Power cut in our house, but not NDN's...

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Our electricity has shut off and we have turned the main switch back on, it starts up then switches back off again within about 10 seconds.

Checked with NDN and her electricity is on so it must be a problem with our house.

Any ideas about what we do?

Turn appliances off, then put the trip back on. Something is probably making the circuit breaker flip. Remember things like washing machines, kettles, dishwashers. If it stays on, turn on the appliances one by one, seeing which one it is that flips the circuit breaker. That is probably what an electrician would do to start with. (Married to one).

It is most likely a watery appliance, such as a kettle, immersion heater, dishwasher, goldfish fountain, outdoor light full of rain; or one with a heating element, such as an oven.

Unplug them all, except fixed appliances with no plug, because some switches are single pole and will not fully isolate.

Something has tripped the system, you just need to work out what it is.

Thanks for your advice

We have done that and it seems to have came back on. Had to go out so haven't turned all the sockets back on just the fridge and the boiler as they were the most important things.

Fingers crossed it's ok when we get home.

Apparently it might be a power-cut, as you and NDN may be on a different circuit. It's called something like "triple phase", because there are three different circuits. Approx 1/3 of houses in your street would be affected.

Thanks Lammily but I phoned the electricity power cut number for our area and they have said that there isn't a fault and that its our house.

"we have turned the main switch back on, it starts up then switches back off again within about 10 seconds"

this indicates it is the installation not the supply.

We get this whenever it rains heavily, and we traced it to our outdoor socket. If anything is plugged in the circuit breaker trips and won't switch back on. Unplug whatever is plugged in, and we are OK again.

I think you should have the leak mended.

We had this recently - turned everything off and then switched them on again one by one. It was an electric radiator that had suddenly decided to throw in the towel and was tripping the whole house.