If there was earth bonding to the rad before, there should be earth bonding to the towel rail.
Just FYI the house was rewired five years ago, the electrics are very sensitive now; any electrical thing get's wet and the fuse will trip on the consumer unit.
Hello there,
Just a thought, is earth bonding a requirement on the pipes going into the boiler?
Seen my Grandads Isar and all pipes have earth bonding on them
If the pipework feeding the towel rail is already covered by supplementary bonding then there is no need to have a bond on the actual towel rail unless for some other reason i.e. it is electric or it is in contact with something like a metallic building structure.If there was earth bonding to the rad before, there should be earth bonding to the towel rail.
Are you sure thats correct?
The idea of supplementary bonding is that it is local, it doesn't connect back the the MET.The old supplementary bonding to the original rad probably went back to the earth at the meter or to some other earthed things in the house.
Earthing is the wrong term to use, it indicates there is an intentional connection with earth. The aim of supplementary equipotential bonding is that it makes all extraneous or exposed conductive parts of the location at or about the same potential, limiting the risk of shock by simultaneously touching two parts.My understanding is that ANY earthing in a bathroom must now be connected to a single point and normally at an earthing point where the lighting circuit enters the area. Effectively making a Faraday cage.
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