Main Gas Bonding

[beekeeper]

I have a customer with a gas meter installed in cabinet below ground, the meter is currently being moved to new position with plastic main in and out of the meter, the consumer side joins with the existing copper main close to the property wall where there is an existing 10 mm earth conductor connected via earth clip.

According to the gas board the meter needs to be bonded but that seems to contradict the regs, i could understand that being the case if the service pipe from the meter to the customer property was copper but its not, can anyone advise if bonding the meter serves any purpose and needs to be done as it is totally remote from the property now connections are plastic.

 

[telectrix]

it's the coppr pipe entering the property that needs to be bonded if it is in contact with the mass of earth. bonding a remote meter is total rubbish.

 

[beekeeper]

Yes that's what i thought, thanks for such a quick reply

 

[44ALLAN]

it's the coppr pipe entering the property that needs to be bonded if it is in contact with the mass of earth. bonding a remote meter is total rubbish.

Unless its next to a wet tree or a soaked leek trench then 10mm bonding is expected as a minimum requirement.
Do an IR test first between the MET and the leek trench to establish why it's 'soaked' in the first place................urine is not accepted as an enhancement to Zs readings:ack2:

 

[Engineer54]

I have a customer with a gas meter installed in cabinet below ground, the meter is currently being moved to new position with plastic main in and out of the meter, the consumer side joins with the existing copper main close to the property wall where there is an existing 10 mm earth conductor connected via earth clip.

According to the gas board the meter needs to be bonded but that seems to contradict the regs, i could understand that being the case if the service pipe from the meter to the customer property was copper but its not, can anyone advise if bonding the meter serves any purpose and needs to be done as it is totally remote from the property now connections are plastic.

Depends on what happens within the property to the metal gas pipe after the meter? If it disappears under concrete floors and re-emerges at different points in the property to supply a boiler, kitchen appliances, gas fires etc, then it may well still need bonding. That's why it's always best to test. Then again there could be so many parallel earths within the property, even testing is not always going to give you a definitive value/result!!

 

[Geordie Spark]

Unless its next to a wet tree or a soaked leek trench then 10mm bonding is expected as a minimum requirement.
Do an IR test first between the MET and the leek trench to establish why it's 'soaked' in the first place................urine is not accepted as an enhancement to Zs readings:ack2:

Are you taking the pee here??

 

[telectrix]

you leave des's leeks alone.

 

[Geordie Spark]

you leave des's leeks alone.

Does he take a leak on his leeks then?

 

[Des 56]

Does he take a leak on his leeks then?

This thread is leaking me off

 

[Geordie Spark]

Has anyone mentioned Part P on this thread yet?

 

[beekeeper]

Has anyone mentioned Part P on this thread yet?

What, like taking the p?

 

[44ALLAN]

I was joking fgs................no one pees on their leek trenches surely after a few pints of Guinness in the club !
Then gives them to their mates !!

Then tells them about it weeks after 'said mates' have made leek broth and told them how nice it was..........hmmmm.
Surely not lol

 

[beekeeper]

I was joking fgs................no one pees on their leek trenches surely after a few pints of Guinness in the club !
Then gives them to their mates !!

Then tells them about it weeks after 'said mates' have made leek broth and told them how nice it was..........hmmmm.
Surely not lol

Leeks with a 5% alcohol content, different i suppose