electrics help!

stevemcol

I think Wayne has it on the head, it's the most likely cause.

With respect to some of the other posters, even the knowledgable ones, I just don't think they are reading all your posts properly before replying.
From where you're at, it sounds like unless you're confident to start taking faceplates off to investigate further, you'll need a spark.

macman

The OP may well need a sparky, but it should be perfectly possible for them to first identify and isolate the circuit that is causing the issue, in line with the advice already given. Nothing unsafe about that procedure at all.

waynehayes

macman wrote: »

The OP may well need a sparky, but it should be perfectly possible for them to first identify and isolate the circuit that is causing the issue, in line with the advice already given. Nothing unsafe about that procedure at all.

I think the problem for the OP (if I'm reading the OP correctly) is that the fault is not operating the circuit breaker, and if the circuit supplies up and downstairs sockets it makes it a little trickier to identify and isolate. Having said that there are only 4 circuits which should narrow things down considerably.
From the OPs second picture, it appears there are 4 circuits:

40A - Probably a shower/cooker.
30A - Ring final
6A - Lighting
16A - Immersion heater.

To the OP: if the 30A breaker is switched off, are all of the downstairs sockets switched off too?

rosiesposies

Its worked!!! thanks for all your help! Now onto the boiler that has just died!

macman

Well that's good, but how about telling us what worked, so others can benefit from the experience?

Ben84

waynehayes wrote: »

It could be that the whole of the upstairs is a radial, spurred from the downstairs ring and that there is a break somewhere.

Was that ever officially allowed? :eek:

DevCoder

Ben84 wrote: »

Was that ever officially allowed? :eek:

Spurs of spurs? No.

Seen "Lollipop" radials though.