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Recently, Ive noticed that every now and again certain lights in my house flicker. Its not a constant flicker, but a quick on then everything goes back to normal, i have notice this in several rooms in my house more notably in the kitchen when i had my main lights, extractor fan and lights, and under cabinet lights all on and one of my main four spot lights started going crazy, after turning off my extractor it stopped.

Any ideas what's causing this?

About a year ago my bathroom flooded and came through the kitchen but a sparky gave it the al clear.

Ghosts! You're haunted. Be afraid, be very afraid!

Is your house built on an ancient burial site?

or some kind of pet cemetery.

i would prefer it if this was the case, at least i'd know its not gonna cost me an arm and a leg to get fixed

If that is the case then watch helpful advert  ;)

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Ha-ha. Who ya gonna call???

On a serious note! My house does this but only when it's really bad weather. Is yours all the time and on a daily basis?

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The usual suspects

Are you there Sidney?

My bathroom light does this occasionally. Makes it fun sometimes when you're sat on the crapper and the lights start up like a 90s rave.

My downstairs toilet light does the same thing. I think it's the bulb but it's been doing it for 3 years so that possibly might not be the answer.

 Fred used to be good on domestic paranormal events....

Problem is Reg that according to reports Fred is now an angry fucker into abusing newbies.  Doubt he'd come on here and lead a ghost hunt!! :hmmm:  COYR: :pint:

Are you sure it's not just some fat fucker walking around upstairs?

My kitchen lights flicker if the kids are playing on the Wii in the room above.

Bulbs screwed in ok? Correct bulbs for lights? Rodent chewed cables?

Or are you looking at candles?

My money is on the house being haunted

Poltergoost.

are the lights flickering but nobody's home

Sounds like your poltergeist has created a dodgy connection in your extractor...  What sort of fuse board do you have?  Is it old? I ask because modern ones would trip at the slightest hint of a short (even a light bulb blowing will trip mine)

Thanks for the help (some of you) i put it down to being a bulb as it was only in the kitchen at first, so was waiting for it to go before replacing, but its started happening in other rooms, i'll probably have a spark come and check my fuse box etc just to be safe.

There can be a few underlying problems TBH it could be mains fluctations if you are close in proximity to a substation or the general age of wiring or even a variable earth on the house itself or another possibility is that there is a loose incoming power line into the junction box.

Either way you are fucked, as if you live close to a substation you will probably end up growing a spare head and dying of some horrible disease and if you have a loose incoming line into the box your house will probably catch fire and burn down.

All joking aside, I would just ring a sparky. PDQ.

This man speaketh sense, get it checked.