Recent content by Barry321

The landscape contractor came by today. The owner of the company also came by. He's been doing landscaping around pools for 40 years. First thing he told me after I described my situation was "I had the same problem with my pool I built in 2007. I was having minor shocks. I replaced my...

I just went outside again, (bond wire connected to lug on pump), and I stretched by spare bare cooper wire out and wrapped one end around one handrail of my pool ladder, and ran it over and wrapped it around one of my handrails (at bottom in picture above) and then over to the pool pump lug...

no. The bond wire that runs around the pool and runs out under the concrete deck, over to the pool pump about 15-20 feet away. It's only connected to the pool pump lug. The electrical stuff that is there to run the pool pump, etc isn't connected to the bond wire at all.

I disconnected the bond wire from the pool pump lug and measured from my railing to the pool water-and still get about 3 volts. Didn't seem to make much of a difference. I tend to think that suggests it's likely the bind wire that is damaged or disconnected somewhere. Does that sound about right?

The contractor I have coming tomorrow to look at the job does a lot of pool landscaping jobs in my area- really fancy landscaping work per their website- with pavers and various sorts of pool decks (along with just regular patios, etc). I am not going fancy, just a basic pool deck but probably...

That's the issue- I can't be sure the hand-rails at the end of the pool or the ladder is bonded. A bond wire was installed in the pool deck, but my guess is it's damaged or come unsecured from either the rails, the ladder on the other end, or the metal coping in between the two. There is no...

So replacing my pool deck and having a pool contractor replace the bond wire around the pool should do the trick? Electrical utility says everything on their end is fine. A commercial pool electrician that used his own meter on my pool is pretty sure it's an issue with the bond wire .

Update The commercial pool electrican that I had come by a few times advised me that he would ask a contact he knows about cutting my concrete near where my bond wire is located on one side of my pool (I have some photos from when my pool was installed) to possibly repair it but the contactor...

I'm back. No changes to my pool yet. For kicks, I went out today and took my voltage meter and checked out the water- one probe in water, one probe on handrail- measured around 0.024. - both rails measured about the same. That wasn't the case when I last measured it (above posts) at...

No. Going to have an electrician remove some of my concrete decking this winter and try to get things fixed.

I am going to try to do this today. I haven't had time yet. I was looking at some pictures from about 3-4 years ago last night and saw several where friends were standing on my steps and holding onto the handrail- just standing in the water talking (feet in water, hand or arm on handrail) and...

But I can see the wire running out from under the concrete pool deck and hooked it to my pump myself (along with connecting it to my new temporary bare copper wire I've been using to test everything). Are you saying maybe that's broken or damaged under the concrete or maybe not hooked up well...

I will try this Tuesday. How exactly do I do this?

I seem to remember some type of grid looking thing for the concrete but I wouldn't put money on it. I've thought about it so much I can't be sure of what I invented in my mind. In the picture I posted above, on the right side, it looks like the bonding wire runs over to the coping before it...