Recent content by CaptT

Yes. What makes him think he knows about electricity supplies? He had a new CU fitted by proper sparky who removed the earth cable from his sheathed cable and all he can see is a new earth taken to a water pipe behind the gas meter. So he made an assumption that was the right thing to...

I suppose you must follow your conventions for regs etc..so you screw a Met block to the wall. Clamp a wire to the incoming supply "strands" and terminate it in the block. You then run cables from the block to each CU in turn. You then run two more cables from the Met block to Gas and water...

You can just see behind the gas meter the original fuse box and in the next image an early consumer unit put in to handle shower and kitchen (oven) electrics. The earth clamp can be seen, in new col for the new consumer unit plus the thin earth as originally used by the buliders i preseume.

OK taken most of that onboard so i guess that i have the TT system...should have mentioned its a late 1950`s house in case it helps...how can i be sure the earth is adequate and was my friend wrong about using the "armoured" cable sheath as earth is inadequate??

I have been told that the earth connection to my consumer unit, older mcb unit, is inadequate. The company supply cable has exposed multi wire sheathing, i would say like armoured cable, and a clamp has been fixed around this to which an earth wire is fixed. I assumed as the cable then goes...