My rewire is now in extra time but I am nearly there - just before the March deadline.

Two things.

Am I right in saying that there are different types of earth clamps and that I need an external one to bond direct to my Gas supply - the meter is in one of those horrible external plastic boxes.  

Also, all the cables are routed to the CU (which is under the stairs)  from beneath the floorboards; they then run behind the skirting board up behind the Company Fuseboard.

There is however a 4 1/2 inch gap between fuseboard and skirting where they are visible - all eight of them, side by side.  

Should I sheath them, and if so in what, or just clip them to the wall?  Currently they are loose.  The old ones (now removed) were held to the wall by many layers of gloss paint, but I don't want to do that...........

Thanks

JohnD.

Very helpful - thanks

I will buy an external clamp as otherwise an internal one would be too far away from the meter, and take the skirting off at this point and put in trunking.Thanks
JohnD

lol, gas guys a pain in the ... beanzy, I couldn’t care less myself, I'm not hear to satisfy corgi men and there gas bonding forms, especially the NICEIC one's..

Just recently one I’m working on has cross bonding to all the pipes, but because it's not right under the boiler, they assume it’s not there, well I took the time to do loop probe tests on the pipes, to establish if there was an earth path, which there was, and then subsequently found the earth cable's further down the building..

Considering this heating company was NIC registered they should be doing better..

[quote author=greg  link=1109114051/0#5 date=1109168109]so long as the bonding on the gas pipe is within 600 mm of the meter and visible theres no problems [/quote]
Where Practicable....