Hi Folks
My Sister just bought a house and it needs loads of work doing to it, new roof, windows, plumbing, central heating, rewire and so. Its one job at a time as she needs to save for each one and it’s a matter of prioritising. Windows and central heating are her first priority as it will soon be winter.
Anyway, as I said it does need a rewire but it will have to wait its turn. In the meantime I am not convinced that she has an adequate earth for the house at the moment. Most of the pipe work is lead and I think the original earth was via the water supply pipe however the water supply to the house was changed last year to the new plastic blue stuff thus removing the grounding. I was looking to connect a new earth to the CU via the supply but cannot find a connection for this. The consumer unit (Wylex re-wirable fuse type) is situated at the bottom of the stairs high up on the stairwell wall. The supply cables (meter tail type, but old) for the meter appears to come through the wall from the kitchen area or maybe down the wall from upstairs and appear to pass through a ceramic type of oblong block. There is a multi-stranded unsheathed cable coming from the supply cable direction to the earth block on the CU but I don’t know if this is the earth or not. . This supply doesn’t appear to be anything like TN-C-S or TN-S but I think is more like TT but without an earth rod. Would I be better putting an earth rod in for the time being just to be on the safe side?
Thanks in advance
My Sister just bought a house and it needs loads of work doing to it, new roof, windows, plumbing, central heating, rewire and so. Its one job at a time as she needs to save for each one and it’s a matter of prioritising. Windows and central heating are her first priority as it will soon be winter.
Anyway, as I said it does need a rewire but it will have to wait its turn. In the meantime I am not convinced that she has an adequate earth for the house at the moment. Most of the pipe work is lead and I think the original earth was via the water supply pipe however the water supply to the house was changed last year to the new plastic blue stuff thus removing the grounding. I was looking to connect a new earth to the CU via the supply but cannot find a connection for this. The consumer unit (Wylex re-wirable fuse type) is situated at the bottom of the stairs high up on the stairwell wall. The supply cables (meter tail type, but old) for the meter appears to come through the wall from the kitchen area or maybe down the wall from upstairs and appear to pass through a ceramic type of oblong block. There is a multi-stranded unsheathed cable coming from the supply cable direction to the earth block on the CU but I don’t know if this is the earth or not. . This supply doesn’t appear to be anything like TN-C-S or TN-S but I think is more like TT but without an earth rod. Would I be better putting an earth rod in for the time being just to be on the safe side?
Thanks in advance