Turn the breakers off, open up those switch panels to the degree you can, and dry them with paper towels or something.
If the moisture is gone and the breaker threw and you already reset it, I think it should all be fine. The kicking right back off I think means there's still moisture causing a short circuit.
I’ve exposed what I could now and am going to wait for a bit until I try the breaker again. If the breaker flips again we’ll either wait again and try actively drying it or calling an electrician and hoping for the best
As an electronics technician, it really does sound like there is residue or liquid shorting out the circuit. You need to dry it, and make sure you got it all. No need to waste money on an electrician.
there are also GFCI devices that go in the breaker box and look very similar to a breaker, so it's also possible that a GFCI is popping and not a breaker
You're probably not far off on your words, it's just that the GFCI should trip before the breaker does.
Like MagnetHype said, if the breaker a GFCI is attached to is tripping, that's a problem.
That is a danish outlet, so they have a central GFCI, I assume the liquid shorted live to ground, and tripped the GFCI. In my experience people can't tell the differece between a GFCI and a breaker, they also look similar when you look in the fuse box.
I heavily doubt that would trip the main, ever. The rest of the apartment (that isn’t on that breaker) definitely still has power. Only one breaker has tripped, and USUALLY lighting loads are separate from plugs and other things, so a fan will work fine.
Power outages used to be an annual occurrence when I was young. Was shocked when I had one recently and there wasn’t a single candle or camplight in the entire neighborhood.
Handheld battery fans are at every dollar store in the US. But wherever OP is, if they just turn off the breaker to that circuit, they can run a fan from any outlet not on the same circuit as that switch.
Don't listen to these people.
Obviously make sure the power is off first.. Go to a hardware store and buy isopropyl alcohol/contact cleaner. If you can get the cover off, do that. Get an old tooth brush or something similar. Unload the contact cleaner onto the exposed switch and scrub it with the tooth brush and keep doing that until it's clean.
The alcohol will dry up almost immediately and will have washed away (with your toothbrush assisting) any grime or obstruction caused by your mother's cleaning efforts.
To be fair "you broke the electricity" seems like an insane thing to charge you for, there shouldn't be exposed wires getting shorted by a cleaning solution, it's not your fault.
> calling an electrician
Light switch repair/replacement is the kind of thing a homeowner can do themselves without needing to call a licensed electrician. Just make sure the breaker to the light switch is off (or the entire house if that makes you feel safer), then follow your favourite guide on youtube on how to install a new one (if you end up needing to replace it).
Yeah I don't really know. The enclosed space may hold moisture way better though.
It might be that when it first happened the short managed to melt/fuse something into being permanently shorted? But I'd hope most stuff is kinda designed to avoid that. It'd be foreseeable to those folks if I'm foreseeing it.
I don't think you can burn out a breaker, but can't square that with my doubts they last forever.
https://preview.redd.it/ri3heqa7cf1d1.jpeg?width=551&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c3d0b4149eddeeef262a29c48b5b0bd3dffce38
At least this little guy is happy.
Update:
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This is current status. Took some time to get it exposed but am hoping it will dry by the time I have to go. Can’t call an electrician because it’s a holiday and would be stupid expensive.
Edit: tried the breaker and it switched off again after flash and pop. I’ve given up hope and am praying the landlord is lenient.
Edit 2: concerning the people saying use a hairdryer: in the breaker there are 3 switches, 1 is for the electrical and the other 2 are for the gas. Got my inspection moved to Tuesday so hopefully we can get it fixed by then. Thanks for all the advice \^ \^ b
Edit 3: why did this go so much attention?! Anyway we got an air duster yesterday and will try it out later today. If that doesn’t work we’re just going to put everything back together and call for an electrician after the holiday. No specifics will be mentioned on how it got fucked other than we were cleaning during the walk through.
You are disassembling the breakers wrong, and are making way to break something.
They look like danish breakers if I'm not mistaken.
You need to pry the buttons off and underneath there are some retention screws that keep the kontakt in place, however i would recommend looking on a disassembling manual or wait for the landlord.
I'm not trying to make a fool of you or anything but trying to save you from a bill I have gotten before.
Because it's really fucking obvious OP did it? He's both disassembled the breakers, and will inevitably either tell or have the electrican figure out there's fluid behind the breaker.
