c/u change no Equipotential bonding

[jimjamjimajam]

Hi guys. Am changing a consumer unit but the property has no equi bonding to incoming water. Usually I would make sure it is installed but from where the supply is would be a big job to put it in.
Can I still sign my work off and note that it's been advised or do I insist that the customer pays for the work involved?

 

[Silly Sausage]

Is this the same as protective bonding guys?

God (IET) knows,whatever they decide they're called these days,
Just green wires from pipes to the MET to me.

 

[FAA Greenie]

Here's the question nobody has asked yet..... Is the water supply pipe plastic?

 

[FAA Greenie]

Urghhhh, I see it has been asked..... Just no reply yet !!

 

[Silly Sausage]

Had a shufty at newly renovated house last year or so ago.
Plastic pipe coming in, brass stop cock, plastic pipe off to the rest of the house.
One guess... :smilielol5:

 

[Knobhead]

No conection to the MET?

Those stopcocks can be down right dangerous if not in bondage.

 

[Amp David]

Here's the question nobody has asked yet..... Is the water supply pipe plastic?

Yes, but we still have a few who argue that even with the incomming supply in plastic, if the internal pipework is metallic, they still insist on installing protective bonding, even with testing to see first.

My personal preferance is to to any incoming services and install accordingly.

 

[monkeyelectric]

Yes, but we still have a few who argue that even with the incomming supply in plastic, if the internal pipework is metallic, they still insist on installing protective bonding, even with testing to see first.

My personal preferance is to to any incoming services and install accordingly.

It would need testing in this instance to see if it introduces a potential, what gets me is when the incoming is plastic and the whole install is plastic yet some posts on here say that they would still insist on a small length of copper by the stop tap to bond to? Seems a pointless waste of copper to me

 

[telectrix]

yep. should all be given to wet-pants to make a complete waste of it.

 

[Andy78]

God (IET) knows,whatever they decide they're called these days,
Just green wires from pipes to the MET to me.

Main protective equipotential electrical safety connection earth bonding conductor cables.
I believe is the correct term :smilewinkgrin:

 

[monkeyelectric]

Main protective equipotential electrical safety connection earth bonding conductor cables.
I believe is the correct term :smilewinkgrin:

Thats a great thing to say to customers! It sounds expensive and worthwhile whereas just "bonding" sounds as if it should cost 10 shillings and is not important

 

[Andy78]

If I said something like that to a customer, I would hope they would throw me out for being full of ****