Washing machine tripping fuse

movilogo

Moved house with my own washing machine which ran fine for years.

The movers connected the machine before they left. 2 days later when I tried to run it, initially it refused to spin. I read the manual and cleared the water from drain pipe. Then turned on cold water supply. It then started spinning fine. After 5 minutes, it tripped the fuse!

I reset the fuse and tried running it again but every time I do that I hear a click sound as soon washing machine kicks in and trips the fuse.

Before I call an electrician, is there anything easy I can DIY? 

I am not looking to de-assemble the internals of washing machine. 

FFHillbilly

can you please clarify exactly what is tripping? MCB's or RCD's trip and can be reset, fuses blow and need to be replaced, so your correct terminology will help.
the fault could well be within the house you have just moved to. if your consumer unit has at least 2 RCD's and both have socket circuits on them you could try running an extension to the other RCD fed socket circuit and running the washing machine, if it still trips the other RCD then it would indicate the W/M is faulty

movilogo

Don't know what that means. I see that a fuse in main fuse box down position after it trips and I just put it back to up position.

It is an old house, some sockets seems older than me. 1960s house with original electricals mostly, don't know if that helps. 

grumbler

movilogo said:

Don't know what that means. I see that a fuse in main fuse box down position after it trips and I just put it back to up position.

Post a photo of the consumer unit.

TadleyBaggie

Those are not fuses, when a fuse wire blows it has to be physically replaced. So you have a breaker that is tripping, there are two sorts:

 - overcurrent (MCB)
 - leak from live/neutral to earth (RCD)

What does the trip have printed on it?

movilogo

The one circled red is tripping. 

macman

Is it hard wired, or plugged in? If plugged in, the first thing to do is plug something else into the same socket, that draws a fairly high wattage, maybe a vacuum cleaner, and see if it still trips. If it does, then it's the circuit or socket, not the w/m.
Were the transit bolts fitted for the move and then properly removed on installing? If not, the drum may be damaged.

movilogo

It is plugged in.

I have no idea if transit bolts were fitted. The movers guys took it out from my old house and re-fitted in new house. 

victor2

It could be the washing machine has been faulty for a long time, but the old house didn't have breakers with such levels of protection, therefore never detected the fault.

movilogo

The fuse box I posted, is it MCB or RCD? Sorry if that sounds silly as I have not heard these terms before. Is MCB or RCD is type of fault or property of a fusebox?

grumbler

I've never seen this sort of breakers, but they look like some pre-historic RCBOs. If so, they react on both overloading and leaking to earth. However, if the fuse in the WM plug remains intact, then, most likely, it's a leak or, less likely, a faulty breaker.

Until some electrician identifies them, you can try using an extension lead to connect your WM to a socket belonging to another ring main and check if it trips another breaker.