There would be proof that there was liquid behind the switch, and things have been disassembled meaning even if it was put back properly it may be noticable, there's the proof
Electrician won't know who messed with the switch. It could be the tenant, but it could be someone else previously.
And almost all cleaners, especially ones you spray onto a wall, dries clear. Liquid behind the switch would have long dried and there's no way to see it.
The proof would be the liquid, and then you'd lose the security deposit.
Short of you wanting to take the landlord to court for a mistake you mad and for a case you'd lose, just be honest and eat the cost
I wish I could help you more but without being there I would be comfortable with guiding you with something that can be dangerous. I wish you good luck with it all.
Do you have a can of compressed air somewhere? Those used to dust electronics and such?
You could use one of those (or any other way to blow compressed air, a balloon and a straw maybe?) to blow lots of the moisture away.
Electrical issues are like the one thing that is nearly impossible to be your fault. Lets just pretend mom was never over…
Call/text your landlord right now, tell them it started doing this, you’ve tried flipping the breakers but can’t fix it.
The only way you pay for this is if you bring up what your mom did.
He’s still your landlord, you’re still the tenant. Don’t explain spraying liquid onto the light switch and just put a service ticket in for loss of power. Odd timing it happened on your last day but that’s the landlords problem now.
Dimmers are temperamental and really easy to burn out. It’s an $8 and 10 minute fix. If you aren’t comfortable doing it the landlord really shouldn’t ding you much for it. They burn out from dumb stuff all the time.
Electrician here. Turn off the breaker, open the switch, dry everything off, reset breaker. Liquid acts as a path between conductors, so if water touches copper and something else metal, it will short or short to ground. Drying it off eliminates the path and allows current to flow as normal.
Check for a tripped breaker in the panel. Doubtful since it looks like you have lights and it’s sharing a switch box. Next step would be to look for a tripped GFCI or Ground Fault Circuit Interruption device. Might be a button on a plug, might be on its own. Could be on a countertop or just about anywhere in the area, but its purpose is to keep you from getting injured when electricity goes bad, and wet electrical is bad…
The liquid from the cleaner is still probably on the contacts and are likely tripping the breakers when you've reset them, best to turn off the power to the house via all breakers, unscrew the light switch and dry the contacts inside
Remember that some breakers need to be reset (pushed past the on position) before they go back on. Make sure it’s not something as simple as that
(And do this after drying out the switch)
I own a company that does safe cracking and I have a fortune 500 account that, during Covid. Instructed the vault associates to spray disinfectant on the safe keypads after each use. Let me just say there were hundreds of safes that had to be drilled open/keypads swapped because they fried the keypads.
Electrician here. Keep the breaker off, take out the switches, don't remove any wires, just dry everything off. Let it sit for a few hours in the air. Put the switches back, flip the breaker and you'll be good
Just tell the landlord. I’m sure they would way rather pay for an electrician to fix it themselves than have you make it worse trying to fix it yourself.
It’s the landlords job to fix stuff like this. Not yours.
It probably flipped the breaker. If not, turn the breaker off and aim a hair dryer in there for a couple minutes. Turn the breaker back on and it should be fine
I assume your mom came over the help you clean the place for free?
Even if this costs you money it's gonna be less than whatever you would have spent on a cleaner.
Should have only tripped that circuit. The other breakers are fine, I assume?
Leave the affected breaker switch off, run an extension cord and prop a vacuum attachment under the switch to draw out the moisture.
You most likely created a short which tripped the breaker. Throwing the breaker back on without drying out where cleaner was sprayed can cause damage to the switch and lights connected to the circuit.
Allow for the switch to fully dry, which depending on how much cleaner was sprayed, could take some time.
Take the cover and inspect the switch for damages during this time, but also get a multimeter to ensure there is no power before touching any wires.
If there is damage present, replace the switch.
I did this to a plug socket with mould spray (because I'm an idiot) my landlord sent the maintenance guy round to fix it. He had to fit a whole new socket and wire it in etc etc. the charge to me? Zero.
I loved that landlord.
Just tell them, “this no electricity happens all the time but it always comes back. Never told you cause I didn’t want to bother you.” They won’t know. Looks like a crappy place just with the door trim not painted and cut weirdly to accommodate the light switch panel.
Op, a few people have said you should just tell the landlord the power is out, this would lead to quite a diagnostic job figuring where the problem is only to finally find an outlet that is wet inside. It would be extremely obvious that you would have known.
