Pool Electrical for a Feature-Rich Pool in Bristow, VA
Some pools are a pump and a light. This Bristow pool had a lot more to power - laminar jets, a spa blower, a heater, four lights, and salt chlorination - all run through one automation panel and tucked neatly along the side of the house.
A pool with a lot to power
Most of the work on a pool like this is in the count. Four pool lights, three laminar jets, a spa blower, a heater, the pump, and a salt chlorinator - each one needs its own circuit and its own control. We ran them all through a Jandy AquaLink automation panel and labeled every breaker and relay, so a year from now it is obvious what runs what.
From that one panel the owners run the whole pool: pump, heater, lights, jets, and the blower.
Tucked along the side of the house
There was no separate pad out in the yard - everything sits in the side yard against the house, so it had to be clean. We ran 1/2-inch conduit from the main panel in the garage out through the wall and along the underside of the siding to the Jandy panel, then flex conduit from there to the two transformers, the heater, the pump, and the blower. The transformers step the power down for the low-voltage lights and the laminar jets.
Every run, and the bond
Four lights and three jet locations add up to a lot of conduit, and it all had to come back to the equipment - through plumbing elbows and around the pool. We pulled a 10-gauge feed from the main panel to the pool panel, 12-gauge to the equipment, and ran an 8-gauge bond wire around the pool and through every piece of metal - the equipotential bond that NEC 680 requires. A 6-20 receptacle went on the corner of the deck, fed from underneath it, so there is power right at the pool.
Scope at a glance
- ✓Feed run from the garage main panel along the house to a Jandy pool panel
- ✓10 AWG feed to the pool panel; 12 AWG to the equipment
- ✓Jandy AquaLink automation with every circuit labeled
- ✓Two transformers for the low-voltage pool lights and laminar jets
- ✓Four pool lights fished and terminated
- ✓Three laminar jet locations wired
- ✓Pool heater, pump, and spa blower wired
- ✓Salt chlorinator and two Jandy valve actuators (JVAs)
- ✓8 AWG equipotential bonding around the pool and through the equipment (NEC 680)
- ✓6-20 receptacle mounted on the deck
Who wired it
This pool was wired by Anson Electrical & Remodeling, a family-owned company that has worked in Northern Virginia for 20+ years, with our shop just up the road in Manassas. Pool work is squarely electrical, and the team works to the standard our founder set as a Virginia Master Electrician (License #2705178102) - the credential that matters most for getting bonding and GFCI right around water.
The job ran the way all of ours do: a consultation, then a written proposal with scope, timeline, and cost up front, with permits pulled by us where the work required them and a final walkthrough at the end. A named project manager ran it, and the work was done by our own licensed in-house team, not anonymous subcontractors carrying the Anson name.
We hold a 5.0 rating on Google, and a good share of our work, big or small, comes from repeat customers, their neighbors, and the pool builders who bring us in to handle the electrical.
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