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practical need for supp bonding in bathroom

Can anyone suggest a realistic scenario where supplementary bonding would be required in a bathroom or other 701 location? I'm failing to think of one, although I may be overlooking something blindingly obvious.


It can be omitted as long all three of these are satisfied: ADS in time; RCD present; any extr-c-p connected to main bonding.


If ADS can't be done in time by either MCB/RCD then its not legal anyway.

RCD has to be present anyway.

Water and gas pipes etc should already be main bonded if they introduce a potential.
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  • However, there are still many installations where the three conditions (for omission) are not met; usually a lack of RCDs.




    I don't follow. 701.411.3.3 requires RCD protection for the circuits in the bathroom. Then 701.415.2 (v) says that you can omit bonding if (amongst other things) RCDs are present. Or are you saying that for existing installations which don't have an RCD on the relevant circuits, then its ok to modify the circuit without adding an RCD, but you must add supplementary bonding???

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  • However, there are still many installations where the three conditions (for omission) are not met; usually a lack of RCDs.




    I don't follow. 701.411.3.3 requires RCD protection for the circuits in the bathroom. Then 701.415.2 (v) says that you can omit bonding if (amongst other things) RCDs are present. Or are you saying that for existing installations which don't have an RCD on the relevant circuits, then its ok to modify the circuit without adding an RCD, but you must add supplementary bonding???

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