Getting shock from new balcony

[Captain]

So we’ve had a new balcony fitted to one of our rental properties, it has glass windows around the edge with composite flooring but we keep getting shocked from either the glass, the wall or each other when moving around.

What’s the best way to tackle this? We’ve spoke to the installers who are not sure either on the best way to fix the issue?

Cheers

 

[200sols]

Unplug it.

 

[radderfire]

Ask yourself "how is a charge being built up?"

For example, if you were wearing a fleece and moving about, this might build up static electricity, and then when you touch a conducting part of your balcony (must be metal somewhere?), the static will dissipate to it, producing a shock sensation.

 

[Rob_B]

Composite can do that. Ground everything?

 

[labbby]

There really is only one fix for this and that is to wear full body rubber suits.

I do have a website you can order them from but I'm not sure I'd be allowed to link it.

 

[m4rmite]

There really is only one fix for this and that is to wear full body rubber suits.

I do have a website you can order them from but I'm not sure I'd be allowed to link it.

Do they do masks as well

 

[Ch3m1c4L]

permanently wire yourself to your earth, basically a big long wire going to a plug but only have the earth connected.

 

[arknor]

walk around barefoot then the static always has somewhere to go

 

[Captain]

Thanks for all the suggestions so far, as helpful as ever

 

[whitecrook]

Use a banana

 

[hornetstinger]

Get a cable that is 2 billion light years long, wire it directly to the supermassive black hole at 3C303 to your balcony, then step onto your balcony. You won't feel the static shocks anymore.

 

[SpellowHouse]

So we’ve had a new balcony fitted to one of our rental properties, it has glass windows around the edge with composite flooring but we keep getting shocked from either the glass, the wall or each other when moving around.

What’s the best way to tackle this? We’ve spoke to the installers who are not sure either on the best way to fix the issue?

Cheers

I used to work in a place were static was a constant problem.

It's caused by the flooring. You are shuffling about and friction with the floor transfers charge to you. This is normal. But what is not normal is that the flooring is non-conductive, so the charge is not conducting back to the floor, it's just building up.

You can buy anti-static liquids for the floor. They are quite expensive though and only last a limited time. Weigh that up against the cost of just replacing the floor with something that isn't "composite".

 

[LuckyBenski]

Worst "I'm a landlord" thread ever.

I usually find this happens when I buy some new shoes, and as I touch TVs and cables all day at work I have to stop wearing that particular pair of shoes.

 

[DHR]

So we’ve had a new balcony fitted to one of our rental properties, it has glass windows around the edge with composite flooring but we keep getting shocked from either the glass, the wall or each other when moving around.

What’s the best way to tackle this? We’ve spoke to the installers who are not sure either on the best way to fix the issue?

Cheers

I had this in an office, it'd build up and you'd get a visible jolt once or twice a day.

Amazingly a cheap humidifier sorted it, I laughed when someone suggested it but it did the trick!

 

[Nemiyen]

I had this in an office, it'd build up and you'd get a visible jolt once or twice a day.

Amazingly a cheap humidifier sorted it, I laughed when someone suggested it but it did the trick!

So you want him to humidify the entire world to keep the balcony from shocking them?

 

[DHR]

So you want him to humidify the entire world to keep the balcony from shocking them?

Or tolerate it, as I say, worked in our work office