Me and my wife just bought a house. Our main seller was the land (rural area) and the pool. Only 2 weeks in, my wife said the water hurt her and thought it was the chemicals for the pool. Upon closer inspection, it was very clearly a small electrical charge.
I’ve read a lot on this forum about pool bonding and know this is what our issue is, what I’m still not sure about is how exactly to solve this. I know that we need to fix 2 things. 1. Stray current source. 2. Fix the pool bond.
We had an engineer from the local power company come out and test the water initially at around 4.5 volts. They tried a few things and eventually found out that the new cable line that we had run to the house had run their ground line to the companies main ground for the house. They disconnected that ground and the stray voltage went from 4.7 to .7, where we couldn’t feel it anymore. Tonight there was a rainstorm, and I, in my omniscient, decided to reach into the pool water and got s huge shock up my entire arm and a slight burn to my hand.
So my question is, how else can we identify stray currents and their source? And two, how do we fix the bonding issue? We were going to try to run 4-5 bonding rods around the pool and run copper wire connecting them to the pool, water, and attachments as a type of bandaid. And maybe just one ground rod run to a copper metal sheet in the skimmer in the meantime. Would this even work in a bond/ground combo as a quick fix? I’m so lost as to how to solve this issue. The house was built in 1993, and the pool at the same time, plus in a rural area. I can’t imagine the pool is up to current codes as far as bonding goes.
I’ve read a lot on this forum about pool bonding and know this is what our issue is, what I’m still not sure about is how exactly to solve this. I know that we need to fix 2 things. 1. Stray current source. 2. Fix the pool bond.
We had an engineer from the local power company come out and test the water initially at around 4.5 volts. They tried a few things and eventually found out that the new cable line that we had run to the house had run their ground line to the companies main ground for the house. They disconnected that ground and the stray voltage went from 4.7 to .7, where we couldn’t feel it anymore. Tonight there was a rainstorm, and I, in my omniscient, decided to reach into the pool water and got s huge shock up my entire arm and a slight burn to my hand.
So my question is, how else can we identify stray currents and their source? And two, how do we fix the bonding issue? We were going to try to run 4-5 bonding rods around the pool and run copper wire connecting them to the pool, water, and attachments as a type of bandaid. And maybe just one ground rod run to a copper metal sheet in the skimmer in the meantime. Would this even work in a bond/ground combo as a quick fix? I’m so lost as to how to solve this issue. The house was built in 1993, and the pool at the same time, plus in a rural area. I can’t imagine the pool is up to current codes as far as bonding goes.