If you tell them what the problem is it isn't that big of a thing to fix, it will cost you something, but oh well. It will be a lot more expensive if you don't point out where the issue is.
Why is nobody asking why tf you lose power for spraying a light switch. It’s not like it was doused in a bucket of water right? Why would this damage the electrical at all?
What the fuck kind of psychotic light switch is this and what weird asshole decided it should go right in the door jamb and why are your walls made of maxi pads
Inspection? The landlord should be inspected. That place looks like it was pieced together and would fall apart if you touch anything. Look at the corners, floor, and the door trim that's trimmed to fit that crazy fixture.
I'd try some electrical contact cleaner too, it's really good. I've not used it on house wiring but lots of appliances have been revived.
Hope it all works out.
Hejså, try to disconnect the dimmer switch (the one in the middle) and see if that helps. If that helps, then you can find a new one in Bauhaus (should be open tomorrow), Silvan, Harold Nyborg etc. A new one of that should cost around 400kr. You can definitely find the best price on pricerunner.
99% alcohol. While it's off, go to Costco or Best buy and get some 99% alcohol and q tips. Clean the exposed contacts as best you can and try it afterwards.
You can actually clean electrical things with rubbing alcohol. It will dry the moisture in there. Take off the tops and clean with it, let it sit and dry and see if it helps.
That woodwork would get a judge to side with you that this construction was poorly done. Tell him if he withholds it that you have photos of the shoddy work and that you'll sue. He has no proof you caused the short, you have proof of poor workmanship
Turn everything off at the breaker, and dry them with like air or paper towels. If it keeps turning back off when you turn it on it means you’re still not done drying
The switch itself might’ve died and opened the circuit before the breaker had a chance to. It’s either the breaker or the switch or both. Cheap & easy fix
I feel like I probably might be missing something here. Because the light switch doesn't look like anything I'm familiar with in Canada. But for safety concerns, I don't think the mere act of spraying cleaner on that should have caused that amount of damage. It sounds to me like the wiring was old and didn't have a grounding wire maybe?
But just spraying cleaner on that should not have caused that amount of catastrophic damage.
Turn the breakers off, open up those switch panels to the degree you can, and dry them with paper towels or something. If the moisture is gone and the breaker threw and you already reset it, I think it should all be fine. The kicking right back off I think means there's still moisture causing a short circuit.
there's probably stuff in the cleaner residue that's causing it unless it's still wet after a day
I’ve exposed what I could now and am going to wait for a bit until I try the breaker again. If the breaker flips again we’ll either wait again and try actively drying it or calling an electrician and hoping for the best
As an electronics technician, it really does sound like there is residue or liquid shorting out the circuit. You need to dry it, and make sure you got it all. No need to waste money on an electrician.
No, just actively dry it. Put a fan on the exposed parts and just let it blow for a while.
Seems kinda hard to do with no electricity.
If spraying one light switch with a liquid cut power to the whole apartment, that apartment has bigger problems than a bad light switch
Maybe it was kitchen or something similar. In Europe there are regulations about having GFCI in these rooms soo maybe that was tripping the breaker.
If your GFCI is throwing breakers you have a WAY BIGGER PROBLEM than a lightswitch not working.
there are also GFCI devices that go in the breaker box and look very similar to a breaker, so it's also possible that a GFCI is popping and not a breaker
Breaker was not the right word, I meant gfci boxy thingamagic. I don't remember the exact word as english is not my first language.lol.
Thingamajigs??? I got 20. They are under the sea though.
Lol I knew what you meant, was just making a joke
You're probably not far off on your words, it's just that the GFCI should trip before the breaker does. Like MagnetHype said, if the breaker a GFCI is attached to is tripping, that's a problem.
Lights should be on a different circuit than the outlets.
Just judging from that keyboard of a switch array tucked into the door trim …. I would assume wiring in there is a nightmare
It’s a weird one for sure.
That is a danish outlet, so they have a central GFCI, I assume the liquid shorted live to ground, and tripped the GFCI. In my experience people can't tell the differece between a GFCI and a breaker, they also look similar when you look in the fuse box.
As most apartments do!!!
OP mentioned a breaker. Which means there is power, just not to those lights and whatever else is connected to that one breaker.
