Bonded external wiring to gas- should this be boxed in

[Rosalyn Miller]

Besides finding a slug in my bathroom this morning- via the hole in the wall for the bonding.. should this earth bonding wire connecting my gas box be boxed in or is it ok outside as it is? Many thanks

 

[westward10]

Strictly speaking it should be enclosed to protect it from solar damage.

 

[Pete999]

The gas bond should be inside your house, quite why the electrician has ran the cable outside is debatable, perhaps there is some difficulty in locating the pipe inside your house

 

[multimick]

nothing worse than a slug that hogs the bathroom in the morning

 

[Octopus]

The gas bond should be inside your house, quite why the electrician has ran the cable outside is debatable, perhaps there is some difficulty in locating the pipe inside your house

"where practical"

 

[Pete999]

"where practical"

Yeah OK, but he could have taken the bond straight into the service box, same route as the internal gas pipe.

 

[Octopus]

Yeah OK

I'm only quoting our glorious regs ..........

 

[Midwest]

Yeah OK, but he could have taken the bond straight into the service box, same route as the internal gas pipe.

The bonding cable looks a bit newer than the gas pipe etc; perhaps its been upgraded, and this was the least disruptive option?

 

[Wilko]

Definitely deploy the goop gun and seal it all up though

 

[telectrix]

BG have a nasty habit of doing this. as pete said, bond shoule be to gas inside the property within 600mm of point of entry ( with murdoch's proviso of where practicable). there's no requirement to go to the external meter box (unless maybe when there's a branch in the pipework in tsaid box).