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- East Baton Rouge Parish LA
Well I'm building my own gunite pool and that was the first mistake. There are no siginificant inspections where I'm building.
After the rebar cage was completed I took a #8 bare copper wire and ran it from the equipment subgrade to the cage, down in the cage on the shallow end, along the cage bottom to the deep end and back up and out of the cage. However I did not have the right connectors. So I used a pipe clamp type connector with an eye and screw on top. However, I cut the eye and screw off and only used the clamp portion to clamp the wire to the rebar cage. Well being 3/8" rebar the clamp was too large so I turned the bottom side of the clamp upside down. The wire it clamped hard to the rebar. There are 4 of these clamps along the rebar cage. I also took a few pieces of the 8 copper and wrapped around the rebar and wire and twisted those together.
My pool subcontractor also has 4' rebar pieces that are stainless steel tie wired to the cage and extend out of the bond beam to connect the sidewalks. I will also be placing a #8 wire around the pool w/ clamps on several of those rebar stubs. That wire will be tied to the first bond wire that heads to the equipment subgrade with a split nut.
So, will electrolysis at the copper to rebar connection be a problem with the bond wire that is encased in the gunite pool shell?
After the rebar cage was completed I took a #8 bare copper wire and ran it from the equipment subgrade to the cage, down in the cage on the shallow end, along the cage bottom to the deep end and back up and out of the cage. However I did not have the right connectors. So I used a pipe clamp type connector with an eye and screw on top. However, I cut the eye and screw off and only used the clamp portion to clamp the wire to the rebar cage. Well being 3/8" rebar the clamp was too large so I turned the bottom side of the clamp upside down. The wire it clamped hard to the rebar. There are 4 of these clamps along the rebar cage. I also took a few pieces of the 8 copper and wrapped around the rebar and wire and twisted those together.
My pool subcontractor also has 4' rebar pieces that are stainless steel tie wired to the cage and extend out of the bond beam to connect the sidewalks. I will also be placing a #8 wire around the pool w/ clamps on several of those rebar stubs. That wire will be tied to the first bond wire that heads to the equipment subgrade with a split nut.
So, will electrolysis at the copper to rebar connection be a problem with the bond wire that is encased in the gunite pool shell?
