On 26 March 2018 at 05:29, Chris Albertson <[email protected]> wrote:

> At some point where the power comes into your building the
> grounded wire and the cold water pipe should be connected together.
> Also at the same location where should be a ground rod or a connection
> to metal that was embedded in a concrete foundation for this purpose.

Not always. I would say it is probably not a good idea to install such
a link if it is missing.
There are various standards for the connection of the ground wire (and
for the source of the neutral, sometimes that is explicitly linked to
Gnd inside the property)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthing_system#IEC_terminology
There are at least 5 ways to do it, TN-S, TN-C, TN-C-S, TT and IT.

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