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I've been hearing odd bangs from the communal hallway in the last week or so, and I had put it down to kids fucking about with the letterbox or something.
However, today I woke up to no power, all fuses blown and water pissing down the wall (over the fuse board) from the shower of the flat upstairs.
Contractors called. Leak fixed, everything dried off and fuses replaced. Email from freeholders telling me everything is fixed.
So I go home and flip the switch back on, cue enormous bang, a shower of sparks and a hallway full of smoke.
It's been shorting out inside the fuse box for at least a week, hence the banging noises, but worryingly its taken this long to actually blow a fuse, and after the big bang and the sparks the fuses are all intact.