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Gas and water bonding
I need to install electrical bonding to my gas and water supply.
Unfortunately the gas meter, electric meter and rising main are about as far apart as possible in my house. The water is under the stairs in the middle of the house, gas in the garage at the front and electricity at the very back of the house, which is a long thin extended semi. I have a TT earth and can't see any point in connecting the water and gas to the main earth, surely providing an earth rod for each would do exactly the same job and it'd be a lot easier. As I understand it, bonding the services (in a TT system)is to ensure that if any part becomes live there is a low resistance route to earth so the rcd trips, so an earth rod under the stairs would do the same job as the main rod (earth is earth surely, if there's a significant potential between two points 15M apart then the worlds energy problems are solved). I can't find any regs which say this is OK unfortunately, does anyone know if I'd get away with it if I had to have an electrical inspection. If not, is 10mm earth wire OK, are there limits on the length you can use, and how it must be installed. Can I bury it? if so, does it need to be in conduit (what sort?), how deep etc. Any suggestions gratefully recieved, don't really fancy running the earth around the outside of the house but even less keen on trying to hide it inside. Could go up and through the loft but that'll be a long bit of wire. |