Kitchen power went off

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Immortall69

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So, when we came back from the supermarket, lo and behold the kitchen is in a blackout. Everything works fine elsewhere in the flat, apart from this.

Weirdly enough the fuse box has all the switches in the ON position. Have flipped some of those on/off including the main one, but the kitchen still stays off.

Note that in the fuse box, not a single switch has anything even remotely related to anything in the kitchen. Am I missing something? Please help.
 
There could be a FCU somewhere in the flat that supply's the kitchen a picture of the consumer unit would help also is the consumer unit a twin rcd because has one on these tripped and there could be a second consumer unit in the kitchen somewhere..
 
Hiya, thanks for replying. Yes, it seems that there are 2 RCD switches in there as per the picture. Looked far and wide for another fuse/unit/thingy, but I couldn't find anything else.
 

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i bet your immersion don't work and the smoke detector is off too!
 
Immortall69 said:
Okay, will turn the left RCD on, haven't touched it yet as it seemed out of my safety area :D

@candoabitofmoststuff I have turned that off and then on but there wasn't any difference in the result.
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With that RCD off MCB's 14, 15, 16 and 17 should all be without power, so the immersion heater, kitchen lights and smoke detector should all be off and not working.
 
Immortall69 said:
So, when we came back from the supermarket, lo and behold the kitchen is in a blackout. Everything works fine elsewhere in the flat, apart from this.

Weirdly enough the fuse box has all the switches in the ON position. Have flipped some of those on/off including the main one, but the kitchen still stays off.

Note that in the fuse box, not a single switch has anything even remotely related to anything in the kitchen. Am I missing something? Please help.
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If the rcd trips again take all the circuit breakers down and then push up rcd the left hand end switch the one with the button on then put up your circuit breakers up on at a time if it trips then that is the problem cicuit ,leave down and put all other breakers up ,it may be o/k then it may be an intermitant fault, try that if you are still having issues often best to do this way as if circuits are o/k it may be the surge in a small fault current in the circuits all be applied to the rcd at one time
 
Alan sherriff said:
If the rcd trips again take all the circuit breakers down and then push up rcd the left hand end switch the one with the button on then put up your circuit breakers up on at a time if it trips then that is the problem cicuit ,leave down and put all other breakers up ,it may be o/k then it may be an intermitant fault, try that if you are still having issues often best to do this way as if circuits are o/k it may be the surge in a small fault current in the circuits all be applied to the rcd at one time
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As above, but also the RCD might still trip with all the circuit breakers in the off (down) position as the fault might be on the neutral and your circuit breaker only switches the live.
If this happens then also switch off the double pole switch at the immersion heater.
Still trips then check for outdoor lights with water damage.
Much after that you will need a sparky or the knowledge on how to use and have access to test equipment.
A lot of times but not always it is equipment that involves water that cause an RCD to trip.
For example immersion heaters, washing machines, kettles, and damaged outside lights.
 
Woah, did switch that RCD to ON and everything lighted up! There was a funky sound though, like a short screeching noise.

I'm just so glad we've got power in the kitchen, think I'll get a pint or two in your honour, good and helpful gentlemen!

Thank you so much for this!
 
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