Electrical Regs 2002 and earth bonding
I did my 'leccy C&G back in 1995 and new regs seem to
zip past me like speedy zippy things. I've just got a quote for new/replacement supplies to my flats and it mentions the earthing needs to comply with the Electrical Safety Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002. I've read through the HMSO paper and it all seems to be regulations for suppliers and distributers, other than one mention of: "the consumer must not join the earth and neutral conductors within an installation". In other words, a "normal" installation, phase earth and neutral everywhere. Is that correct, or am I missing something? ta. -- JGH |
Electrical Regs 2002 and earth bonding
"jgharston" wrote in message ... I did my 'leccy C&G back in 1995 and new regs seem to zip past me like speedy zippy things. I've just got a quote for new/replacement supplies to my flats and it mentions the earthing needs to comply with the Electrical Safety Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002. I've read through the HMSO paper and it all seems to be regulations for suppliers and distributers, other than one mention of: "the consumer must not join the earth and neutral conductors within an installation". In other words, a "normal" installation, phase earth and neutral everywhere. Is that correct, or am I missing something? ta. JGH I think it's been worded differently to confuse the cowboys (sorry, the unqualified or DIYer) a bit more, but nothing seems to have changed otherwise. The supplier has to make sure their bit is properly bonded, because some supplies didn't meet the current minimum standards. But that's it, I think. You know what those IEE people are like. Never get one went you want one, then three come along together and disagree with each other. |
Electrical Regs 2002 and earth bonding
Tim wrote:
Do you want to ask anything specific about what you are doing - you mentioned "flats" so it sounds like a non-trivial thing that you're up to. About ten years ago I bought a building that contains: basement workshop, ground floor shop, first floor flat, second floor flat. Picture at http://mdfs.net/User/HWPS/shop.htm There are two supply meters: basement+shop, flat1+flat2. It's always been a hassle organising the respective tenants to contribute their respective shares of their bills. Plus, the meters are in the basement, inaccessible to the shop or flat occupants. When I bought the properties I rewired everything to 16th Ed (got my C&G in 1995, did the work in 1997), which required some fiddly working out for the flats, see http://mdfs.net/Docs/Electrical/Supply/Multiple/ Previously, the second floor flat's consumer unit was in the basement! The first floor flat became vacant last year, so I decided, along with replacing windows, heating, kithcen, bathroom, carpets, decor, etc., to get everything properly metered on their own supplies, ie: workshop, shop, flat1, flat2, landlord, all installed where the relevant consumer can see their own meter. The supplier quote mentioned the 2002 regs, which I hadn't come across before. -- JGH |
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