EICR bonding connection not visible/accessible

[westward10]

I suspect that used to or still has a cellar.

 

[ppelec100]

I suspect that used to or still has a cellar.

There wasn’t a cellar no. It’s the next road from mine pretty much the same type of build no cellar too

 

[littlespark]

There wasn’t a cellar no. It’s the next road from mine pretty much the same type of build no cellar too

In that case, where is your stopcock?


Too old a property to assume it’s under the kitchen sink.

If the on street stopcock is at this side of the property… I would guess it may be just up by the front door…..
is there no sign of any access hatch in the woodwork around the door?
I would expect big door architraves and panelled walls. And very possibly an original tiled floor just inside the door…. So any water pipe will not be under the floor.

Might even be original lead pipe.

 

[brianmoooore]

I've worked on several properties off this kind over the years, and the usual arrangement is that the supply pipe is buried all the way up the passage inside the door, to the kitchen, and is often still lead.
The main stopcock tends to be under a hatch just inside the front door.
In these cases, I've replaced the pipe with plastic all the way back to the street if lead, or from the old stopcock to the kitchen, fitted a new stopcock in the kitchen, wound the stuffing gland on the old cock wound right down, removed its handle and covered it permanently.

 

[ppelec100]

In that case, where is your stopcock?


Too old a property to assume it’s under the kitchen sink.

If the on street stopcock is at this side of the property… I would guess it may be just up by the front door…..
is there no sign of any access hatch in the woodwork around the door?
I would expect big door architraves and panelled walls. And very possibly an original tiled floor just inside the door…. So any water pipe will not be under the floor.

Might even be original lead pipe.

Mine is nice and easy under the stairs along with the gas meter (until cadent moved it to the porch recently) and consumer unit.
I’m going to guess it’s under the hallway floorboard. I’m going back there for an hour later just to check the bonding, if I can’t find the water bond I’ll have to C2 it and see if I can investigate it when I do the other remedial works. The gas I guess I guess I can measure the bond to the pipe but again I can’t see it and I’d be inclined to run a new bond to where the meter is so the connections are always accessible.