Lights off but fuse hasn't been tripped

eth0_

This morning all the lights in the upstairs of my house just went out.
I checked the fuseboard and nothing has tripped.

I noticed 5 mins later that a light sort of sparked on for a second (because i'd not turned the switch on the wall to off).

Is this dangerous? It seems very dodgy that nothing tripped! The rest of the house is ok.

Mr. Presentable

Lights usually have a connection looping from one to the next. If that goes down, they all go down. I'd strongly recommend getting an electrician in.

philcsl

Not to freak you out or anything but its possible that a mouse or rat has bitten through the wire in the loop in the attic. All upstairs lights would be on one circut, it would usually trip on the switchboard when there is a power surge but not always.

It would be safest to trip the swith for that circut on the switchboard yourself until you have it checked out by a Spark!

eth0_

Yeah we had an electrician over yesterday, he says there's a break somewhere, probably caused by mice. He's coming back on Monday with a colleague to help him find the break. He did say to be prepared that another circuit might be attacked by the possible mice :-(

I've not heard or seen any sign of mice, though!