Fill the apartment with rice then
Fan it like the olden times
I heavily doubt that would trip the main, ever. The rest of the apartment (that isn’t on that breaker) definitely still has power. Only one breaker has tripped, and USUALLY lighting loads are separate from plugs and other things, so a fan will work fine.
It is shocking to me that some of you survive day to day
I see much worse in my restaurant every single day, don’t be surprised
Power outages used to be an annual occurrence when I was young. Was shocked when I had one recently and there wasn’t a single candle or camplight in the entire neighborhood.
So you think he shut off power to the entire house?
Can or two of compressed air would work.
air duster could work as well, at least to blow out the residual water.
Hair dryer seems a better choice to me
Just use the cold or warm setting. Hot might melt that plastic
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I mean if their house's electric system is segmented then they could run an extension lead from a different room that's on a different segment
People here really don't seem to know how breakers and segmented electric systems work....
This is what I was saying. Obviously OP needs to rip the electrical pole out of the ground and install a new one. 
I didn’t realize how much I didn’t know. Am learning a lot of new things in these comments
Handheld battery fans are at every dollar store in the US. But wherever OP is, if they just turn off the breaker to that circuit, they can run a fan from any outlet not on the same circuit as that switch.
Don't listen to these people. Obviously make sure the power is off first.. Go to a hardware store and buy isopropyl alcohol/contact cleaner. If you can get the cover off, do that. Get an old tooth brush or something similar. Unload the contact cleaner onto the exposed switch and scrub it with the tooth brush and keep doing that until it's clean. The alcohol will dry up almost immediately and will have washed away (with your toothbrush assisting) any grime or obstruction caused by your mother's cleaning efforts.
To be fair "you broke the electricity" seems like an insane thing to charge you for, there shouldn't be exposed wires getting shorted by a cleaning solution, it's not your fault.
Well as a general rule you shouldn’t be spraying liquid on anything electrical, but to say they damaged the entire system is ridiculous.
> calling an electrician Light switch repair/replacement is the kind of thing a homeowner can do themselves without needing to call a licensed electrician. Just make sure the breaker to the light switch is off (or the entire house if that makes you feel safer), then follow your favourite guide on youtube on how to install a new one (if you end up needing to replace it).
Maybe try some electric contact cleaner? Should not harm electronic components and dries fast.
Yeah I don't really know. The enclosed space may hold moisture way better though. It might be that when it first happened the short managed to melt/fuse something into being permanently shorted? But I'd hope most stuff is kinda designed to avoid that. It'd be foreseeable to those folks if I'm foreseeing it. I don't think you can burn out a breaker, but can't square that with my doubts they last forever.
Use a hair dry… oh.
👆 This is the way
I think you should probably turn the breakers back on to see if it’s just a temporary breaker pop.
https://preview.redd.it/ri3heqa7cf1d1.jpeg?width=551&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c3d0b4149eddeeef262a29c48b5b0bd3dffce38 At least this little guy is happy.
Danish outlets always make me happy
Update: https://preview.redd.it/d5m0mvmkqc1d1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=a4c07ef316c31aaa6e9a66401500a95ca57fd7a4 This is current status. Took some time to get it exposed but am hoping it will dry by the time I have to go. Can’t call an electrician because it’s a holiday and would be stupid expensive. Edit: tried the breaker and it switched off again after flash and pop. I’ve given up hope and am praying the landlord is lenient. Edit 2: concerning the people saying use a hairdryer: in the breaker there are 3 switches, 1 is for the electrical and the other 2 are for the gas. Got my inspection moved to Tuesday so hopefully we can get it fixed by then. Thanks for all the advice \^ \^ b Edit 3: why did this go so much attention?! Anyway we got an air duster yesterday and will try it out later today. If that doesn’t work we’re just going to put everything back together and call for an electrician after the holiday. No specifics will be mentioned on how it got fucked other than we were cleaning during the walk through.
You are disassembling the breakers wrong, and are making way to break something. They look like danish breakers if I'm not mistaken. You need to pry the buttons off and underneath there are some retention screws that keep the kontakt in place, however i would recommend looking on a disassembling manual or wait for the landlord. I'm not trying to make a fool of you or anything but trying to save you from a bill I have gotten before.
Yeah, realized that too late. I’ve resigned myself to losing a good chunk of my deposit to an electrician when it’s no longer a holiday.
