I've spilled water on a socket and tripped all the sockets in the house!

[SpinySue]

I've removed the plugs that were in the socket but heard a little fizzle and everything went off. I've dried around the socket where I can access.

Is it safe to turn everything back on at the fuse box? If it is still wet will they just trip again or could I cause some sort of fire or explosion...

This was my very last act as I climbed into bed, punched a glass off my bedside table in the dark. Arghhh

I've just left it to dry and had it all be okay. I suspect the party line is get an electrician to check....

Dammit! My dad is an electrician but he's no use to me until the morning, ha! I'll leave it overnight then and hope no one wakes and realises that the night light is off... thanks

Errr I've done this several times. Unplugged and turned everything off at the offending socket and flipped the fuse and it was fine. Not sure if it's best practice!

I now only have water in a sports bottle next to my bed!

I hope it hasn't tripped the ring that powers your fridge/ freezer although as long as you don't open the doors every 5 mins you should be fine for 24 hrs or so

You should leave it overnight to dry but I don't think there's any harm in trying to flip the breaker. It will just flick itself back off again if there's still a short

I thought as long as you’re RCD protected then the risk of electrical fires were reduced enormously. Are you RCD protected? As a side note, I know nothing about electrics and lucky you having your dad. I’ve cunningly just sent my 16 year old off to
College to train as an electrician, should be great in the future!

I've done this before, exact same scenario! Left all day to dry then everything worked as usual

Your electrics will be fine once the socket has dried out. If you can, play a hairdryer into the back of it. You can reset rcds (likely what's tripped, does it have a test button on it?) if the fault is still there it'll trip internally, you can hold it in the on position if there's a fault but internally it'll actually be off.

If the fault has tripped multiple circuits it'll be an rcd. If it's tripped the whole house consider upgrading your electrics as you shouldn't have a single point of failure.

My sink leaked into a socket and tripped everything. I turned the socket in question off and unplugged the appliance until morning and turned everything else back on, all was well.

I woke up at at 5am suddenly remembering that my fridge and freezer must be off too so went down then to the fusebox and flipped the switch back on and it all stayed on!

My wee dad came up this morning and checked it out to be safe but had said that as it hadn't tripped again it was almost certainly dried out and able to use. Water bottles only from now on, and thanks for the advice 😀