They can refuse to provide an earth connection.
ESQCR section 8 first paragraph.
But it’s okay for you to use their earth?! It’s not a bad thing because when their neutral goes and someone dies they just go ‘he didn’t have permission from us’!!! I can show you a whole estate that was section...
Yep totally acceptable. Let me guess hdpe pipe? Metal shed extend it.
Use the armour as the cpc....oh no you have to use armour glands ahh a 4 core SWA? Baring in mind that’ll cost more than an earth rod honest to god comedy gold.
#E5
With designers getting permission to run submains you can p*** in the wind all day long.......because they have a defence. It’s a phone call and an email we do it all the time, it takes 15mins.
And yes they do say no a fair bit.
You shouldn’t export a DNO earth without their consent. What you do is provide your own! That’s called TT and doing the RIGHT thing. Get over yourself.
‘Respect for life, law, the environment and public good’
If you CRA something and come to the conclusion it’s okay to do. Then you have no respect for life or law.
You take the worst case scenario and you put processes in place to try and counteract it. You don’t save £5 and hope it’s not you...
Because you lot only read BS7671 and have no understanding of the massive list of ‘other’ ACOP’s......
which shall consist of an independent earth electrode and RCD protection. The TT earthing system shall be segregated by a minimum of 2m from any PME earthing system. The supply and...
Why would it be at a different potential when it's connected to the cable CPC which is in turn connected to the MET at the house ? Dear me this is so tiresome.
^^ so either you have done this or promote this, we are discussing supplying a ‘shed’. Or you are the troll and might I add, a very...
So you openly admit to taking the distribution operators provided earth connection outside of the equipotential zone it serves......you should not be giving people advice on a public domain that is clear.
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