electrics fusing any ideas?

cheepskate_2

Hi All

I am wondering before i call in the electrics guy if anyone has some ideas, maybe save me calling him out as i can least afford it at the moment.
Just xmas eve our boiler stopped working, we were lucky and got the guy to come out . He eventually identified it was a fuse box in the boiler cupboard that had fused(had a power cut the night before couldnt figure out why everything had went off as all seemed working when we checked everything out) .

Anyway, he found this confusing as he said if it was fusing it should blow at the little switch thing that turns on /off and sets the timer etc downstairs, which still has power to it .

Also in this cupboard is the wired carbon detector which also had also lost its power to it.

He fixed the fuse and everything went back to normal, including the carbon detector.

Today it has just fused again, same fuse.

heating goes off and so does the carbon detector.

Now im assuming it is the detector that is causing the problem rather than my boiler, any ideas where i start to see if it is this and do they only have a limited lifespan, it must be about 7-10 years old now

Any help appriciated

thanks

GreenSheep

why do you assume the carbon detector?
can't you disconnect the detector and buy a battery powered one to go in there and see if that sorts it?
I would prefer a battery powered one if it fails when the boiler supply does - doesn't seem very safe like that to me.