Supplementary bonding in bathroom

[pertinky]

Ye I guess I could just put it next to the CU downstairs. Its below the bathroom/ensuite. Might end up eventually replacing the consumer unit (its currently right down near the floor and the alarm is where I would expect the CU to be - this will be moved in due course when we do downstairs I just didnt want to start doing it now).

Feel like i've learnt something today!

 

[EFLImpudence]

It doesn't really matter where it is, relative to the bathroom, for fitting an RCD for a single circuit.

It's just a small amount of wiring at the CU to adjacent RCD enclosure.

The consumer unit is only RCD protected for socket rings.

Is that a separate RCD or is it actually in the CU?

 

[JohnW2]

Ye I guess I could just put it next to the CU downstairs.

It doesn't really matter where the CU is, or where it is relative to the bathroom. You would simply be intercepting the lighting circuit cable coming from the CU and inserting an RCD.

On the face of it, if you are going to install an RCD somewhere, it might just as well be (and would be at least as easy) to put it near the CU, protecting the whole lighting circuit, than putting it in the attic, protecting just the bathroom lighting.

Kind Regards, John
Edit: typed too slow again! Remarkably, EFLI and myself typed almost exactly the same words!

 

[EFLImpudence]