Testing & Certificates

[Spark123]

I have heard of it, its usually the plumbers that demand it, some sort of gas regulation possibly? The only place you would need to supplementary bond a boiler like this to satisfy the iee regs is when it has been installed in a bathroom / spec locn.
Main bonding needs to be applied to any extraneous conductive part entering the house (ideally within 600mm of entry).

 

[Pensdown]

Yes seems a bit dull doesnt it. just to strap all the 5 or 6 pipes together with 10mm where less than a foot away they are linked via the boiler housing anyway.

And which regulation(s) are you working to?

Not sure. Will you enlighted me as to which I should be aiming at... I think perhaps it is one of these historical things where all boilers seem to have bonding nearby and when the plumber decided to rip out all the pipework when installing new the he seems to think it requires same bonding to be replaced. I am more than willing to learn...

Sorry Owspark, it wasn't a trick question. I'm just not aware of any electrical regs that call for the boiler to be cross bonded (thats to say there isn't one). I thought it may be a gas regulation?

 

[RF Lighting]

We've been using normal MEW and normal PIR so I'm glad to hear we are not alone. This week we have taken delivery of a domestic set of test certs (yippee, another £ 100+ well spent) but I've not had a chance to compare them to see if we've wasted our money or not.

I've not actually seen a domestic MEW so I can't compare them, but I can't see them being much different.

The domestic MEW is a good idea, and perfect for a domestic mains change etc. Two pages less, but you still get all the information down on them.

The domestic PIRs are OK but don't give you enough room for faults. I am not sure about these yet, but then I haven't really done many since we got the new forms. I only tend to do domestic PIRs if we are s*** out with them.

 

[owspark]

Sorry Owspark, it wasn't a trick question. I'm just not aware of any electrical regs that call for the boiler to be cross bonded (thats to say there isn't one). I thought it may be a gas regulation?

You may well be right. the bathroom location for suppl. bonding makes perfect sense. Will check with plumber to see if he has any reason other than "we have always done it this way"! Can´t be a bad thing to strap across the earthy mass of copper though can it. BUT this doesn´t get me any closer to answering whether to certify or not ... just for supplementary bonding!

 

[Pensdown]

As I said before, the items you listed are fixed wiring so you must certify. If they are fed via a plug and socket when you certify you should be detailing that as a deviation from 7671.