Electrical Grounding and Bonding in Wesley Chapel, FL
Gas Pipe, Water Line, and Pool Bonds Tied to the Home's Grounding|Licensed & Insured, EC13011268
Kennedy Electric restores the bonds that tie a Wesley Chapel home's metal piping to its grounding, wherever a later job left one loose or missing, or none was ever fitted. In a house heated by gas, that includes the gas piping, whose bond can come through a grounded appliance circuit or a clamp, and every other metal system on the lot is traced back to the same grounding.
Say whether the house is heated by gas.
Call (352) 251-2795, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., or send a request online. Calls after hours are returned the next business day.
At a glance
Metal to Bond in a Wesley Chapel House
Nearly one in five occupied homes in Wesley Chapel heat with gas, by census estimates, most of them from a utility main and a few hundred from bottled or tank gas. Whichever way the gas arrives, the house has metal gas piping inside it, and the electrical code expects that piping to be bonded to the home's grounding.
Summer lightning reaches Pasco on most days of the season, which the county's hazard mitigation plan ties to daily heating and moisture in the air. A nearby strike can briefly raise the voltage on a line, a pipe, or the ground. Bonding isn't lightning protection, and it promises nothing about a strike. It keeps the home's metal piping at the voltage of its grounding.
Close to 20,000 of the town's homes date from 2000 onward, again by estimate. In houses that young, the water lines inside can be plastic, which carries no current, and that can leave the gas piping and any pool as the metal the bonding has to reach.
How it runs
What to Gather for a Bonding Check
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Every metal line that enters the house
Note where the gas comes in, from a meter on an outside wall or a tank in the yard, and where the water main enters. Add the pool if the lot has one, and any outdoor kitchen or fire feature with a gas line of its own.
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Photos at the water heater and the furnace
Pipes near these appliances can carry a bonding clamp, or show where one used to sit. Those photos show what piping the house has, and one of the panel with its door swung open adds the grounding side.
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Which fixes belong to another trade
Repairing or replacing gas pipe is a gas contractor's work, and rerouting water lines is a plumber's. The clamp, the bonding wire, and its connection back to the grounding are the electrical side, and that's the part we correct.
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A permit for new grounding conductors
Pasco's under-$7,500 exemption for single-family homes names electrical work as an exception, so it still takes a permit. That covers the electrical side of a correction, such as a new grounding conductor or a change at the service, and the county inspects it.
What we cover
Bonding Points Around the House
Gas piping and how it's bonded
Inside a gas-heated house, metal pipe runs from where the gas enters to the furnace, the water heater, and any gas range or dryer. Rigid gas pipe counts as bonded under Florida's fuel gas code where it feeds an appliance on a grounded circuit, so the check confirms that circuit's grounding holds. Where a clamp is fitted, usually on a rigid section near the entry point, it and its copper wire back to the grounding are checked as well.
The water line and the water heater jumper
Copper or other metal pipe still turns up around the water heater or in a manifold, and each metal section is checked for whether it needs a bond. On metal supply pipe, a jumper is often fitted across the water heater so the bond carries past its fittings.
The pool's bonding grid
The pool's bonding grid ties the steel in the shell, the deck around the water, the light niches, and the pump and heater on the pad together, so all of it sits at one voltage. A rebuilt deck, a pad moved for a new heater, or a light changed out can leave a bond wire cut or unattached at that spot.
Grounding at the meter wall
Every bond above ties into the home's grounding, which meets the earth at the service. Outside at the meter wall, a grounding wire leads down to a rod, and in many newer houses it can also connect to steel in the concrete footing. A clamp, rod, or wire found damaged there is corrected along with the bonds.
Pricing
Rates for Grounding Visits and Bonding Fixes
Repair and troubleshooting visits are billed by the hour from arrival: $100 residential, $150 commercial, one-hour minimum, then half-hour increments, plus materials. No trip charge and no service fee. No hidden fees: the 3.5% surcharge on card and ACH payments is listed in our terms.
Finding a missing or broken bond is troubleshooting, so the hourly terms above apply to a grounding visit.
Custom homes and large or multi-phase projects are estimated as soon as we can, or on the timeline your project sets.
We don't do upfront pricing. No job has a standard price with us: each one is tailored to the property and the work you've asked for, and priced once we've seen it.
We offer free estimates on installs, upgrades, and replacements in our service area. Estimates aren't free when the job needs troubleshooting or testing to price, falls after hours or outside our service area, needs several meetings to gather information, or is new construction or a custom remodel with multi-party walk-throughs. For most jobs, estimates arrive by email by the end of the next business day, and quotes are good for 30 days.
Our warranty
05If something we installed fails because of our workmanship within 30 days of completion, we waive the hourly labor to put it right. Materials Kennedy Electric purchases for your job carry the manufacturer's one-year warranty. To replace defective materials we supplied, or materials damaged by storm, flood, fire, or other acts of God, we charge a reduced warranty labor rate of $50 an hour residential and $75 an hour commercial. The warranty does not cover materials not purchased by Kennedy Electric, work performed by the customer, or materials the customer purchased or damaged. Our warranty terms are printed on the estimate, the invoice, and the receipt, and the product boxes stay with you so you can register each product with its manufacturer.
Our Wesley Chapel outdoor kitchen has a gas grill piped from the house. Does that line need a bond of its own?
We're replacing the gas water heater in our Wesley Chapel house with an electric one. What happens to the bonding?
Our propane supplier swapped the tank in our Wesley Chapel yard. Does the bonding need to be redone?
If a neutral wire touches a ground wire somewhere in the house, will a breaker trip?
We're finishing the garage walls in our Wesley Chapel house. Can the bonding clamp go behind the drywall?
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