{"id":735,"date":"2025-12-12T16:35:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myclassicpool.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:35:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:35:52","slug":"fspa-wins-big-at-florida-building-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myclassicpool.com\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"FSPA Wins Big at Florida Building Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.poolmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fspa-single-wire-pool-bonding-system-continuity-testing-graphic-960x600.jpeg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"fspa-single-wire-pool-bonding-system-continuity-testing\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>BIG NEWS! The Florida Building Commission\u00a0Voted\u00a0Unanimously\u00a0to Keep Single Wire Swimming Pool Bonding\u00a0in the 2026 Florida Building Code.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sarasota, FL \u2014 December 10, 2025 \u2014 On Tuesday, December 9, the Florida Building Commission unanimously and unequivocally voted to keep the single wire bonding loop method of Bonding Swimming pools and spas in the Florida Building Code for the 2026 code and beyond. This is a big win for Florida residents and for the swimming pool and spa industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fspa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FSPA<\/a> and the Pool Industry Council undertook this initiative to prevent the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poolmagazine.com\/industry-news-news\/pool-industry-council-publishes-landmark-study-on-swimming-pool-equipotential-bonding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">single wire bonding method<\/a> from being eliminated in Florida, which would force Florida residents to rely on unnecessary and costly methods of swimming pool and spa bonding.<\/p>\n<p>A study funded by the Pool Industry Council and conducted by SunSmart Engineering this year demonstrated that #8 AWG single wire loop bonding was effective in mitigating voltage from a 120V ground fault event at a swimming pool and protecting bathers.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Bonding Study Results <a href=\"https:\/\/fspa.com\/blog\/pool-industry-council-publishes-landmark-study-on-pool-equipotential-bonding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poolmagazine.com\/news\/press-releases\/fspa-wins-big-at-florida-building-commission\/\">FSPA Wins Big at Florida Building Commission<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poolmagazine.com\">PoolMagazine.com &#8211; Get The Latest Pool News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>from Safety Archives &#8211; PoolMagazine.com &#8211; Get The Latest Pool News https:\/\/ift.tt\/49G3Ecs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIG NEWS! The Florida Building Commission\u00a0Voted\u00a0Unanimously\u00a0to Keep Single Wire Swimming Pool Bonding\u00a0in the 2026 Florida Building Code. Sarasota, FL \u2014 December 10, 2025 \u2014 On Tuesday, December 9, the Florida Building Commission unanimously and unequivocally voted to keep the single wire bonding loop method of Bonding Swimming pools and spas in the Florida Building Code &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myclassicpool.com\/?p=735\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FSPA Wins Big at Florida Building Commission&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-safety","tag-safety-archives-poolmagazine-com-get-the-latest-pool-news"],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myclassicpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myclassicpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myclassicpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myclassicpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myclassicpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myclassicpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/www.myclassicpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myclassicpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myclassicpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myclassicpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}