Home electrical advice req please.
Briefly I have a double wall socket under the kitchen unit which supplies both the washer and the dryer. Last week one of the sockets just stopped working for no apparent reason. I started to use a extension lead plugged into the usable socket so we could use both the washer and dryer at the same time. Today the other socket stopped working but I did notice that the plug at the end of the extension lead was extremely hot and so was the wall plug socket. I failed to notice wether the first socket that stopped working was hot or not at the time it packed up working.
The wall socket was fitted over 10 years ago and we have had no problems up until now, so I’m a bit perplexed as to why it should suddenly fail.
Any advice would be appreciate.
Briefly I have a double wall socket under the kitchen unit which supplies both the washer and the dryer. Last week one of the sockets just stopped working for no apparent reason. I started to use a extension lead plugged into the usable socket so we could use both the washer and dryer at the same time. Today the other socket stopped working but I did notice that the plug at the end of the extension lead was extremely hot and so was the wall plug socket. I failed to notice wether the first socket that stopped working was hot or not at the time it packed up working.
The wall socket was fitted over 10 years ago and we have had no problems up until now, so I’m a bit perplexed as to why it should suddenly fail.
Any advice would be appreciate.