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I did a 'friends and family' EICR this morning for a friend putting her place up for rental and found the most bizarre fault...
No earth. As in, none whatsoever! Mid terrace house, built I'd say early 80's, PME supply head but the MET had literally never been touched, no earth cable had ever been presented. The houses either side were fine when I took a peek in the meter boxes just this one missed out. But that wasn't just it.... there was a rod present. A shoddy, poorly terminated rod, but a rod..... that was basically just bonding the boiler installed the other side of the wall. So my guess is that somewhen back in time a plumber had put a new boiler in and wondered where to bond to so had just dropped a rod down and walked away. In doing so there was a 900Ohm Ze via I'm guessing the concrete path that's been formed around the copper gas pipe.
Quelle Suprise - there was also an NICEIC D.I. test label from two years ago. No way in hell that got a proper test or pass!
Took me about five minutes to fix it
No earth. As in, none whatsoever! Mid terrace house, built I'd say early 80's, PME supply head but the MET had literally never been touched, no earth cable had ever been presented. The houses either side were fine when I took a peek in the meter boxes just this one missed out. But that wasn't just it.... there was a rod present. A shoddy, poorly terminated rod, but a rod..... that was basically just bonding the boiler installed the other side of the wall. So my guess is that somewhen back in time a plumber had put a new boiler in and wondered where to bond to so had just dropped a rod down and walked away. In doing so there was a 900Ohm Ze via I'm guessing the concrete path that's been formed around the copper gas pipe.
Quelle Suprise - there was also an NICEIC D.I. test label from two years ago. No way in hell that got a proper test or pass!
Took me about five minutes to fix it