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My query is on an installation with lpg calorgas supply instead of natural gas,do I still have to run in my 10mm earth.Its just a bottle gas with a rubber hose connecting the copper pipe to the gas bottle.Supplies a cooker and a boiler.?
Ye same rules apply. The metal pipework in the house can still become live whether fed by a bottle or mains .
.....all of the above old posts are incorrect.....
Bonding has nothing to do with pipes coming live...Cheekycarl it is unlikely that a gas bottle stood on the ground and connected to internal metallic pipe will be an extaneous conductive part,which is why it wont require main bonding generally.
Precisely but not ALL of the above posts
I dont know
Hi guys. I've just completed a bathroom installation where there were no main earth bonds to the water or LPG ( bottles ) which fed a cooker in the kitchen. I ran new 10mm cables to both supplies as I understood this to be the regs but however the customer has took it on herself to ring trading standards and then the niceic to see if this really needed to b carried out and to my surprise the niceic have told her that the LPG didn't need bonding as it wasn't connected to a boiler!? I thought I was doing the right thing here so I am now confused and out of pocket!!!!!
Personally Id always bond any services coming into a property because it's covering my back regardless of external influences or not, which is why I'm very surprised about her comments regarding her conversation with this guy from the niceic.!!!!!!
What have 'external influences' got to do with bonding requirements?
And how would bonding a service that might not meet the definition of an extraneous-conductive part 'cover your back'?
It'll be the old 'pipes coming live' chestnut...................
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