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Nice one! Can put all the floorboards back down now!

Guys, lots of questions regarding steel conduit inside the house carrying mains for the likes of showers etc. but do I require bonding (and if so, what sort - direct continuous to MET or cross bond to heating sufficient?) if: conduit is steel and runs on the outside of the building running...

Bleedin eck! Now fixed. So why do clamps come with a) the strap through the label, b) labels that have slots in them?

It helped indeed. Thanks for clarification. :)

LoL - that is what I meant - like in ballistics where the rifling of the barrel leaves linear marks on a bullet (too much CSI). I was measuring just the bit of wire open circuit.

D'oh - regular strap fits - just. Pipe was a bit of a pig to scrub up - it's steel with lots of lovely pits and extrusion striations! Anyway, is this satisfactory? Wiki says resistance should be no more than 0.05ohms but I don't have the right equipment to measure - my POS DMM says 0.5 (even...

Yep, I just read the wiki (D'oh!). I'll find some meatier bonding straps. Thanks fellas!

That's my electric supply. EDF came and did some work on it just the other day because it was/is leaking pitch despite the service head having been replaced donkeys ago.

A much discussed topic but even after a lot of reading I still have a question. It seems quite clear that bonding needs to be within 600mm - but there's conflicting info whether it's 600mm of the pipe entering the building or 600mm of the meter. Pic of both my gas entry point and meter...

Good grief - talk about specialized tools! I get severely depressed these days whenever I see or hear the need for special tools - comes after many years of doing various PITA jobs on my own (previous) cars. Usually buy and use once and then give away or flog on the cheap. On the other hand...

Thanks for links. Luv this quote: "MI cable is also highly resistant to ionising radiation and so finds applications in instrumentation for nuclear reactors and nuclear physics apparatus.". That'll be handy for the hobby miniature nuclear reactor I'm building in the garage then - will keep...

Wow - really?! I wouldn't have thought that anything put there by "Skimpy Wimpey" in the 60s was quality :lol: No, not planning on increasing load in garage at all. It just looks really weedy and a bit sorry so I though that it could do with changing. It doesn't go through any insulation at...

Hello All! Been a lurker for a long time with zip all to contribute but finally need some help. I've done a fair amount of reading and searching on here, Google and IEE. I have a detached garage - less than a meter from the house. Although technically detached, it is joined to the house via a...