Hi,
I recently discovered that the ligting circuit in my home is not earthed.
Would it be safe and legal to connect the lighting circuit to the earth on a nearby socket?
No. I reccomend you rewire your lighting circuit, and unless you are absolutely sure the rest of your wiring is AOK, ask an electrician to inspect your wiring.
You talk casually of "connecting the lighting circuit to the earth on a nearby socket", but there is no earth conductor in the lighting circuit to attach to a nearby socket. If you're going to go to all the hassle of installing a separate earth cable running to all the fittings and to each switch, you might as well do it properly...
As Ban says, you can run in a seperate earth conductor. This is only acceptable if it runs in close prox to the live conductor of the same circuit, but if you're going to do that, then...............
Hi All,
Thanks for your responses.
I spoke to a qualified electrician last night who said that I could solve the problem by using double insulated fittings (switches, lights etc.). So I could surface mount (on plastic fitting) all light switches & change all light fittings to double insulated types.
You could also solve the problem of dodgy brakes on your car by not driving very fast...
Still - full marks to the electrician for not shaking his head whilst breathing in loudly through his teeth and saying "you need a full rewire, cost you 3 grand"
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