earthing new kitchen

Staffbull · 2006-09-15T18:18:45+00:00

I am intending using plasic pipe for the water feeds from theexisiting house to the new kitchen, existing house pipe is copper andalready bonded to earth, will I need to put in a section of copper inthe new install to bond to, and is 10mm sufficient for this bond, cablerun for earth will be 10m.many thanks once again, and apologies for the many questions, it's justthat this group in VERY usefull at the moment (finishing extension off)

Sep 15, 2006 22 Replies

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John Rumm 19 years ago

Not as likely to have globs of plumbers mait, PTFE tape, or fernox LSX in the joins though....

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ARWadsworth 19 years ago

NICEIC reference below

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it is usually architects that stick their noses in and demand the kitchen sink needs to be bonded.

Adam

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Staffbull 19 years ago

Cheers for the link, very usefull if the BCO gets arsy ( they have a habit of doing that!!)

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