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Does this installation violate any regulations?

Andrew Lees

I have a water pipe running above and in close proximity to my electrical meter and CU (consumer unit) and I was wondering if this violates any installation regulations and would likely mean that I cannot obtain an electrical installation inspection certificate for my property?

The house did not originally have plumbing in this area and the previous owners have installed this pipe to service a shower room on the floor above.

Any thoughts on if this is a problem would be appreciated. Suggestions for what can be done would also be welcomed.

Thanks,

Andrew.

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    That is not a water pipe. It is a waste pipe but the only thing you need to do is to make sure that no water leaks from it, or indeed sneaks down the outside of it due to poor installation above. 

    If it had been a metal one  you might have had to earth it..

    If anyone is silly enough to tell you it is not compliant, ask them to quote which reg they think it fails, and why. If it was  mine I'd probably move the bell transformer and fill the holes in and paint the pipe to match the wall but that is not  an electrical regs issue, more of an offences against the naked eye...

    Now, are those red and black tails insulated with modern plastics, or an exciting mix of cotton and perished rubber?

    Mike..

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    That is not a water pipe. It is a waste pipe but the only thing you need to do is to make sure that no water leaks from it, or indeed sneaks down the outside of it due to poor installation above. 

    If it had been a metal one  you might have had to earth it..

    If anyone is silly enough to tell you it is not compliant, ask them to quote which reg they think it fails, and why. If it was  mine I'd probably move the bell transformer and fill the holes in and paint the pipe to match the wall but that is not  an electrical regs issue, more of an offences against the naked eye...

    Now, are those red and black tails insulated with modern plastics, or an exciting mix of cotton and perished rubber?

    Mike..

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    "If it had been a metal one  you might have had to earth it.."

    What?

  • 0 in reply to geoffsd

    ............if the waste pipe was metal, and it disappeared into the ground and needed main bonding...........I think is what was meant..............

  • 0 in reply to tattyinengland

    indeed- like soil pipes in many 19th century buildings, where it goes outside and changes magically to salt glazed earthenware somewhere between leaving through the cellar wall and appearing at the 1st manhole cover. Plastic is much easier.

    Mike.

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