Home Improvement Asked by Keith A Thomas on June 20, 2021
I recently bought a Bestway 15′ x 48" above ground "flexible assembly" pool with polyester-type material and PVC-type vertical frame. In Florida,a permit is required for all pools with depth over 42". The permit includes the requirement to install equipotential bonding to the pool. The pool comes with a simple filter pump which does not facilitate bonding and no skimmer basket is provided with the product. However, I bought a portable skimmer for the pool but the skimmer is of plastic and must be placed inside the pool wall. I have done an enormous amount of research on the Internet to find products that could work with this type of pool to meet the bonding procedure, without much success. Hope you can help. Thanks!
The pump has nothing to do with the equipotential bonding requirement. So looking at the pump to help you is dead-end.
Your bonding effort should ignore the pump altogether.
Equipotential bonding is just another phrase for the normal “grounding electrodes” that your house already has. The requirement is that the pool have a separate set of grounding electrodes all its own, and those attach to the house’s grounding electrode system.
So that goes back to your main panel, or if you have a pool subpanel that is connected 4-wire (separate neutral and ground) to the main panel, then it goes there.
The purpose is to keep the earth around your pool from floating at a voltage above safety ground, as this would break/defeat the GFCI devices that protect your family.
Answered by Harper - Reinstate Monica on June 20, 2021
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