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Earthing and bonding are essential to the electrical safety of your Bromsgrove home. Their importance cannot be overstated. Without adequate earthing and bonding in place, you could be at risk of a serious shock.
Does my earthing and bonding need to be checked?
Whenever a registered electrician carries out an electrical task at your Bromsgrove home, they will inspect your earthing and bonding arrangements. This is standard practice and is the case for every electrical job, be it large or small, from replacing a socket to installing a new consumer unit. A registered electrician has a responsibility to ensure the work they carry out is electrically safe and without proper earthing and bonding, that criteria is not met.
What Is Earthing?
Earthing is used to prevent you from getting a shock should a live wire come into contact with an appliance or metal pipe in your Bromsgrove home. The average home contains many metal appliances, such as washing machines and cookers. It is not hard to imagine that the wiring within could become loose causing the entire appliance to become electrically charged. Without earthing, your washing machine could give you a severe electric shock with no warning. Earthing provides a safe path for the current to pass along back to your fuse board where it will trigger the protective devices installed there, alerting you to the fault and preventing a nasty accident.
What Is Bonding?
Bonding is used to reduce the risk of you receiving a shock when there is a fault in the electrical installation and you touch two separate metal parts. The most common fault that bonding protects against is a live wire coming into contact with the pipework in your home. A reputable, registered electrician will take care to ensure any pipework that could come into contact with your homes electrical wiring is properly bonded to the fuse board. This is a similar process to earthing. There are two types of bonding that are generally used, main bonding and supplementary bonding.
- Main Bonding – Main bonding is used to connect metal pipework carrying either gas, water or oil inside your Bromsgrove home to the Main Earthing Terminal. This is where the earthing and bonding conductors are connected together.
- Supplementary Bonding – Supplementary bonding is often used in bathrooms where electrical equipment is present. The accessible metal parts, such as your heated towel rail, are connected via bonding to the non-electrical metal pipework to prevent dangerous voltages occurring during a fault.
Who can check my earthing and bonding?
Your earthing and bonding arrangements should be checked by a registered electrician. As we have previously mentioned an electrician will do this as standard when carrying out any work in your home. If you have concerns about the earthing and bonding in your home, your electrician will be happy to come and inspect your current installation and make amendments if necessary.
If you have any questions or concerns about the earthing and bonding in your Bromsgrove property, don’t hesitate to contact us here at Allman Electrical. Our friendly, locally based electricians are always happy to answer your questions. We are fully qualified and NAPIT registered so you can rest assured that we have both the knowledge and experience to help. Call us today.