Metal splashback in kitchen.

[silver surfer]

A client has a metal splash back on the wall along the length of the worktop in a kitchenette.

There are several sockets mounted flush in the splash back, the circuit is covered by a 30ma RCBO as you would expect.

Does it require bonding as being as there are sockets mounted in/on it as there is a potential to introduce a fault?

 

[Deleted member 26818]

It requires earthing, not bonding.

 

[sjm]

It isn't an extraneous conductive part so no need to bond it. As spin says earthing it might be required.

 

[DNS1]

I'm about to fit a stainless splashback for a kitchen install I'm doing.

Never even thought about bonding it to be honest, should I?

 

[CrazyScozzese]

If it forms part of the accessory enclosure, and it is an accessible metallic part, then it is really an exposed metallic part.

Spin nailed it.

 

[telectrix]

if the socket faces are metallic, then the splashback would automatically be earthed.