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Preparing a flat for renting

Harry Macdonald
Hi all,

I would be very grateful for some advice. 

My daughter is having her Edinburgh 1st floor flat prepared for renting and it needs some work highlighted by an electrical safety report. Some things have been noted as requiring remedial work that seem odd to me:
  • Two sockets are noted as being wired in Aluminium Twin & Earth cable. Is this likely? It looks to me like stranded copper.  Would it need replacing even if it is as this would be a pig of a job as the wiring is under a laminate floor.

  • The electrician has quoted for adding rubber grommets to all socket back boxes. I know that this is good practice but is it necessary before a property can be rented.?

  • The gas meter is plastic with metal pipes in and out. It is in the ground at the front of the house. Immediately through the wall is the termination point for the DNO supply with a big earth terminal with the rising (copper) gas pipe a few inches away. The Electrician says that the incoming gas supply must be bonded to the Flat main earth point, i.e. up the stairs and across a doorway and not the the building main earth point. Is he correct?


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    The bond has to be connected to the MET, which is the first point where the earthing conductor can start splitting. At the moment it sounds like your MET is the CU earth bar, but there's no reason why the MET can't be moved to be next to DNO cutout - but use a separate MET bar rather than directly using the DNO's earth terminal as the MET.
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    The bond has to be connected to the MET, which is the first point where the earthing conductor can start splitting. At the moment it sounds like your MET is the CU earth bar, but there's no reason why the MET can't be moved to be next to DNO cutout - but use a separate MET bar rather than directly using the DNO's earth terminal as the MET.
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