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So my mother in law has had BG round to service the boiler and as part of the service they now carry out a check on the earthing.

My mother in law informed me that the BG engineer went round the sockets in the house with a meter and wasn't getting a earth reading at the sockets.

I've gone round and believe it or not there does not appear to be a main earth at the consumer unit. There just appears a live and neutral.

I've got a socket tester and plugged it into a number of sockets and all three lights lit up and sounded to say that live, neutral and earth is present. Obviously I know this is not a reliable way to test for an earth but just trying to explain.

Now I cannot believe that there is no earth to the house. A large extension was built in 2002 and surely something would have been picked up then.

There is no bonding to the gas or the water other than cross bonding between the hot and cold pipes at the sink.

Ill upload some photos in a bit.
 
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I was doing a job for a friend last week and BG turned up to do the boiler,they don't use an mft,just a glorified plug in with lights on it that show values between certain parameters e.g 0-1ohm/1 to 5 ohms/5to 10 ohms etc.not the best thing in the world.
 
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As an employee of BG (tin hat already well in place), I get called out all the time when a service bloke sticks in a socket and see and the eli comes in at over 1 ohm.
They aren't trained electrically at all, and frankly don't have a clue what they are talking about!
9 times out of 10 it is alright, though as someone above mentioned just cos work has been carried out relatively recently doesn't mean it's correct, so could do with someone having a proper look.
Could be that the gas and water are bonded somewhere other than the meter/stop tap?
 
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atm84 said:
How do you upload pics. I have some photos to enlighten you all.
Click to expand...

good question I can never do it either it does get annoying
 
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sorry to hijack but when I do that and put my cursor over the upload tab it just fades out and wont do anything
 
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trying to add photo's
 

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