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several recent posts have been discussing working on piping and get shocked electrically. This is frequent occurence now days. I wonder what precautions are being taken before working on piping. What are your safety procedures?

What do you do when installing piping to prevent the possibility of electrical shock?

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  • jim lockard
    jim lockard Member Posts: 1,059
    electric shock

    Great Question Tim. It used to be with metal piping (dom. water,Sewer, and Heat) systems grounded to the electrical system everthing stayed at the same potenial. Now that we connect the sinks with plastic pipe,repair defective metal piping with plastic and added to the orginal plumbing with plastic (not to mention adding a garbage disposer with the switch hooked up on the neturals)stray electrical currents have become a problem.
    This speaks to an earlier post about homeowners and non-quilifed people being permited to do there own work, because when they sell the property they leave a danger behind for the next guy and his family.
    Maybe we need to contact the termite inspectors and get thier lobbist working for elect/mech inspections at resale.
    let see what others think?
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