Stefek Zaba wrote:
Lobster wrote:


Back in the good old (pre-Part-P) days I deliberately omitted bonding
from the kitchen last time I did a rewire, having read up on this
issue here; and for my trouble I failed the Periodic Inspection
carried out by a sparks after I'd finished!

Yeah - there's a significantly misleading bit in Whitfield's usually
reliable guide-to-the-Regs, which more or less claims that Kitchenz Need
Bondage... and since Whitfield's a lot more readable and
practically-oriented than the Regs, it takes precedence in many a
real-life sparky's mind.

Talking of Whitfield's and bondage...

I'm quite confused by the explanation of bonding the incoming gas and
water supplies to te main earthing terminal.

Figure 5.13 (on p96 in the 6th edn) it shows the connection being made
to the gas supply on the house side of the gas meter - fine. But the
connection to the rising main is shown on the street side of the
stopcock, albeit with the proviso that it should go to the house side of
the stopcock if the pipe is insulated on the street side.

Now why is that? Why doesn't Whitfield show the default connection to
the rising main being on the house side of the stopcock? (This in fact
was my other 'failure' by the same electrician - I had my bonding cable
on the street side (all metal pipework)!

David