bonding

TFP Friends, Installing a new Hayward PowerFlow Matrix 1.5 hp for my above ground pool. All good with one exception, I seem to have a persistent leak around the gasket where the bonding wire runs from the strainer basket to the bonding lug. I've tried grease and plumber tape, but I'm just not...

Hello all! Long time lurker - we bought a house with a pool in 2019 - pool was built in the early 90s, not sure by whom or to what standard. In any case, the pump gave out and I had to have a new one installed this month. The pool installer noted that he couldn’t find the bonding wire near the...

Hello first time forum user and first time pool owner. I want to bond my pool and I was going to purchase a bond plate on Amazon, but noticed my pool kit came with this pipe and adapter. My installer barely spoke English so I couldn't get answers from him. All he told me is I can bond to the...

I'm hoping someone can help me problem solve a bonding issue I have. My water is shocking us as we enter/exit the pool to/from wet concrete or if we touch handrail. I have attached a 8 gauge copper wire to where the bonding metal makes contact with the water and inserted the other end into the...

Hi. I’ve been getting tons of helpful info here, but now it’s time to ask my own questions. Building inground polymer wall pool w/ vinyl liner. Want to make sure light and niche are properly hooked up. Seems electricians even become confused about code on this. Anyway, I have Hayward plastic...

Just over a week ago, my family was swimming in the pool for about an hour. My wife got out near the therapy jets and sat on the edge with legs hanging in the pool. She immediately said “ouch, I feel like I’m getting stung.” She got her legs out and stuck her hand in and the same sensation...

Hi. we are replastering our pool and re-doing/pouring a new deck. Today the electrician was here and I am a little skeptical about the bonding; he attached a #8 bare copper wire to the rebars that extend out from the bond beam (every other 2 re-bars for a total of 6). BUT we only had these...

I have a recently built gunite pool with raised spa. The spa has 2 spillovers that are currently tiled inside with no lip. The spillway water has a nice arc, but also dribbles and saturates the stone face of the spa. Now I’d like to buy and install copper spillway scuppers to better sheet the...

Hello TFP, I'm a pool builder and I'm trying to troubleshoot a bonding issue and while researching the problem I found your forum. The pool I installed is fiberglass and has about 17,000 gallons of water, but my customer setup all the electrical because he is an electrician. Once the pool was...

Hello! Seeking some perspective and guidance on how to approach the bonding of a 8ft circular steel stock tank pool. The challenge is the tank sits atop an existing concrete patio with a poured concrete retaining wall on one side. (see picture for reference). This prevents me from burying the...

Hey Everyone, Not sure if this question is appropriate on this site and let me know and I will delete it. I have installed the electrical for above-ground pools many times. Is the scope of work similar to hot tubs such as equipotential grounding and bonding?

So we bought our house in the winter and all of the pool equipment was uninstalled and put inside. When we took it out this spring, we realized there was no electricity running to the pool at all. We didn't think anything of it and just grabbed an extension cord because that has to be what the...

Hello all! First time poster, recent lurker. I appreciate all of the topics and responses from this website. Pool ownership is definitely intimidating and this site has been very helpful in answering my questions. I am faced with a question about bonding that hopefully someone can help me...

I have a 20x40 inground vinyl pool. Pool installer was very experienced, put in about 8 years ago. The pool was bonded, I remember seeing the green wire around it before concrete and concrete rebar was wired together as well. He showed me some ohms tests showing ground to pump bolt was...

Hi Everyone, I was having a conversation with an associate of mine who is an electrician and the topic was bonding an above-ground pool. The common way I'm used to seeing done is to use a bonding plate that is installed in the skimmer. It involved drilling a 3/16" hole on the side and inserting...

I have a 30 x15 oval above ground pool with buttresses. I am digging the trench for the bonding but am confused in regards to buttresses. Bonding calls for the #8 bare copper wire to be 18”-24” from the pool wall all the way around the pool. The buttresses extend further than that from the...

Hi all, After adding solar and keeping our pool warmer this summer, I'm more seriously considering adding a SWG as the chlorine demand is getting more intense. The general opinion here at TFP seems to be in favor of SWGs, and that the risk of corrosion is low. Many seemingly informed sites...

Hello all, I have found a ton of helpful information on this form, so thank you to all posters in advance! I am doing the bonding of the pool myself and understand the requirements and did a lot of research to understand what bonding is exactly (but still nowhere near an expert, so this...

Omg!. I looked up and researched making a lap pool for 2 years. I built one just like the plans I purchased off internet. I laid a footing w rebar, poured concrete, laid first row blocks, drilled hole in every other block hole, cement angored a vertical rebar to the hole and filled...

Hello all. This year I am adding a heat pump to my pool and am basically redoing all the plumbing and electrical for my pool. Currently I have no bonding between any component and I would very much like to get this up to code. I have been reading extensively about pool bonding and think...

Electrical questions: I recently had a leaking pool light niche replaced. The shell around the light was replaced with a metal housing and a new yellow jacket 3 wire electrical with a separate bonding cable pulled into the junction box. The old wiring had no bond up at the junction, but was and...

Hi--Noob here. What's the easiest/cheapest way to bond an already-installed slide (Interfab Wild Ride) to our pool? Pool and slide was installed by previous owner in 2009 and is an in-ground fiberglass shell. Slide mounts via anchor bolts into the concrete--the metal slide legs slide over the...

I have a fairly new pool, this will be our 3rd year with it. I am trying to add a Hayward Aqua-trol and I am stumped at this bonding loop. From what I can tell we should already have one for our pool to pump? However, we do not and that is how the professional installed it. So my question is do...