Bonded external wiring to gas- should this be boxed in

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• May 18, 2018

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^^^ Some guy died not putting his TCB'S on, don't know who he worked for.?

 

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• May 18, 2018

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they won't allow us to connect gas pipes. why should we allow them to connect bonding cables?

 

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• May 18, 2018

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yep, there's no way that they can test to ascertain if something is extraneous or not. case of it if don't move, bond it. totally in line with the bang test.

 

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• May 19, 2018

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westward10 said:

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

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Some sort of external capping/conduit mechanical protection would be an improvement, also visually.

 

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• May 21, 2018

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If it's thick enough it won't even need the green yellow sheath, so if solar radiation cause it to fall off it's still finebut it may not be in this case.

 

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• May 21, 2018

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Pete999 said:

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

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Do you have a regulation to support this?

 

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• May 21, 2018

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Corbs said:

Gas regs are max 600mm from the gas meter

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Do you have a regulation to support this? The gas safety in use regulations don’t make any mention of it, they only say that where bonding is not present you should consult a competent person

 

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• May 21, 2018

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Pete999 said:

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

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It can’t enter from the rear of the gas box as the hole would allow gas to pass into the wall cavity should a leak occur in the meter box. The bonding conductor must enter the box from outside.
Where possible I bring it through the wall just below the meter box then straight up into the box.

 

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• May 21, 2018

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davesparks said:

It can’t enter from the rear of the gas box as the hole would allow gas to pass into the wall cavity should a leak occur in the meter box. The bonding conductor must enter the box from outside.
Where possible I bring it through the wall just below the meter box then straight up into the box.

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Do you have a regulation to support this?

Unless the gas seal'ith the hole, with some of their putty.

 

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• May 21, 2018

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Hi rosalyn,
I feel that this is perfectly acceptable.

Preferably I would take the cable inside the house under floors to the meter, but quite often customers don't like there carpets and floors taken up.

Are your floors laminated, or tiled?

The cost implications of taking these up and putting back down or replaced is enough to go for the option of taking cable outside.

 

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• May 21, 2018

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7029 dave said:

^^^ Some guy died not putting his TCB'S on, don't know who he worked for.?

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Ouch didn't know that I've never actually seen anyone use the clamps usually they sit in the tool bag

 

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• Jun 4, 2018

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Bonding outside is perfectly ok, no capping or boxing necessary unless you want to hide the nice Green/Yellow cable.