On Dec 29, 3:10*pm, google wrote:
On Dec 29, 2:34*pm, fred wrote:



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On Dec 29, 1:02 pm, (A.Lee) wrote:
google wrote:
My flat does not have any mains earth supplied to my meter from
outside, by the power/network supplier. Flat is a traditional 1884
Scottish stone-built tenement building, 2nd floor.

Two questions:
1) Is the supplier obliged to provide one? If not, how much would it
reasonable cost to pay them to install?
2) Do I need one? My I have earth bonding to the gas and water pipes
which I guess can work as an earth. But is that safe? Does that mean
the pipes might be conducting electrical discharge and be dangerous
for anyone touching the pipes of the whole

A picture of the incoming supply and meter would help a lot.
It could be a TN-S supply, or maybe needs to be TT.
A pic would show this.

Alan.
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FWIW, this doesn't sound right. If your supply is of any age, I'd expect
it to be wired in singles (single cores) from a rectangular duct or
round conduit in the close. As you're 2 up there is no way that you
could provide an earth by any other means so I would expect them to
provide an earth if you tell them it is missing. Anyway, let us see the
pics and it should become clear. Try to see where the cables are coming
into your flat.
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(1) pic of feed to meter inside my propertyhttp://tinypic.com/r/ixuom0/7

(2) pic of junction box in shared close/stairway:http://tinypic.com/r/nmn3nt/7

Having someone here to talk sense is great, thanks for your help so
far guys. Just looking in the shared junction box I can see how my
nieghbour has connected an earth wire to the box, and that there is
not much work involved in connecting an earth cable from my flat to
the box (3 meters). But I think legally I must use the supply company
to make the connection, is that right?

I've called them and waiting on a call back.

I should've added that, my flat is on the left of the box, so the red
+ black cables coming into the box on the left are mine, no green
earth cable. My neighbours red, black and shiny new earth cable are on
the right, It seems the earthing in only to the metal box, which i
guess is earthed through the conduit going downwards.