growler
Senior Member
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- Atlanta,GA
Yes, the plumber was very lucky. It is a symptom of a very serious problem.
Yes the plumber is lucky and he is not responsible for the fire "but" he should know that all metal water pipes in a house are required to be bonded . Should they become accidentially energized there should be a ground path. If they don't wish to bond the pipes they should inform the owner to get an electrician.
You see plumbers cut metal pipes all the time and replace sections with PVC and the only way to get those pipes properly bonded is then to jumper them out.
The guy that bootleged a neutral to a water pipe should be shot but he probably didn't have any idea what he was doing or he wouldn't have done it ( talk about creating a death trap ).
In many ways they are lucky they had a small fire and that someone didn't get electrocuted.
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