Recent content by French Chris

Ok, so I guess there is only a single mains supply water pipe for the house that runs underground from the water meter in the street. This is then spurred into the 3 stopcocks around the house. All I can see above ground is copper pipe and I doubt that the underground supply pipe is bonded, so...

Hi EFL, I understood that water supply pipes entering the house should be earth bonded within 600mm of the stopcock. This would mean 3 seperate cables from different parts of the house to the CU unless they can be joined together in the loft with only a single cable going down to the CU.

Hello all. I'm hoping to pick your collective brains on this subject. We moved house 12 months ago and I am gradually checking out the plumbing and wiring etc.... I want to understand exactly what I have got and what I am missing in case we do any future work on the house - it's a 1960's...