, etc. It is not down to one particular socket or thing that's plugged in.

It started randomly in the middle of the night, we discovered it when we woke up. We have not done anything differently recently, nothing new plugged in, no new screws or nails put in walls.

What else could it be please and is it something I can fix myself / if not, will it be a quick/cheap job for an electrician to figure out and complete. I've already wasted £140 today on an electrician who did absolutely nothing.

 

[telectrix]

Previous house had intermittent fault - drove us mad... tripped usually early hours... turned out the dishwasher leak 2 months earlier had finally seeped through tiles and screed enough to get moisture inside a hidden junction box laid in the insulation below the gf slab. The condensation level increasing during the night was just enough. It looked like the builder had smacked through the ring main conduit and cable, bodged a repair and concreted it in! Having traced the dodgy leg we bypassed it and only found the “repair” nice and moist months later when we took part of the slab out for an extension!

don't you just love bodge-it the builder. too tight arsed to pay a spark to fix it right.

 

[Pete999]

don't you just love bodge-it the builder. too tight arsed to pay a spark to fix it right.

Don't have a kin clue do they?

 

[Megawatt]

I’d be embarrassed to charge if I couldn’t find it!

If I couldn’t fix it I wouldn’t charge for it