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Default Earthing through plastic pipe

On 14/02/2020 12:39, Andrew wrote:
On 14/02/2020 11:23, TimW wrote:
On 13/02/2020 21:59, TimW wrote:
There was an ancient (1950s) steel pipe bringing mains water into my
house under the front room and then up in the cup'd under the stairs.
There there was a stop cock and it went into copper pipe and onto the
copper a large sleeved earth wire was connected with a tag on saying
"Do Not Remove".

The steel pipe was leaking so I have taken it all out and replaced
with blue plastic pipe. Was looking at the earth arrangement and
wondering if I need to earth the wiring in another way, into the
ground or something, or are we still earthed through the water in the
plastic pipe out to the outside world?

TW


This is the supply in the porch:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZhguWVyk5kZkbs1X9
Two substantial earth cables from the black box, one going to the box
of trip switches, the other just dangling, redundant from the old
economy 7 circuit or something.

Can wiser eyes than mine declare the type of earthing arrangement?

RW


Does the black cable that feeds the companies 80 amp fuse come in
from underground ?.

If so, you probably have a PME arrangement. In fact the 10mm earth
cable going into that 80 amp fuse block seems to confirm it.

The CU and meter look reasonably modern (-ish). The ring mains seem
to be protected by a residual current device of some sort. Is RCCB
an older name for RCD ?. Not sure.

Curiously there are Wylex MCBs and an MK one for the immersion.
I didn't think they were physically compatible. Adam will know.


The black cable is the end of the overhead power line, attached to the
corner of the house, coming from a pole across the road.
tw