Fiberglass pool bonding requirements

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Hi,

New here and this is my first post, lots of good info and knowledgeable people here. I am beginning installation on a medium sized fiberglass pool at a new construction home in VA in a few weeks. I am the builder/ developer at this site and this home will actually be my home, reason for the pool lol. Ive done the research and planning and am familiar with building practices, processes, utilities, etc, although my first pool.

Pool is approximately 11.5 x 22.5, will be travertine paver patio and coping. Going to install a concrete collar to lock in perimeter of pool and give a good base for coping to stick to. Have the water bonding kit coming with pool equipment and plan to run #8 copper around pool and to equipment. My question is do I need to tie the bond wire to rebar in the concrete collar as well, if so, 4 points around pool?

I searched around for some clear direction on this but came up short. Collar does not need to be as far out as the bond wire. Any code or best practice input would be appreciated, thanks.
 
rmb212 said:
My question is do I need to tie the bond wire to rebar in the concrete collar as well, if so, 4 points around pool?
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Welcome to TFP! :wave: I'm afraid I'm not best suited to answer that question, but perhaps @JohnT or @ajw22 might know. Stick around and I'm sure one of our team will have a good answer for you. Good luck on the install.

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Perimeter bonding needs to cover 3 feet from the pool water. That can be in the collar or deck or both..
 
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Thanks for the info

concrete collar will be 12". My understanding was the bond wire needed to be 18"- 24" from pool wall, no "grid" required anymore. I guess it wouldn't hurt anything to just connect it.
 
18"-24" is the correct distance, and that wire does need to be connected to the equipment, water bond, railings, rebar, etc. To my knowledge a "grid" as in an arrangement of squares wasn't ever a requirement, the setup was just often referred to as a bonding grid. I may be mistaken, but as far as I know, it's only ever been the loop of wire just connected to the rebar reinforcement grid.
 
vtpools said:
18"-24" is the correct distance, and that wire does need to be connected to the equipment, water bond, railings, rebar, etc. To my knowledge a "grid" as in an arrangement of squares wasn't ever a requirement, the setup was just often referred to as a bonding grid. I may be mistaken, but as far as I know, it's only ever been the loop of wire just connected to the rebar reinforcement grid.
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I'm looking at the same here soon. Got a River Pools C40 going in, with paver coping and decking going down. Was thinking an 8 AWG loop bare loop connected to the permacast skimmer plug. Kinda wondering about connecting the pump motor though, it'll be about 30 couple feet away from the pool wall...The loop and the connection to the motor, does the bare wire just lay on the ground or is it staked in any fashion?
 
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Was thinking an 8 AWG loop bare loop connected to the permacast skimmer plug. Kinda wondering about connecting the pump motor though, it'll be about 30 couple feet away from the pool wall...The loop and the connection to the motor, does the bare wire just lay on the ground or is it staked in any fashion?
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The copper bonding wire can be on the ground surface or buried within 4 to 6 inches of the surface.

Putting a wire loop around the pool without connecting it to the pool equipment would accomplish nothing.

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ajw22 said:
Putting a wire loop around the pool without connecting it to the pool equipment would accomplish nothing.

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Seemed obvious, but recalled a distance exception in there. After reading more closely it obviously applied to another item. Boy, reading some of these codes they sure could benefit from formatting.
 
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