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+1 on trying it in different rooms - somewhere that's on a different fuse.
I have a socket tester somewhere. I’ll dig it out and see what it says. Thinking we might be getting a man in though..
Simplest solution is to buy another electric kettle and if it is still happening then it will be something with that run of electrical cable.
In one place we did we found a nail through the neutral that caused this.
Other times it was related to a ground wire being partially disconnected at the socket.
Safest thing to do is get an electrician to do an electrical safety test, but that will cost the most unless you have my wife's taste in kettles (google Kitchen Aid- yes, she really paid that for a kettle).
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It works fine as long as the kitchen is treated as a sub-circuit, but not if it’s connected to the rest of the ring main... he said it was because a neutral connection has been made to the wrong place somewhere, so current going up one wire comes down a different one which appears as a ‘leak’ and trips the modern RCD distribution box - it wouldn’t have mattered when the house was built because it was pre-RCD. By making the whole kitchen one sub-circuit with a single neutral return to the box, it eliminates the problem - and is safe and legal. So he did that, since the alternative was to strip out the whole kitchen to find the wrong connection...
@Spark240 might be able to confirm if this is correct, but it sounds logical to me.
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FWIW friends of our family had their kitchen done out and the dog refused to go in there. Something frightened her. One night the kitchen went up in flames, and the fire investigation determined that it was a dodgy socket that was continually sparking and eventually caused the fire. The dog could hear it but the humans couldn't.
The kitchen bloke was found not to have the relevant sparkies qualifications and got done. The kitchen was re-fitted with proper electrics this time. The dog became happy to go in the kitchen.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
The thing with the amount of water in the kettle could possibly be that the current is drawn over a longer period when full thus creating more heat. Would also explain it getting worse throughout the day but really the main thing is getting the wiring checked properly.
Anything containing heater elements exposed to water can develop this fault: try a new kettle
It may be that the RCD on the kitchen sockets is a different rating to the others, I assume you have RCD in all of the house
Didn't the OP say this was the second kettle that does this?
He also said that it doesn't happen in another room so it does like a problem with the wiring.
I think he also said that it does it on a different socket in the kitchen, so it's unlikely to be the socket.
Definitely get an electrician out.