Coby:
If a little baby crawls over and grabs hold of a nice shiny radiator valve that has become and remained hazardous live because you have told everyone there is no need to earth radiators, who are you going to blame?
The baby
The mother
No, it's you!
That's very interesting.
Consider this scenario.
PME installation. Radiators are served by metal pipework, bonded via main equipotential bonding to the MET. The installation only has a water service, no gas. The water service pipe was changed to plastic, but the internal pipework (including radiators) is still metal, and bonded to the MET.
No problem there?
The kitchen has a flag floor. A baby is touching the radiator in the kitchen, whilst on the flag floor.
A PEN conductor fault occurs in the distribution network supplying the property.
What happens to the baby?
Coby:
If a little baby crawls over and grabs hold of a nice shiny radiator valve that has become and remained hazardous live because you have told everyone there is no need to earth radiators, who are you going to blame?
The baby
The mother
No, it's you!
That's very interesting.
Consider this scenario.
PME installation. Radiators are served by metal pipework, bonded via main equipotential bonding to the MET. The installation only has a water service, no gas. The water service pipe was changed to plastic, but the internal pipework (including radiators) is still metal, and bonded to the MET.
No problem there?
The kitchen has a flag floor. A baby is touching the radiator in the kitchen, whilst on the flag floor.
A PEN conductor fault occurs in the distribution network supplying the property.
What happens to the baby?
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