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Apache - took it out, gave it a shake and blew away some dust. Worked fine after putting it back in. Evans elec - only been in property 4 weeks. No building work done myself, doesn't look like there had been anything done recently either. Whole unit was pretty tight and secure. Bit of a mystery...

Dust in the RCD!! Possibly affected the breaker or something. That was it. Is dust a common nuisance in the world of electricity and power?

Thanks guys. I'll get my elec man out to have a look, and hopefully get this sorted! It would appear to be the socket RCD, as the lighting RCD is working just fine.

I'm in the North-West. Been in my property for one month now, and this is the first problem I have encountered. Was unable to even turn the power back on last night (the crackling from the socket RCD worried me, so i left it alone). I plan to give it a try again later when I arrive home, but...

My consumer unit suddenly started tripping last night. Happened about 8 or 9 times over the space of about four hours, but was fixed each time (until the last). RCD for the sockets kept switching off. Even after I'd unplugged everything but my PC - it still continued to trip. When I attempted...