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an update: we've got pretty much used to lamps/torchlight over the last fortnight due to a host of other problems taking priority, and while there were bigger problems around, all the best-laid plans described above have gone out of the window and none of us have sought to get anything sorted...

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thanks. i think that's what we might try, as there aren't going to be people around to receive an electrician during working hours for a few days. as mentioned before, it will take a while to get to the boards so we're going to clear and check a few obvious points under the boards first of...

i'm not even going to pretend to understand all that but it sounds like you did a very thorough job!

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thanks for the response, please find my answers to your questions above. i'm a little concerned about the intermittent issue. i don't want to be spending hundreds of pounds calling electricians out only to be told there isn't a problem every time. if there is a problem with the wiring is...

unfortunately the possible rodent activity is in the downstairs ceiling/upstairs floor cavity, so it's not so easy to check. thanks for the link, it's returned a long list that i can look through in the morning! are the accreditations actually worth anything? i remember reading about how...

thanks for the reply. when i said 'isolate' i meant pretty much the same thing as 'locate' i.e. would it be possible to locate the rough area where the fault is so that only a minimal number of floorboards need to be removed and only that section of wiring replaced? i will have to make a call...

hmmm... there is a possibility of rodent damage as there have been some scrabblings in the cavity. if there was some damaged wiring somewhere, would it be possible to isolate and locate the fault without taking floorboards up, or would all the wiring have to be visually inspected to locate it...

thanks for the replies. no lights outside, all that's on the circuit is 6 light fittings and an extractor fan (downstairs bathroom) that hasn't worked for years. i had a suspicion last night that as it was a wet and very windy night maybe some moisture might have got in through the extractor...

hello, i'm not an electrician but hoping for some advice from one (or several)... at 3am this morning the circuit breaker for the downstairs lighting in my house tripped. i reset it, and it tripped again 15 minutes later. i changed the only bulb that was on thinking that might be the problem...