Hello Folks.
I have the luxury of being able to access the entire under (ground) floor area of my semi. This is where all of my services enter and exit the house.
I was under the floor today installing a compyter network cable when i decided to have a bit of a mooch around to check all of my visible cables and service pipes for damage and leaks.
I've had a closer look at my earthing and bonding. I noticed that my incoming gas pipe, which was installed about 5+ years ago isn't bonded to anything, it just goes into the house and up into my boiler, I thought it should be bonded within 600mm of entering the house.
Would it be OK for me to add an earth clamp to the gas pipe and connect this to my main bonding point ? The same one that my main water inlet and the Earth from my electrical service head is connected to, or did my Gas central heating fitters leave this off for a valid reason ?
Whilst looking at my G/Y earths and bonding conductors I've noticed that quite a few of the connections are made by baring a section of wire by removing 6 inches of insulation and then 'wire wrapping' the new 'spur' onto this. It all sems a bit gash with too much scope for corrosion and loosening of the connection for my liking, although on close inspection these connections do seem to be quite secure. My house was built in 1987, was this standard practice back then. ?
I have some metal earthing blocks and i was thinging of snipping all of these types of connections and termiating them 'Properly' in earthing blocks.
I have the luxury of being able to access the entire under (ground) floor area of my semi. This is where all of my services enter and exit the house.
I was under the floor today installing a compyter network cable when i decided to have a bit of a mooch around to check all of my visible cables and service pipes for damage and leaks.
I've had a closer look at my earthing and bonding. I noticed that my incoming gas pipe, which was installed about 5+ years ago isn't bonded to anything, it just goes into the house and up into my boiler, I thought it should be bonded within 600mm of entering the house.
Would it be OK for me to add an earth clamp to the gas pipe and connect this to my main bonding point ? The same one that my main water inlet and the Earth from my electrical service head is connected to, or did my Gas central heating fitters leave this off for a valid reason ?
Whilst looking at my G/Y earths and bonding conductors I've noticed that quite a few of the connections are made by baring a section of wire by removing 6 inches of insulation and then 'wire wrapping' the new 'spur' onto this. It all sems a bit gash with too much scope for corrosion and loosening of the connection for my liking, although on close inspection these connections do seem to be quite secure. My house was built in 1987, was this standard practice back then. ?
I have some metal earthing blocks and i was thinging of snipping all of these types of connections and termiating them 'Properly' in earthing blocks.