ELECTRICS

bill99 · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 10:58 am Post Subject: ELECTRICS

I have been told I have insufficient electrical bonding in my kitchen and bathroom. Can anyone tell me what this means.

davy_owen_88 · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 11:01 am Post Subject:

'Bonding' comes in 2 forms. Main and supplementary.

Main bonding occurs at the point metal service pipes enter the property and connect them to the main earth terminal of your consumer unit.

Supplementary bonding connects metal pipes within the bathroom to the CPC of all circuits entering the bathroom.

Both are very important so I advise that you get a qualified and competent electrician to update these for you. If you wish to do the work yourself however, have a look here and here.

Spark123 · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 11:04 am Post Subject:

The bonding in the bathroom is probably referring to supplementary equipotential bonding: clicky
The kitchen may be referring to main equipotential bonding: clicky

You buying a cartridge filter davey?

davy_owen_88 · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 11:07 am Post Subject:

Not any more

P.S Does anyone know what has happened to all the useful info from the NICEIC website? It's all disappeared (or I'm just not looking in the right place

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Spark123 · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 11:09 am Post Subject:

It got deleted when the NICEIC updated the webstite. Which one you looking for?

davy_owen_88 · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 11:10 am Post Subject:

The 'to bond or not to bond' PDF. Seemed to sum up most of the info regarding Main and supp. bonding.

Spark123 · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 11:14 am Post Subject:

Sorry, I can't seem to find that one, someone else may though.

davy_owen_88 · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 11:16 am Post Subject:

This is the best I could find from the PDF's I had saved: