How do you earth a tin bath

[harris48]

Could anyone give some advice on how to do this please

 

[Scoby_Beasley]

Tin bath lad ? I say tin bath ? Bah 'eck, we're lucky to have ole biscuit tin in front of t' fire

 

[lord nicon21]

Tin bath lad ? I say tin bath ? Bah 'eck, we're lucky to have ole biscuit tin in front of t' fire

lol well lets say its a metal bath and leave it at that but should i ask if you have a copper pipe going to it (hahahah sorry) well all you need to do is take a wire from the bath to that and the pipe should be eathed at the other end but you could check

 

[Damocles]

why do you want to earth it? If it is the kind of zinc plated steel affair with a metal sheet rim around the base which I am imagining then I would drill a hole through the supporting rim to allow a bolt to be used and attach a cable.

But as I said, why do you feel the need to earth it?

 

[harris48]

When installing the bath it stated it needs to be earthed. So it is a case of fixing an earth clip to the pipes via the bath and thats it, the bath will be fully earthed?

 

[mapj1]

Er yes, clamps on the piping is normally enough.
But in the UK, you don't earth it as such, the cable must not go back to the main earth terminal by the meter directly, rather it must only go to the earth conductors of all circuits that enter the bathroom, to introduce a separate earth brings problems of its own.
see the nic note on bathrooms linked in the reference section

 

[Damocles]

Regs specify that so long as all the pipes are bonded then the bath itself does not need to be. (including metal waste pipe if you have one going out the bathroom)

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Are the pipes to the taps, or the waste pipe, metal?