4 grounding schemes in the country

You know, because such happiness that today cottage - this is not a typical house 4 * 3 square meters, as it was permitted in the Soviet Union (you probably all remember these norushku), and a full rustic building with modern appliances - a fridge, a washing machine, and mikrovkoy etc.

Today, summer houses have evolved in sturdy reliable home with a large area and appliances. But the past is not only much easier to homework, but also requires a reliable grounding system in order to prevent fires.

It is good that the ground loop circuit is not so difficult for everything, and make it possible with their own hands.

The most common such grounding scheme - ingenuous design, consisting of three metal pins (Electrodes) buried in the ground, welded together and connected to the horizontal bar with electrical switchboards.

An important tip!
It is better not to install a grounding circuit in rocky and stony soils - are too high resistivity rocks. Print a grounding in traditional soil or clay.

4 grounding circuit in summer homes

1) The solid flush contour around the house. Usually it uses valves, hammered into the ground. Welded reinforcement rods are connected to the metal bus-bar.

2) Most popular earthing system - three or more embedded in the ground electrode of long interconnected steel strip. More details on the photo:

3) Ground one rod. Metal rod is recessed into the ground to a greater depth (deeper than 6 meters).

4) The foundation earthing. A rare type of ground. It is a closed loop of a welded wire mesh. It is placed under the bottom layer of waterproofing the basement or on the bottom row of valves. The downside is that such a ground may be to equip exclusively by pouring the foundation of the house.