What To Do If You Think Your Pool Is Leaking?

From https://www.swimmingpoolsteve.com/pag... this video talks about the important first steps you should take if you think your swimming pool is leaking. Step one, find out whether you are in fact leaking water or if you are just losing water to evaporation.

Place an open vessel like a plastic bucket on a ledge, step or stair in your pool so the top of the bucket is above the water line. Add a few rocks to the bucket so it does not float around. Now add pool water to the bucket until both the pool and the bucket have the exact same water level. Over 24 hours run your pump continuously and record water level in the pool after 24 hours. If pool and bucket are the same water level there is no leak in the pool. You are losing water to evaporation only. Consider using a solar blanket cover on the pool at night.

If you do note the water level in the pool is lower than the bucket after 24 hours, measure how much lower. 1/4", 1/2" for example. Now refill pool back to the original fill point you did the bucket test with last time. Now, this time turn the filtration equipment off for 24 hours. Note whether the pool still lost water. If the rate of water loss is different with the pump off, the leak relates to the plumbing system somewhere. If the leak loses the same amount whether the pump is running or now, then likely this is a structure leak unrelated to the plumbing system.

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