6 Mar
2006
6 Mar
'06
9:49 a.m.
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:17:17 +1100 Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net> wrote:
(In the UK where I served my apprenticeship, we were required to provide earth bonding to the copper plumbing system, additional bonding at every exposed fitting - this caused a few issues when plumbers first starting using PVC pipes)...
The US National Electrical Code (which has no national force of law; it's a model code voluntarily adopted by many jurisdictions) now bars grounding to pipes except within (as I recall) six feet of where the pipe enters the building, for precisely that reason.