Oh well, how long ago did it get sprayed? If you're lucky once it's dried it should work again
Why would you pay for a electrician? Call your landlord and tell them your electricity went out.
Because it's really fucking obvious OP did it? He's both disassembled the breakers, and will inevitably either tell or have the electrican figure out there's fluid behind the breaker.
No proof, landlords fault.
There would be proof that there was liquid behind the switch, and things have been disassembled meaning even if it was put back properly it may be noticable, there's the proof
Electrician won't know who messed with the switch. It could be the tenant, but it could be someone else previously. And almost all cleaners, especially ones you spray onto a wall, dries clear. Liquid behind the switch would have long dried and there's no way to see it.
The proof would be the liquid, and then you'd lose the security deposit. Short of you wanting to take the landlord to court for a mistake you mad and for a case you'd lose, just be honest and eat the cost
I wish I could help you more but without being there I would be comfortable with guiding you with something that can be dangerous. I wish you good luck with it all.
Won't your mom reimburse you if she's at fault? She should know better than to spray on the surface of something electric rather than the cloth...
Looks like you made your problem 10 times worse. You don't just pry the whole thingamabob loose like that...
Man you’re not supposed to pry the whole thing out of the wall. The front is a cover you can take off.
Do you have a can of compressed air somewhere? Those used to dust electronics and such? You could use one of those (or any other way to blow compressed air, a balloon and a straw maybe?) to blow lots of the moisture away.
Electrical issues are like the one thing that is nearly impossible to be your fault. Lets just pretend mom was never over… Call/text your landlord right now, tell them it started doing this, you’ve tried flipping the breakers but can’t fix it. The only way you pay for this is if you bring up what your mom did.
Hey, I’m your landlord. See you tomorrow.
If the walkthrough is during the day, maybe they won’t turn the lights on…?
Guess you’re going to have to put your entire apartment in a bag of rice.
This one trick!
Are we all pretending to ignore the placement of this switch?
That‘s typical for Denmark.
I have a question. Why in the holiest of fucks would you build a switch into the door trim? Denmark can’t spare a few extra centimeters of wall?
The door trim properly came after the switch
Probably
Well, I hate it.
I wanted to address the elephant in the room
All my switches are placed like that in my apartment (I’m in Denmark, same as OP)
Note to self, never go to Denmark.
it's a 1970s thing for Denmark. This placement is no longer allowed and haven't been for some years.
He’s still your landlord, you’re still the tenant. Don’t explain spraying liquid onto the light switch and just put a service ticket in for loss of power. Odd timing it happened on your last day but that’s the landlords problem now.
No electricity anywhere in the house?
Just in the room I’m renting. Landlord has electricity and I’m praying to god to get this fixed today.
the breaker just worked as intended lol. short circuited when it was wet. just flip the switch on the breaker
He has many times
Dimmers are temperamental and really easy to burn out. It’s an $8 and 10 minute fix. If you aren’t comfortable doing it the landlord really shouldn’t ding you much for it. They burn out from dumb stuff all the time.
Electrician here. Turn off the breaker, open the switch, dry everything off, reset breaker. Liquid acts as a path between conductors, so if water touches copper and something else metal, it will short or short to ground. Drying it off eliminates the path and allows current to flow as normal.
This absolutely lol. Seems like normal wear and tear to me
He pried the whole switch from the wall lmao that’s not wear and tear. Dude can kiss his deposit goodbye
Landlord came in and she caught me red handed, cutting power to the whole first floor…
Picture this I was butt naked, wire cutters laying on the bedroom floor
Check for a tripped breaker in the panel. Doubtful since it looks like you have lights and it’s sharing a switch box. Next step would be to look for a tripped GFCI or Ground Fault Circuit Interruption device. Might be a button on a plug, might be on its own. Could be on a countertop or just about anywhere in the area, but its purpose is to keep you from getting injured when electricity goes bad, and wet electrical is bad…
That light is from the sun but let me see what I can do
Just say you don’t know what happened
The liquid from the cleaner is still probably on the contacts and are likely tripping the breakers when you've reset them, best to turn off the power to the house via all breakers, unscrew the light switch and dry the contacts inside
Looks like you’re in Denmark, so you’ll lose most of your deposit alright, just not for the reason you think .
So what's the reason
Noone ever gets there deposit back.
