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When your electrics keep tripping – what happens next?

When an electrical fault occurs within your home or property, a protective device within the fusebox or consumer unit should trip and disconnect the affected circuit. This could be an RCD, RCBO or MCB.

Whilst there are many different types of electrical faults, they can often come down to something such as a short circuit, an overload, or electrical current leaking somewhere it shouldn't. It's worthwhile attempting to reset the tripped switch once by pushing it back up, but if it repeatedly flicks down again, a professional inspection and testing of the protective devices and wiring circuit should be carried out.

This is where we come in.

After making a booking with us and the electrician has arrived, we'll ask you a few relevant questions about the tripping, any previous history and how frequently it's been happening etc. We won't just jump straight in until we have a little background to what's been happening, if any is known.

Based on thousands of call outs and years of experience, the attending electrician will systematically and methodically carry out visual inspections, along with using specialist electrical testing equipment.

They will firstly establish what type of fault we're dealing with, then systematically narrow down and locate the fault before either making it safe, repairing it or replacing the faulty component. This is all dependent on the testing results obtained, time constraints and what you, as the homeowner or business owner, would like us to do.

Some faults can be relatively straightforward to locate, whilst others can take considerably longer, particularly where a fault is intermittent or only occurs under certain conditions. We won't simply start replacing parts in the hope that it cures the problem. The testing results help determine the next step.

You'll be kept updated throughout, from the initial booking and estimated arrival time, through to what we discover and your options for rectifying things.