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Assuming pme of course
What about the RCD of the Distribution CCT!
Design of an electrical installation is not based upon assumptions.
a 16mm twin and earth goes to each flat where the sparky will fit new boards to serve each flat.
Here is a couple of comments I would like to make regards the last few posts
The opening post does not say the cables are buried
Or if they are buried and mechanically protected
Or if it is the intention to have them in surface trunking
It may be the case that the regs can be interpreted to require main bonding only at the point of entry,however,each flat then relies on that main bond remaining intact to ensure the particular service remains bonded for their individual service
It would seem to be an improvement to ensure that each flat has its own means of ensuring main bonding is reliably bonded by doing so locally to each flat
Bonding at the Gas meter in the garden would extend the zone outside of the building,I think it needs fitting where the pipe enters the building
The main bonding would only need to installed within the gas floor boxes outside on the consumer side of the stop cock. The main water assuming this would be in the riser position would require a main bond only in the incomer position both sized in accordance to the main neutral. They won't require any additional bonding within the flat themselves as there are no other earth potentials being introduced. The submains to the flats will require a disconnection time of 5 seconds so no rcd will be required. Each flat would need rcds / rcbos internally split across lighting circuits etc as not to cause full failure if a fault occurs.
Normally if an underground extraneous pipe goes from one building to another both bonds would be required as to equalise both potential differences between them, I hope this helps.
If you consider the information in the guidance note on earthing and bonding then it makes it pretty hard to interpret the regs as only requiring bonding at the incoming.
if the main bond is in place though outside, and the submain carried its own earth connected to the main terminal this would also common up all of the bonding, nowadays assuming plastic incomers it would only be supplementary bonding and may not even be extraneous, the electrician on site would have to make this decision.
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