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Called today as client wanted boiler serviced/fixed. Gas safe man looked at meter boxed outside and said "No bonding! No fix!" Called me to assess. So...Clearly bonding x 2 are leaving the CU. Correct size. Test to water and Gas outside and readings below/within 0.05 ohms continuity. Suggesting there was indeed bonding connected as a previous electrician had confirmed the same. My consideration is looking at the above reg it says ...or at the point of entry to the building... Now how do you read that? Does it mean
A: the external point of entry
B: the internal point of entry
I have always assumed it is a matter of where it enters the building inside. Therefore, as in this case the bonding is probably connected under the floorboards inside the front living room as readings do indicate, and evidence of bonding cables leaving CU. What is your view?
Anyway it is clear that we must provide bonding to the outside gas meter so that work can go ahead and satisfy the gas man. Seems a bit silly to me but what else can you do.
 
The gas pipe that is outside in the meter box has got to enter the property at some point so the most practical position to bond the pipe would be on the inside of the property 'at the point of entry'. How the hell is drilling a hole and going outside to install the clamp 'the only practicable way'??? How is a job that takes longer preferable to a quicker method? (Unless you are on dayrate)

Like a lot of properties in such situ's the gas pipe is not always accessible on t'other side of the wall where the meter is mounted. Can't really see how either way would take any longer or would be quicker.
 
In any case, these two chaps agree with me;

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Like a lot of properties in such situ's the gas pipe is not always accessible on t'other side of the wall where the meter is mounted. Can't really see how either way would take any longer or would be quicker.
Inside is nearer to the consumer unit and you can't see how it makes any difference to use less cable instead of using more cable? Seriously???
 
Gas meters are like all electric meters ,mounted in an external meter box on new builds (that I work on)
If you didn’t connect it to the pipe in the box the only other practical place is the boiler as the pipework entering the dwelling is buried in the wall unless the meter box is on the outside garage wall and is visible in the garage. Boilers are usually if not in a utility then in the kitchen.
Nobody wants to see a green and yellow wire underneath the boiler onto the Pipework as it will look hideous.
Therfore it is bonded at the meter which is perfectly acceptable
 

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