Caution
Repeated RCD tripping needs investigation. Learn what to record safely, what an electrician checks and how to agree a fault finding visit.
Your RCD trips during the night, and you wake up to find the power off.
High risk
Your electrics trip whenever it rains, suggesting water is getting into your electrical installation.
A circuit breaker in your consumer unit keeps tripping, cutting power to part of your home.
A trip switch in your consumer unit will not stay in the on position no matter what you try.
A fuse that keeps blowing is doing its job: something is drawing too much current or has a fault. If it is the fuse in a plug, try the correct rated fuse and then suspect the appliance. If it is the fuse box, replace it once only; if it blows again, stop and call an electrician.
Your consumer unit trips even when no appliances are plugged in, pointing to a fault in the fixed wiring.
A trip switch in your consumer unit goes off at random times with no obvious pattern.
A specific MCB (Miniature Circuit Breaker) in your consumer unit keeps tripping off.
An RCBO in your consumer unit keeps tripping, cutting power to a single circuit.
Your electrics trip the moment you plug in a specific appliance or device.
The circuit supplying power upstairs keeps tripping, leaving the upstairs without electricity.
The circuit supplying power downstairs keeps tripping, leaving the ground floor without electricity.
Your lighting circuit keeps tripping, plunging rooms into darkness.
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