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DNO requirement for protective bonding

lyledunn

It is very common in NI for NIE to refuse connection to a domestic installation unless main protective bonding is in place to the water service pipe, even when it is the blue plastic type. Sparkies have to fit a copper insert in the plastic pipe to install the bonding clamp. 
I cannot imagine why they insist on this, but insist they do! I was wondering if anyone has similar experience in other regions.

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  • I did see a length (12") of copper pipe with a bonding connection inserted in a plastic water supply after a rewire in the UK, it had been very neatly done. All the water pipes in the house were plastic! so no negative consequences. I did take a photo but have not been able to find it since. There were a couple of other issues with the rewire including missing blanking plates in the CU. I have also been asked by a plumber to bond a gas pipe adjacent to the external meter supplied by plastic pipe, easier to do than to argue.

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    kfh said:
    easier to do than to argue.

    I hear the same thing from contractors here and I think that is the reason this daft situation has persisted. No one has made a serious challenge and as far as the NIE operatives are concerned, bonding not in place….no supply mate! And so it will contine.

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    kfh said:
    easier to do than to argue.

    I hear the same thing from contractors here and I think that is the reason this daft situation has persisted. No one has made a serious challenge and as far as the NIE operatives are concerned, bonding not in place….no supply mate! And so it will contine.

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