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.

 

[littlespark]

Intermittent fault, could be water as suggested, or rodents??

With the rcd off, does the kitchen breaker feel soft to turn on, more so than the others?

This doesn’t find any underlying problems that caused the trip in the first place, but it does make the mcb trip more frequent.

 

[static zap]

Night time ,
(what was weather like that night ?-something that wakes light sleepers like me)
Condensation ,wind blown rain
, rodents love the night when they cannot hear anyone moving about !
.... Do get testing done if rodent signs ! ...
(that time of year-- Attic - attack)

 

[Deleted member 9648]

Pointless guessing.

 

[Rpa07]

I say get the same bloke back to earn his money, if it’s problematic now he should, with the aid of a tester (if he has one) find the source of the fault.

 

[Jjc]

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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.

Never heard of a tripping fuse.

 

[Pete999]

N

Never heard of a tripping fuse.

Beth is probably a non electrical person, and to Her an MCB is a fuse a mistake many a home owner makes in their descriptions of all things within a CU.

 

[Pete999]

Most of the time it's the RCD, sometimes it's the specific kitchen sockets fuse. When I leave that fuse off the RCD does not trip.

I've uploaded a pic of the unit with RCD and fuse pointed out.

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I haven't read the entire thread, so what size in Amps is the "Fuse no 6" the fuse that is tripping, something like 6A; 16A; 20A; 32A, etc maybe helpful to know what we are dealing with.

 

[Pete999]

How did you come by this "Electrician" word of mouth or something like "trust a trader" or "my builder" type organisation?

 

[John Arnold]

£140 sounds like an emergency callout agency style, you agree the charges before they send someone out, ripoff. Many found on the internet, try a recommendation from people you know.

 

[Tim Court]

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!

 

[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