New Pool Owner with Leak needs help!

[aylad]

Hi, and welcome to the forum!!

I can't answer your questions, but someone should be along shortly who can. In the meantime, if you want to send pics, you can send them to [email protected]. Include the URL of this thread so Ben will know where to attach them. Also, send the biggest pics you can--he can downsize them, but cannot upsize them if they're too small.

[waste]

Welcome to The Forum!

I've done a good bit of leak detection and will help as i can.

Using the bucket test:

1) check water loss between when the system is running for 24 hours and when it's off for 24 hours.

2) check the loss with the system off for 12 hours v.s. 12 hours off with all inlets and outlets plugged.


With both these, also compare the amount of water in your planters, while doing the above tests.

Let us know what's going on and we'll do our best to get yo all set.

[BioSam]

I noticed your in Maine... Know anyone is Southern California that likes to solve pool puzzles. unforunately with work , etc I don't have the time.... Let me see if I can get my pool to do the tests. Please let me know if you have other suggestions.

Thanks

Welcome to The Forum!

I've done a good bit of leak detection and will help as i can.

Using the bucket test:

1) check water loss between when the system is running for 24 hours and when it's off for 24 hours.

2) check the loss with the system off for 12 hours v.s. 12 hours off with all inlets and outlets plugged.


With both these, also compare the amount of water in your planters, while doing the above tests.

Let us know what's going on and we'll do our best to get yo all set.

[PoolDoc]

In my experience, both doing leak detection, and in hiring it done, it's icky-picky time consuming work that often has a less than definite outcome when performed by someone skilled who's physically at your pool -- trying to do it remotely via a forum is unlikely to succeed.

We can help walk people through a bucket test, to see whether they really have a leak or not. And, we can tell them likely places to look for troublesome suction leaks. But more than that? Probably not.