No lights Working

Danger_Mouse

Hi,

We have no lights working in the house but electricity is still on as there is power to plug sockets.

Checked the fuse box and no switches off so not sure what the issue is, anyone have an idea?

Cheers

Heedtheadvice

So, some circuits (ring main) working lighting circuits not.

Firstly can you clarify if you have a modern 'fuse box' -with a main switch and several smaller switches ...or an older box with probably just one main switch and several fuses (plug in one's or even older wired fuses)?

You say switches are all right so maybe presume the former? If so (all switches are on) then it points towards a fault in the lighting circuit. Could be something as simple as a loose connection on the supply side to the lighting circuits or a damaged cable. You probably ought to call a electrician for that.

If one of the older style boxes you can switch everything off at the main switch and then check the fuses.

Come back with further info?
Edit: Assumption that this has just happened and you had lighting 'yesterday' and not something simple as all bulbs duff! Unlikely but you might check if there is another switch feeding the lighting.....

quidsinquentin

Heedtheadvice wrote: »

So, some circuits (ring main) working lighting circuits not.

Firstly can you clarify if you have a modern 'fuse box' -with a main switch and several smaller switches ...or an older box with probably just one main switch and several fuses (plug in one's or even older wired fuses)?

You say switches are all right so maybe presume the former? If so (all switches are on) then it points towards a fault in the lighting circuit. Could be something as simple as a loose connection on the supply side to the lighting circuits or a damaged cable. You probably ought to call a electrician for that.

If one of the older style boxes you can switch everything off at the main switch and then check the fuses.

Come back with further info?
Edit: Assumption that this has just happened and you had lighting 'yesterday' and not something simple as all bulbs duff! Unlikely but you might check if there is another switch feeding the lighting.....

I called an electrician out recently because a light wasn't working - apparently.

I changed the bulb in it three times just to be sure, and sure enough none of the three worked.

Had I tried a fourth bulb, it would have worked. Turns out the three brand new bulbs I tried were all faulty.

The electrician thought I was nuts when he popped a bulb of his own in and it worked.

macman

Do you have just one lighting circuit? If not, then the odds of more than one failing simultaneously are very remote.

Danger_Mouse

Heedtheadvice wrote: »

So, some circuits (ring main) working lighting circuits not.

Firstly can you clarify if you have a modern 'fuse box' -with a main switch and several smaller switches ...or an older box with probably just one main switch and several fuses (plug in one's or even older wired fuses)?

You say switches are all right so maybe presume the former? If so (all switches are on) then it points towards a fault in the lighting circuit. Could be something as simple as a loose connection on the supply side to the lighting circuits or a damaged cable. You probably ought to call a electrician for that.

If one of the older style boxes you can switch everything off at the main switch and then check the fuses.

Come back with further info?
Edit: Assumption that this has just happened and you had lighting 'yesterday' and not something simple as all bulbs duff! Unlikely but you might check if there is another switch feeding the lighting.....

Hi, its a modern box with a main switch and several smaller switches

Had a guy in fitting flooring in the day and he said lights were fine so seems to have happened in the evening (I am not actually living at the house yet)

firefox1956

A guy fitting flooring then no lights............
Too much of a coincidence there for me.

Heedtheadvice

Flooring, sawing, nailing, hammering, screwing?
Couldn't possibly be the cause !:rotfl:

Grenage

The flooring guy has almost certainly gone through a cable with a nail or saw.

macman

Tell us where he was working and which circuit has failed. If it's a modern house, there will probably be a lighting circuit for upstairs light and downstairs. If a flat, maybe just one.
My theory is that he was laying flooring upstairs and has gone a cable there-which would be the circuit supplying downstairs. So upstairs should still work-if it's on a separate circuit.
You need to look at the CU and give us some proper info-the circuits should be labelled.

jamesperrett

It might be worth checking that the switches in the fuse box are really on. I've known some that appear to be on when they're actually off. However, I'd check for nails/screws through wires first.

Le_Kirk

jamesperrett wrote: »

However, I'd check for nails/screws through wires first.

But, I would make sure the breakers are off before I started touching any nails or screws that might be through a cable. Otherwise you will know when you've found it as your eyes will light up!!