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The dreaded bonding again

Sorry for this but my boiler recently had her annual service all was well except they said I don't have any bonding in place except I think I do the gas main is bonded in the meter cupboard and the radiators and hot and cold water feeds are all bonded in the bathroom upstairs. All pipework is copper throughout the plumbing never been altered in 40 years except for a new boiler oh and removal of the water tanks. So can I be confident the bonding upstairs is good enough?

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0 geoffsd over 4 years ago

Do they mean the plumbers' favourite unnecessary looping between the pipes under the boiler?

There should be a main protective bond to the gas and water installation pipes ideally within 600mm of the water stop valve or gas meter outlet. Alternatively within 600mm of the point of entry of the installation pipe to the building if the meter is external.
Not so.
The 600mm. only applies (wrongly) to the outlet side of internal gas meters.

Everything else is “at the point of entry where practicable”
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0 geoffsd over 4 years ago

Do they mean the plumbers' favourite unnecessary looping between the pipes under the boiler?

There should be a main protective bond to the gas and water installation pipes ideally within 600mm of the water stop valve or gas meter outlet. Alternatively within 600mm of the point of entry of the installation pipe to the building if the meter is external.
Not so.
The 600mm. only applies (wrongly) to the outlet side of internal gas meters.

Everything else is “at the point of entry where practicable”
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