EF: Advice on Burnt out wall socket

[Alex Woodall]

Advice on Burnt out wall socket

Hi All

Wonder if someone can give me a little advice on a burnt out socket I’ve found today:

Socket has now been isolated at the fuse board and is on a small ring with only 2 other sockets and a 30amp rcd.

Items plugged into the socket were a tp-link smart plug, with a lamp connected to it, and a 4 way extension lead with an Amazon firestick and a wireless router bridge connected. So nothing pulling significant loads.

Socket was installed about 10 years ago and there haven’t been any issues, that I know about, since then. We’ve recently had an extension built which involved replacement the fuse board (new FuseBox model).

Whilst I suspect it most likely that the issue was the live connection in the outlet, which is what has burnt, it feels like potentially too much of a co-incidence that this has happened just a few weeks after the fuse board was changed having been fine for 10 years.

Could the new fuse board have caused something to change here which has resulted in the socket burning out?

Thanks in advance for any assistance

Alex

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