What could be causing the power to keep tripping?

[Homebew1]

Not moved into new home yet. Nothing has been added to the electrical load in terms of any of our faulty appliances as we have nothing there so not sure what is causing the electrics to trip (apologies if I’m using wrong words!).

I’m really worried as it could be a potential fire risk. DH doesn’t care and thinks I’m as “usual stressing for no reason”. I feel so overwhelmed with taking care of kids, focusing on moving our stuff from current temporary home to new plus working. I don’t even know where to start trying to find the problem.

DH is against me getting an electrician in as he thinks I will get ripped off. Please advise me, have you had similar problem? I don’t know where to go from here.

Turn all individual circuits off at fuse box and put them on again one at a time and see which makes it trip?

I was going to suggest a dodgy appliance or plug, but that can’t be it.

You need an electrician!

We had a room ceiling light that repeatedly tripped the switch. Couldn’t figure out why and kept changing bulbs etc. Some months later it became apparent there was a small leak from the boiler down to the electrics for that light. We couldn’t ‘see’ anything for ages until the boiler was serviced.

Ours was doing this the other day. It was an outside light that the rain had got into.

I had this once, was dodgy wiring of a plug socket. Electrician just isolated the socket, was the cheapest option (so now I have a socket that doesn't work). Cost about £80.

I had this and tracked it down to a badly fitted 2 gang light switch with a loose wire. It took me forever to figure it out, and although it was quick to fix an electrician would have been a lot quicker.

Thank you everyone.

If it’s a house you have just purchased contact your solicitor first as previous owner may be liable to check this. Clarify this before paying your own electrician but it does need looked at.

both mice and water can cause old worn wires to trip. yup i'd be getting the landlord (sounds like your renting) to sort this before the move.

Our neighbour had a brand new tumble dryer that tripped theirs, even when it wasn't switched on. Really weird but apparently it was a known fault and easily rectified with a new part in the dryer.

We had this recently. It was caused by some quite old wiring under the floor that had degraded. It took quite a lot of time and a decent electrician to find the fault, because it was not linked to a particular appliance and it was intermittent.
The electrician disconnected that section from the circuit, we didn't have to go under the floor.
Anyway, you do need to get it sorted. You can't just ignore it. Does your DH think the problem will magically go away?

Faulty light switch , very simple to fix and not expensive .

You can try and figure it out yourself by turning off every light and applicance and socket in the circuit that trips. Then turn on one by one and see when it goes. I had this - my washing machine was tripping the entire circuit because it was automatically cutting out due to a leak.

When you go to the box that houses all your trip switches aren't they labelled something like downstairs lights, downstairs sockets, oven, etc - is it one of those that is tripping? My MIL had intermittent tripping she couldn't tie to any one particular device or activity - I found a mouse inside the toaster that had shorted the live to the neutral - amazingly the toaster worked and didn't always trip - the mouse also accounted for the horrible smell - it was an old damp farmhouse conversion so strange smells were not that unusual. Could it be that the rating of the supply coming into the property is not adequate for the devices in the property? I've seen this in the case where a former milking parlour (for cows) that had previously used a 3 phase system, was converted to a single phase system - I think it was only rated at something like 9A per phase so they only had 9A coming in.