Sometimes plumbers just don't get it

[Jeffrey R. Pope]

The entire house was plumbed with CPVC

[mnahrgang]

That's allowed in some jurisdictions. The real wack job was the electrician who tied the bonding clamps to it.

[Jeffrey R. Pope]

The CPVC re-pipe is not an issue. I thought it was funny that the plumber (assuming) made the effort to reinstall the bonding conductor.

[Jack L. Gilleland]

I hope it was the plumber. I would hate to think the electrician did it.

[Pierre Belarge]

Jeff
The proper way to bond the plastic plumbing pipe is with the plastic wire that the gardeners use in their weed wackers, absolutely using a torch to melt it to the pipe for a quality bond.

[Marc D. Shunk]

Originally Posted by Pierre Belarge

Jeff
The proper way to bond the plastic plumbing pipe is with the plastic wire that the gardeners use in their weed wackers, absolutely using a torch to melt it to the pipe for a quality bond.

Yes, but that's for 200 amp. For 100 amp, you use mono-filament fishing line, and at higher ampacities you use 1/4" polyethylene tubing.

[jtedesco1]

Only after you sign this form!

[cbuell]

Joe, that is hilarious

[Charley L. Bottger]

Jeff that has to be a weekend warrior job would not even lay that at a plumbers door. Best I have seen since Mobey Dick was a minnow Sure glad those kind of folks live in CA

[sparksnmore]

Don't think I ever met a plumber that thought electricity would travel through plastic but I guess you just never know about people.

[Joseph Hagarty, CMI]

Originally Posted by sparksnmore

Don't think I ever met a plumber that thought electricity would travel through plastic but I guess you just never know about people.

Only a matter of time....

I recently inspected a home where the prior owner (recently deceased) had won a Nobel Prize for the development of electrically conductive plastic polymers.

Interesting read.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/c...000/index.html

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/c...res/index.html

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article...n-G-MacDiarmid

[kelliott]

Well hey, it's a water pipe. Water is conductive, and the pipe goes to the ground, right? And "perhaps" the pipe leaked a bit right there at the connection???