rcd

Morning all, the house we bought has an electric towel radiator in the bathroom - it's fairly small, and won't accommodate the three towels we use regularly as a household. The current element is 300w, and rather than being wired into it's own dedicated sosket, a hole has been drilled through...

Hi, Our washing machine (Indesit PWDE 8148) didn’t take too kindly to the power cuts from yesterday’s storm, and now repeatedly trips the RCD in the fuze box. Just plugging it in is enough to make it happen. So now it has wet laundry inside and the door is locked, with no way to apply power for...

Hi, my RCD keeps tripping overnight and I'm looking for ideas on what could be causing it. We bought our house in September and all was fine for the first two months. In mid-November the RCD tripped while we were away for a weekend. We reset it, but it tripped again about a week later, then...

Hi! I have a plug socket on a circuit on the RCD side of my CU... From there a plug with L and N runs to a contactor... BG type A..... The contactor switches on a circuit on the non RCD side of my CU... It doesn't matter what the load is..... Immersion or just a light bulb fitting.... The RCD...

I have just installed two dedicated 2.5mm wires to 2 new ovens. Both ovens on a switched spur and separate from each other. When I try and run the oven having turned the switched spur on it starts to heat up but at a random point the RCD switches off but not the breaker for the oven. The wiring...

The RCD keeps tripping. Its got to do with the kitchen sockets labelled here. If I push that back up then the RCD trips. NOTHING is plugged into the kitchen extension sockets I double checked. It was very random last night and no one was in the kitchen. What could be the cause?

Hoping I can get some advice from the screwfix gurus on a problem that I'm lost on. (im an accountant by trade so sorry if what im saying doesnt make sense) I currently have my hob and kitchen ring main on separate MCB's which feed into the same RCD. A couple of months ago my RCD tripped and...

After a long process of elimination I have found out the RCD was tripping whenever the hot water was being used and the boiler started working. Time to time this doesn't happen but 9 out of 10 times using hot water it does. I have no idea what to do about this, if anyone has any advice on what...

Hi all you clever folk, I am currently trying to find what device(s) are causing my RCCB(s) to trip: I have a split consumer unit with 2x RCCBs each protecting 5x MCBs. I have just purchased an earth leakage meter to see if I can trace the fault but in the meantime can anybody let me know why...

We are having building work done to our house and having bathrooms redone at the same fine by a different company. We have just come back from a week away to our utility room having no power. The RCD hasn’t tripped for the sockets but the lights were tripped when we came in. There has been a...

Hello, I had an EICR test come back as unsatisfactory with a C2 fail for "RCD Rating Not Adaquate" noted in the observations. The report listed the Cooker, Kitchen and Ring circuits each with 30A / 30ma RCD, then a water heater circuit with a 20A /30ma RCD and the lighting circuit with a 10A /...

Whilst reading up on how to install an outside socket, I came across a comment recommending that the rcd on the CU is tested quarterly by the homeowner. I decided to see if my CU has one and there it was. Despite pressing the test button, the power did not switch off and I'm now worried. I dont...

Hi, I am very much inexperienced with electrics so don't worry I will not be completing this job myself - I am just looking for some information while planning a project. Layman's terms where you can please. I am planning on knocking down and rebuilding my garage. There is currently power...

Hi, I want to add power to my shed. Shed is 9m away from the socket in the house. (1) If I run 2.5mm armoured cable from an existing double socket in the house to an RCD double socket in the shed, can I then run cables from the shed double socket to a light switch for a 4ft LED strip light...

Good evening all, I'm pricing up some charges for a new kitchen. We currently have a gas oven. The plan is to remove and replace with an electric oven and an electric hob. I know this needs to be done by a qualified sparky, I'm just looking for a steer... Attached is a photo of my consumer...

Hi All, We just moved into a new house, after spending so much time shifting boxes was looking forward to a nice shower.... tested it briefly and it worked... and got warm etc... came back later - and nope, nothing. The RCD switch had gone to OFF. It wouldn’t reset just flip back off...

Hi I’ve recently moved a steel portacabin from one part of a site to another. The electricity supply was via armoured cable above ground from a builders temp supply and consumer box to a rc pro socket on the container. The container came supplied with its own internal consumer board. To power...

Hi everyone, I'd just like you to check my thinking is correct with regards to breaker sizes on a new consumer unit. Just FYI, I am getting a sparky to fit it. He works offshore and isn't easy to get hold of with questions. He basically said 'order a new unit and I'll fit it when I'm home'. So...

Hi all, The rcd in my single rcd consumer unit keeps on tripping. It first happened when I turned the kettle on. It then happened when I turned my shower on. Both of these times my portable radiator has been on. I have tried the kettle and shower both at the same time and individually when the...

Im currently having an issue where as soon as I turn more than 1 light on upstairs in my house the rcd will immediately trip and I'm hoping someone can help me figure out some possible causes. There's 5 lights on the circuit and they all seem to work fine on there own but turning on any 2 causes...