Gas main Bonding

[bryn]

Gents

Can you help me i seem to be going mad today reading this.

Customer has TT Supply with own Rod he is having new gas main installed from road but incoming main no where near consmer unit.

Suspect gas main may be MDPE so do I need to bond copper section to new cooker in house as not technically ext earth.

No chance of internal route from CU to new gas main any sugestions.

 

[kme]

Can you go external?

The discussions about "bond it / don`t bond it" almost always refer to the water service. If the gas meter isn`t bonded, you can get problems with the Gas-safe engineers (I just had one tell a customer they didn`t have a bond - I checked my EIC, and found that the meter is external cupboard, and the gas pipe is run externally until it reaches the loft. So I bonded it in the loft. He`s not happy its >600mm from meter.).

HTH

KME

 

[PC Electrics]

Yes you need to bond

I got a local plumber who gets in a flap about the bonding if it's more than 600mm from meter or it's after the first tee. But then if he's gonna put his first tee 1/2 inch from the meter outlet that should hardly be a surprise.

 

[steptoe]

Can you go external?The discussions about "bond it / don`t bond it" almost always refer to the water service. If the gas meter isn`t bonded, you can get problems with the Gas-safe engineers (I just had one tell a customer they didn`t have a bond - I checked my EIC, and found that the meter is external cupboard, and the gas pipe is run externally until it reaches the loft. So I bonded it in the loft. He`s not happy its >600mm from meter.).

HTH

KME

Gas regs Vs Elec regs once more,,,,,,,,,,

if at all possible I would deffo bond within 600mm of where it enters the property, (or at the most convenient point)

 

[ianmacd]

Gas regs Vs Elec regs once more,,,,,,,,,,if at all possible I would deffo bond within 600mm of where it enters the property, (or at the most convenient point)

Doens't the reg caviat 'where practical'?

 

[NozSpark]

I had this once....

I was doing some additions and CU change on a TT installation.. the water stop tap was the other side of the house and there was none any where near the CU. In the end I took the bond around the outside of the house (old stone cottage) in some flexi trunking (about 20m) which was then burried!

 

[PC Electrics]

Yes, the regs do have the "where practicable" caveat. I keep pointing this out to my plumber mate - he insists on getting me round to re-bond if he extends the pipework by so much as a few inches. I keep telling him that as long as it's bonded in an easy to access place and that the bonding is sound then he's okay. But he thinks Gas Safe will roger him good and proper if they came out to look and found it 2m from the meter! TBH, I've given up 'educating' him and just take the money now!

 

[ianmacd]

Not sure gas safe can do that as I thought their reg pointed back at 7671 so if he produces an EIC that clearly states why its not within 60mm then he will be covered.