interesting chat yesterday

[Guest111]

I was doing an eicr for a friend of mine, she, s just bought a house, anyway in walks the man from BG to do a gas safety check.He gets talking to me and asks what the earth loop is, so I tells him 0.19 oh good so long as it, s below 1 that, s fine by me he replied.He then got on about bonding the gas and apparently they accept the bond being 600mm from meter even if there is a tee before the clamp, now correct me if I, m wrong here but I understood that the bond had to be before any branches in the pipework, seems they work to their own rules.MInd you I had the last laugh, he wanted to fail the gas fire as she had no manual, fortunately I downloaded one of the internet.

 

[plugsandsparks]

Gas regs refer to BS7671 but state 600mm for the purpose of being easily identified, i.e. you don't have to go looking for it. States for PME systems its the law and clamp should be before any branch. So he has not fully complied with regs

 

[Knobhead]

Gas regs refer to BS7671 but state 600mm for the purpose of being easily identified, i.e. you don't have to go looking for it. States for PME systems its the law and clamp should be before any branch. So he has not fully complied with regs

Do enlighten us.

 

[fredrico]

I thought had to be within 600mm as far as reasonably as practicable.

 

[Megavolt]

Like it. It's the law. Sound like judge dred

 

[telectrix]

more like judge judy.

 

[wr1ght]

within 600mm of first branch (just completed gas safe course)

 

[plugsandsparks]

Do enlighten us.

Love to but cannot. I am doing my ACS for non-domestic gas but have some domestic gas regs books to hand. I have quoted directly from the domestic regs book. The non-domestic regs book does not reference a law just re-iterates BS7671 and a competent person doing the earthing etc. ACS qualifications are quite different to electricity, they are much more binary and when sitting the exams you have to get 100%.

 

[Knobhead]

Love to but cannot. I am doing my ACS for non-domestic gas but have some domestic gas regs books to hand. I have quoted directly from the domestic regs book. The non-domestic regs book does not reference a law just re-iterates BS7671 and a competent person doing the earthing etc. ACS qualifications are quite different to electricity, they are much more binary and when sitting the exams you have to get 100%.

Tel will back me up on this.

Many moons ago I started a thread on here to show how wrong BS7671 is regarding gas piping. I resorted to maths and physics to prove my point. Weird for this place I know.
There was the usual rhetoric of the “regulations say”. When BS7671 is wrong and is only recommendations what do you do?

PS regarding natural gas installations, we burnt 21M Ft³ per day.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

more like judge judy.

sounds like judge jackarse..

 

[telectrix]

Tel will back me up on this.

Many moons ago I started a thread on here to show how wrong BS7671 is regarding gas piping. I resorted to maths and physics to prove my point. Weird for this place I know.
There was the usual rhetoric of the “regulations say”. When BS7671 is wrong and is only recommendations what do you do?

PS regarding natural gas installations, we burnt 21M Ft³ per day.

remember it well. i may have to use that idea tomorrow, water needs bonding, but it's opposite end of terraced house to CU with laminate floors up and down. gas is next to CU.

 

[plugsandsparks]

Its interesting on one level, The Gas Act and its referenced regulations are not open to negotiation, they are what they are so I can understand why gas engineers say what they say. e.g. why would you compromise ,just because its a difficult install, its not worth it. From an electrical engineering POV it makes me laugh when the whole lot is run in PE with the bit that comes up at ground level in steel . WTF hows that going to generate a problem, we are talking of typically 1 metre of steel / copper before the meter. Anyway for the timebeing I am a student and will recite the doctrine. Hey ho

 

[Knobhead]

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