Electrics - earthing to .....the earth

[sploosh]

Just bought a STATIC caravan (don't worry, haven't even got a tow bar)

I was having look underneath and I can see loads of yellow and green wires running to a copper pipe which looks to have been stuck in the ground at some point but has been pulled out.

The van sits on top of a concrete slab so is isolated from the ground.

I plan to stick the pipe back in the ground (right?), but do I need to do anything else? Is this a bodge?

[snowy slopes]

Yep its a bodge, get a sparky to earth it properly! had a park home a few years ago, and ours was into the concrete!

[sploosh]

snowy slopes said:

Yep its a bodge, get a sparky to earth it properly! had a park home a few years ago, and ours was into the concrete!

It's just passed its tests, I'll have a look at the paperwork then query the park owner.

[esselte]

snowy slopes said:

Yep its a bodge, get a sparky to earth it properly! had a park home a few years ago, and ours was into the concrete!

Surely the rod just goes into the earth anyway and the concrete just secures it?

[Simpo Two]

sploosh said:

Just bought a STATIC caravan (don't worry, haven't even got a tow bar)

I was having look underneath and I can see loads of yellow and green wires running to a copper pipe

They help to remove the STATIC electricity

[Ozone]

Thats easy to earth a carvan, but how do you earth a submarine??

[maser_spyder]

I'm guessing earthing a caravan is the same as earthing a house.

That's to say, 60cm (ish) long copper rod which sticks in the ground, with the earth wires leading to it.

Pretty simple, pretty straightforward, 5 minute job for anybody with a lump hammer and a screwdriver.