I rent a house and have lived there for 4 years. Recently the the switch on the fuse board for the electric sockets keeps fliping. We don't have excesieve amount of electrical products plugged in. What is happening is that I cant plug in and switch many thing on at once as the switch flips turning all electricity to sockets off. For example.. I can't watch tv & put dishwasher on at same time. I can't put computer and tv on at the same time, I have a fish bubble lamp and a net light in my autiistic sons room in his sensory corner and I can't put them on if I have the tv or dishwasher on. Even putting dishwasher and washing machine on at same time flips switch some times. The only things we have switched on all the time are the fridge & freezer every thing else we switch on when we need it and switch off when not using. What could be causeing this problem. Alot of the time the problem does acure when the tv is switch on and you switch some thing else on. I did think about perhaps a fault with tv. The tv is almost new though, its a Philips hd ready lcd tv. Surely if there was a fault with tv then the electrics would blow each time tv is switched on. The only other thing I can think of is the previous tenants did drill in to a electircal cable by mistake but they said they had it fixed. If this hasn't been fixed properly then could this be causing problem. This was over 4 years ago and electrics have been working fine until a few weeks ago. I want to contact the agency I rent from to get then to send out a electrician to have a look. But want to get some advice first. As If I get them to send a electrician to have a look if it is found to be a fault of my part or with a appliance in my house I will be made to pay call out and repair charges if needed. I don't really want to have to pay out unless I have too so wanted to get some advice first.
If you need any more information to be able to help or if you want me to take a pictur of fuse box and post them Let me know.
Any advice you can give I would be very greatfull
thanks in advanced
If you need any more information to be able to help or if you want me to take a pictur of fuse box and post them Let me know.
Any advice you can give I would be very greatfull
thanks in advanced