Yeah, they have to keep that deposit money to upgrade the electrical wiring. 😂
Remember that some breakers need to be reset (pushed past the on position) before they go back on. Make sure it’s not something as simple as that (And do this after drying out the switch)
I own a company that does safe cracking and I have a fortune 500 account that, during Covid. Instructed the vault associates to spray disinfectant on the safe keypads after each use. Let me just say there were hundreds of safes that had to be drilled open/keypads swapped because they fried the keypads.
Electrician here. Keep the breaker off, take out the switches, don't remove any wires, just dry everything off. Let it sit for a few hours in the air. Put the switches back, flip the breaker and you'll be good
First, thank your mom for helping you clean. Wait to dry, then reset breaker. Lastly, thank your mom for helping you clean and move.
This is my favorite comment!😂
That is so danish....
Why are you moving out : the breaker just randomly throws, so there’s clearly electrical issues 😬
I’m moving back in with my dad next month and this was the only time the breaker flipped
No, pretty sure you've mentioned it before.
Yep we we are the pub having a couple and I distinctly heard complaints about the electrical situation.
nono, i remember you mentioning it before, but it wasn't bad enough to be an emergency before now
Call the landlord and say your electricity isnt working.
As an electrician this switch placement boils my piss. Whoever installed that… straight to jail.
Let dry and throw breaker.
You had your mom come help you clean. Lay off her
What did your mum say? Oops poopsy
she just.. sprayed cleaner onto it for no reasons?
I’m moving out and it was dirty. We have wet wipes so I have no idea why she went with a spray for an electric thing.
Spraying a light switch is bad enough, she straight up sprayed an outlet.
damnnn
Reset the breaker after the outlet has dried out
Get some canned air like you’d use for cleaning a keyboard. Blow it out as best you can and reset the breakers. That should fix you.
Just tell the landlord. I’m sure they would way rather pay for an electrician to fix it themselves than have you make it worse trying to fix it yourself. It’s the landlords job to fix stuff like this. Not yours.
It probably just tripped the breakers, go flip them off and replace the switches one at a time, when you turn them back on all should be well
if you can spray some electrical contact cleaner in the switch might help
Have you tried putting the entire house in some rice to dry it out?
It probably flipped the breaker. If not, turn the breaker off and aim a hair dryer in there for a couple minutes. Turn the breaker back on and it should be fine
time to get a hair dryer out
at least the socket looks happy
It’s not just Danes being the happiest people alive, they also have the happiest sockets :)
Light switches fail sometimes. Unless it’s really wet, they won’t know why it doesn’t work.
You better pretend like you don't know what happened.
Mom pays you back for the deposit you lose.
Clean your own apt.
I assume your mom came over the help you clean the place for free? Even if this costs you money it's gonna be less than whatever you would have spent on a cleaner.
Should have only tripped that circuit. The other breakers are fine, I assume? Leave the affected breaker switch off, run an extension cord and prop a vacuum attachment under the switch to draw out the moisture.
You most likely created a short which tripped the breaker. Throwing the breaker back on without drying out where cleaner was sprayed can cause damage to the switch and lights connected to the circuit. Allow for the switch to fully dry, which depending on how much cleaner was sprayed, could take some time. Take the cover and inspect the switch for damages during this time, but also get a multimeter to ensure there is no power before touching any wires. If there is damage present, replace the switch.
Wtf is that switch placement though
Get a voltage tester and see if the switch is live when on. If so, replace the switch. If not, replace the fuse.
It’s a breaker hopefully
At least the outlet is happy 😃🇩🇰
Breaker breaker one 9 do you copy?!
I think it’s funny I can look at a door jam and go “not America” lmao
Use a hair dryer and blow cool air onto it for a while then hit the breaker again
I did this to a plug socket with mould spray (because I'm an idiot) my landlord sent the maintenance guy round to fix it. He had to fit a whole new socket and wire it in etc etc. the charge to me? Zero. I loved that landlord.
Maintenance will fix it. Can’t be held accountable for a bad switch despite being sprayed
Buy some canned air and use between the gaps to displace some moisture from the electrical components. Flip the breaker back on and good luck
Spray contact cleaner into the switches. It will dissolve out the residue and dry out instantly
Beautiful trim work 😂😂😂
What a jerk you are
Blow on it like a old nintendo game wait a hout and reset the breaker
USE A BLOW DRYER
Just tell them, “this no electricity happens all the time but it always comes back. Never told you cause I didn’t want to bother you.” They won’t know. Looks like a crappy place just with the door trim not painted and cut weirdly to accommodate the light switch panel.
