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Old 01-01-2017, 12:52
Maxatoria
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Daft question but you aint put up any decorations etc with proper nails/screws etc and perhaps clipped a cable?

The problem is that you have to chase the cable run from start to finish and check each parts ok and its a very time consuming job having to shift all your stuff so he can pull up a few floorboards and then put it back and then to the next section etc.
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Old 01-01-2017, 13:14
njp
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Well he wasnt cheap and spent the whole afternoon trying to fix it. He checked all the wall sockets and said none of them were causing the issue. He said my flat is run on two electric circuits and one of those circuits is now broken which is why half the plugs in the flat dont work now and need to find the fault in it but the fault must be in a cable under a carpet or in the loft though and he left.

I dont know why the other circuit that does still work cuts off randomly, even when nothing is getting plugged in or turned on? which when it does its cuts off ALL the electrics ie the boiler, all remaining sockets etc. I then have to flip the switch back up again. Problem is if I am out and it does this then my fridge freezer goes off. Also it does this at night and when it does it sets off the smoke alarms as smoke alarms reset and causes other electrics to beep in the flat. Not much fun at 4am! last night it was 4am the other night 2am.

I noticed that the switch that was flipped this time was only one switch not two, wonder if that has any indication of anything? It was the switch to the right that has the arrow was the only one switched off, the switch which has the button above it. Heres the pic again.

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You seem to have multiple issues. That breaker will trip if there is too much earth leakage, and it protects a number of circuits.

Your permanently broken circuit is also rather odd, because one of the characteristics of a ring main (some would say "flaw") is that it will continue to work even with a single break in the cabling. So that suggests two faults (though one may have been pre-existing), or that the entire string of sockets are spurred, which also seems wrong. I'm surprised your electrician didn't (apparently) make any progress at all, because there are some fairly obvious tests he could have done.

My assumption would be that the broken circuit is causing the earth leakage that trips the rccb. Is the mcb for the broken circuit still on? Switching it off would reduce (but not necessarily eliminate) the risk of the other circuits dropping out as a result of the fault.
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