bonding soil pipe

[cleverspark]

Hi, can anyone tell me the best method of bonding your soil pipe in teh bathroom? can you buy the earth straps to fit around the 110mm pipe?
Any Advice appreciated

 

[securespark]

2 x EC163 strapped together?

 

[Softus]

Drill and tap a small screw hole into it?

 

[ColJack]

i'm going to assume that since he wants to bond it then it will be cast iron..

have you TRIED drilling cast iron? yet alone tap it...

do soil pipes even need to be bonded??

I soppose it IS an exposed metal part...

just slap a dozen layers of paint on it and call it insulated...

 

[RF Lighting]

do soil pipes even need to be bonded??

Yes if in a bathroom

 

[JohnD]

You can get stainless banding, with holes punched in it, for this purpose. Not widely sold as most soil pipes are plastic now.

 

[nozspark]

Why not just box in the ugly f'in thing and be done with it??

 

[JohnD]

because it is a metallic service entering the bathroom

It will be in contact with earth at the other end so will introduce an earth potential which is unlikley to be the same as the CPCs and the other metalwork.

 

[IJWS15]

It might even be lead !

 

[nozspark]

because it is a metallic service entering the bathroom

It will be in contact with earth at the other end so will introduce an earth potential which is unlikley to be the same as the CPCs and the other metalwork.

I agree, although I was thinking that if it was only the soil pipe that was metal and all other pipes connecting to it were plastic then, if boxed in then it would no longer be an exposed extraneous conductive part!!

 

[Taylortwocities]

You could just wait until 17th edition comes out and bung in an RCD

(or RCBO JD)

TTC

 

[DESL]

Lets apply some common sense here - is it exposed conductive metalwork in the bathroom?
Is the stack metal and outlet from WC non conducting?

 

[Softus]

have you TRIED drilling cast iron?

Yes. Do you have some kind of problem with it?

yet alone tap it...

Yes. Do you have some kind of problem with it?

do soil pipes even need to be bonded?

Why would you think that they don't?

I soppose it IS an exposed metal part.

You suppose correctly.

just slap a dozen layers of paint on it and call it insulated...

You need to get a refund on that training course fee.

 

[Spark123]

Shouldn't it also be main equipotentially bonded if it is in contact with the general mass of earth too?

 

[plugwash]

Yes if in a bathroom

surely if they are in contact with the ground they need to be main bonded not just supp bonded.

i tend to think a pair of clamps is probablly the easiest soloution though.