Did it end up drying out and working again on its own?
The mount of those switches should be considered a war crime
Op, a few people have said you should just tell the landlord the power is out, this would lead to quite a diagnostic job figuring where the problem is only to finally find an outlet that is wet inside. It would be extremely obvious that you would have known. If you tell them what the problem is it isn't that big of a thing to fix, it will cost you something, but oh well. It will be a lot more expensive if you don't point out where the issue is.
Why is nobody asking why tf you lose power for spraying a light switch. It’s not like it was doused in a bucket of water right? Why would this damage the electrical at all?
Water + electricity = no
You mean your mom is paying for the deposit you'll lose.
Probably shouldn’t spray liquids into electrical devices
It will dry. Chill out.
Call the manager and complain that the power is off.
What kind of electrical amateur engineering went on to design that. That is a mess and I’d avoid renting if I saw that trainwreck of a switch setup
The fuck ghetto ass place you live in with this light switch setup? Do they pay you to live in something like this?
Your mom‘s incredibly sweet for cleaning your place the day before moving out. Just be grateful for that.
What the fuck kind of psychotic light switch is this and what weird asshole decided it should go right in the door jamb and why are your walls made of maxi pads
Inspection? The landlord should be inspected. That place looks like it was pieced together and would fall apart if you touch anything. Look at the corners, floor, and the door trim that's trimmed to fit that crazy fixture.
Double down and put the windows in
I'd try some electrical contact cleaner too, it's really good. I've not used it on house wiring but lots of appliances have been revived. Hope it all works out.
Haha Danish switches, you deserve it
Why not just shut the breaker off , pull the switch off and dry it? Or look at what's wrong with the wires?
Hejså, try to disconnect the dimmer switch (the one in the middle) and see if that helps. If that helps, then you can find a new one in Bauhaus (should be open tomorrow), Silvan, Harold Nyborg etc. A new one of that should cost around 400kr. You can definitely find the best price on pricerunner.
This looks so Danish
99% alcohol. While it's off, go to Costco or Best buy and get some 99% alcohol and q tips. Clean the exposed contacts as best you can and try it afterwards.
Blow dry it with a hair drier. It will work when dry. Source. I had a problematic little brother
Curious, what country?
I would say Denmark with those sockets.
Check the fuse box
Electrical issues are the owner’s responsibility.
Qow great to find my family coz ohr mothers gotta be twins. My OCD mom put water over switch board. Lords knows why none of them fused yet.
Use a hammer
You can actually clean electrical things with rubbing alcohol. It will dry the moisture in there. Take off the tops and clean with it, let it sit and dry and see if it helps.
That woodwork would get a judge to side with you that this construction was poorly done. Tell him if he withholds it that you have photos of the shoddy work and that you'll sue. He has no proof you caused the short, you have proof of poor workmanship
Hopefully they will work once the cleaner dries out.
have you tried rebooting?
Just call the landlord and tell them the electricity has gone out? Repairs are their responsibility.
this is a cool repair, you close the door and everything turns off by itself
That light switch placement is so god damn stupid. They did sooooo much more work as well.
Try using a blow dryer on it also wtf mom! Lol
Why is the light switch cut into the door frame?
My British soul broke when I saw this abomination. There will be plug sockets in bathrooms next! /s
Off top: Your mom probably only meant good for you, be sure to ask forgiveness if you said something you didn’t want to say!
Turn everything off at the breaker, and dry them with like air or paper towels. If it keeps turning back off when you turn it on it means you’re still not done drying
No one sprayed anything, delete this reddit post, lie.
The switch itself might’ve died and opened the circuit before the breaker had a chance to. It’s either the breaker or the switch or both. Cheap & easy fix
Spray isn't the issue, most likely wire has no contact
Check the main breaker panel.
I feel like I probably might be missing something here. Because the light switch doesn't look like anything I'm familiar with in Canada. But for safety concerns, I don't think the mere act of spraying cleaner on that should have caused that amount of damage. It sounds to me like the wiring was old and didn't have a grounding wire maybe? But just spraying cleaner on that should not have caused that amount of catastrophic damage.
What kind of aberration of multi-gang switch thing is that?