New Electrics & blown light bulb

Beebo

Hi there,

I recently had my electrics upgraded by a '16th edition' approved electrician however some of the bulbs have gone in my lights. This morning at 0300 i krept downstairs to get a glass of water switched the dining room light on and it smashed scattering accross the floor and has tripped the circuit.

I will obviously call my electrician, but if this sounds really dodgy I'd rather get in someone else to make better rather than risk dodgy electrical work.

The light switch that I switched on in the dining room hadn't yet been fixed to the wall as I'm still in the process of painting, there doesn;t seem to be a loose connection or anything.

Advice appreciated.

ic

How old is the bulb, could be coincidence that its time was up. Was the room cold (and therefore the bulb) at the time?

KT1985

It happens.

Admittedly, in our house it has only really happened the time I got plaster inside the socket, but nearly all of our halogens have blown of their own accord since Christmas.

tuggy12

Beebo wrote: »

This morning at 0300 i krept downstairs

Lol, reminds me of that little ditty:

The cat crept into the crypt, crapped and crept out again.

I'm sure the lightbulb failure will be a coincidence. I find an increase in the number of bulbs failing when the weather gets colder. I once had a 40w candle bulb blow on switching on and it tripped out the downstairs lighting circuit.

27col

I spent years around electrical equipment and it was amazing how often these coincidences occurred. People used to come to the workshop and say " When I did so and so this happened. "It was surprising how often the fault that they reported had absolutely nothing to do with whatever they had touched, and turned out to be pure coincidence that the two things had apparently happened at the same time.
As to the business of light bulbs exploding, well I never came across it ever, in 40 years, except once when a bulb was exposed to a drop of cold water hitting it.