Socket backboxs

[Welshsparky]

How many sparkys on here earth the metal backboxs for domestic sockets ( linking the earth from the socket to the backbox)?

 

[Griffin]

All the time..... Not nesessarily required if there is 1 fixed lug on backbox..... however IMO it is good practice.

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[Deleted member 9648]

I do.....not strictly neccessary but good practice and old habits die hard.

 

[cagedanimal2010]

aslong as back box got a fixed lug its not necessary .

 

[Sintra]

Have a read of this thread as previously discussed.

 

[mrmatt]

Always its a habit, have a roll of 1.5 single yellow/green for the purpose

 

[ggf]

I do it in auto pilot

 

[lloyd1980]

I always do it, my way is the stripped cpc from the cables im terminating , snip a peice and sleeve it then dab it in the lug and connect to socket, ive always done that

each to their own tho

 

[Pinto Baz]

According to the time and motion accountant type, it isn't necessary. According to me it doesn't take long and could save a life.

 

[TPES]

According to the time and motion accountant type, it isn't necessary. According to me it doesn't take long and could save a life.

How could this save a life?

I understand old habits are hard to stop, but if it's not needed then why waste your time?

My 2391 tutor said your wasting your time now, if it was a full rewire or a very large block of offices or commercial Install with a large amount of sockets then this would be a lot of wasted time, why do something that isn't required?

 

[spamwize2]

lol everything now is bootlaces since rcd's no need for earth anywhere as long as you have water, gas and electric properly earthed. but to be on the safe side supplementary earth cant be bad

 

[Pinto Baz]

If the tiler of painter what to get behind the edge of the socket he will just remove the screw and pull it forward. OK, maybe he shouldn't but it happens. As for your 2391 guy,like I said, accountant type, 50 seconds x 1000 boxes. Guess I am natural born small time/old time.

 

[spamwize2]

ok pinto but disconection times with rcd's or rcbo's are so fast that you couldnt even nick a cable

 

[danzor]

I'm with the majority, it's what I was taught so I do it out of habit. I could quite easily follow suit. One thing that annoys me about this is people take a cpc from the ring into the back box, and from there into the socket. Maybe it's just me.

 

[Adam W]

Again, I do because I was taught to at college.
Why else would they teach us to do that? For a laugh?