Wow!! Can anyone tell me what is going on with this old install?

[Spark2be]

This installation is under the stairs. The isolation switch on the left is for the lights of the property and the one on the right is for all ring mains. All the earthing wires from circuits seem to be wrapped around a screw in the top left of the unit, but there is no earthing connected to the incoming and there is a white wire wrapped around the pipe which runs in a panel of the stair case. I am not sure how old this installation is but earthing does not seem something that was considered.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Thanks for the offer, I'll be leaving the ancient clamp that's there as it is! :smiley2:
I got warned off messing with old lead sheathed supply cables years ago, leave that to the likes of you.

 

[Geordie Spark]

I've still got my moleskin if you want to borrow it.

You offering to lend Archie yer posing pouch ????!!!! mg_smile:

 

[Silly Sausage]

You offering to lend Archie yer posing pouch ????!!!! mg_smile:

hahahhhaaha...you sick Geordie b........
Putting me off me beer.

 

[mikehopkins]

Correct me if I am wrong but I cannot think that any edition of the regs has allowed for an earth to be taken off an incoming gas main.

 

[Knobhead]

He'd never fill it!

 

[Geordie Spark]

hahahhhaaha...you sick Geordie b........
Putting me off me beer.

It would probably not fit you anyway Archie

 

[Knobhead]

Correct me if I am wrong but I cannot think that any edition of the regs has allowed for an earth to be taken off an incoming gas main.

It's a paper lead cable!

There was electricity before the 17th edition.

 

[Silly Sausage]

He'd never fill it!

I can email you a picture if you want?

 

[mechelec]

DNO will charge for this.....just rod it....

I would carry out a Ze test to the sheath. I can guarantee that the sweated on lug will give a trouble free connection to the lead, beautiful bit of sweating. If it is a good Ze reading ie less than 0.8 ohms i would use it to commect your main earthing conductor to.

 

[Knobhead]

I can email you a picture if you want?

I get enough weird e-mail without you adding to it!

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[Silly Sausage]

I would carry out a Ze test to the sheath. I can guarantee that the sweated on lug will give a trouble free connection to the lead, beautiful bit of sweating. If it is a good Ze reading ie less than 0.8 ohms i would use it to commect your main earthing conductor to.

I agree, but he got warned off live testing on his previous thread, he's a youngster.

 

[Guitarist]

The fact that the OP hasn't heard of the terms "RFC" or "PME" suggests to me that at the moment he should stay away from electrical systems.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

what i cant understand is why i`m getting quoted for replying to a post about applying for PME in the first place.....i never said that i would have it PME`d....nor did i suggest that there wasn`t an adequate earthing arrangement here either.....

 

[Silly Sausage]

what i cant understand is why i`m getting quoted for replying to a post about applying for PME in the first place.....i never said that i would have it PME`d....nor did i suggest that there wasn`t an adequate earthing arrangement here either.....

I think you brought this on yourself with post No 21

 

[GLENNSPARK]

I think you brought this on yourself with post No 21

but i only quoted some other fellas post...anyway, i dont care....i can be nice.....but i can be a nasty B***ard n all....