I should add, this is a 5-bed house share across three floors with one room currently empty.

at a guess, the boiler will be tripping the earth leakage detection, not the taking-too-much-current detection. Is it moist if you have a look? (note that safety is a thing, around wet electrical stuff. If you're not comfortable, pass the buck)
This is landlord calling electrician stuff, to be honest. I'd have a look at my own, but not touch someone else's.

>>3208
We're having some, er, difficulties, getting the letting agency's attention on things right now. (Not that I was intending on actually fixing it myself, obviously.) I let them know earlier today to take a look at it, pointing out that it leaves us unable to get reliable hot water, and have heard precisely nothing back. So par for the course for shitty letting agents.

Rather annoying because I've just got a load of crockery out of storage and it needs a proper wash before I'm prepared to use it, but at this rate I am not getting enough hot water to do that also it's taking out my ability to shitpost on the internet.

>>3208
thinking about it, if it's only tripping that ring and not the whole house, it's less likely to be earth leakage, unless your fusebox is unusually plush, normally you just have one shared RCD for everything. If so, your boiler is taking enough current to trip a ring main breaker. That ain't right, and lets you tell the letting weasels that there's a faulty gas boiler, which might concentrate their minds a little.
Doesn't help, sorry, just wanted to modify my earlier guess.

Someone turned up, I went through all the things that had caused it to trip, and couldn't get it to happen no matter what I tried. Then we get a message in the group chat from the agent saying "It's all working, why did you tell me you had no hot water?" Because we had no hot water, you fucking imbecile.

And of course now this morning someone has got up to take a shower and it's tripped at the first time of not asking.

It's still pulling it's shenanigans. Someone took a shower and it went again. Having looked more closely, the whole house isn't on one ring, it's the RCD protecting the three rings for the outlets that's going.

Are we back to possible earth leakage?

>>3212
For context, here's the consumer unit in normal operation, complete with what I hope is just someone not labelling it when they inspect it and not uninspected for 12 years.

>>3213
... and here's a Dutch angle showing it with the RCD tripped.

>>3213

Yep, if the RCD is tripping then there has to be some current leakage going on. RCDs are by necessity very sensitive, which makes them quite prone to nuisance tripping. It's possible that the RCD is faulty, but these kind of problems can be notoriously difficult to troubleshoot.

Similar to OP the circuit for all my upstairs lights goes after anything between immediately and two hours after being turned on, regardless of which lights are on. It's really fucking annoying and I have no clue what to do about it.

Back with na update.

Bought a UPS so that my electronics don't get wiped out when someone takes a shower, and now it hasn't happened since. Which suggests it might have had something to do with my kit. Which doesn't seem right, because it was happening when people were drawing hot water, and was also happening when I left it all unplugged for a couple of days while I moved everything around.

>>3219

Invoice it to you landlord.

>>3220
I'm pretty much at the point of doing that. I'll need to check that there has been enough time, enough requests, and enough refusals to pass the threshold for that. It turns out there's a list of a dozen things that environmental health have demanded, and one of the housemates wants to withhold rent until they're done, and I'm reasonably sure that we can't do that, but only make deductions if it incurs us actual costs.