How to make sure that your pool is losing water due to evaporation or a leak?
Once you finish the bucket test, you’ll be able to determine how many gallons you must be losing above a 24 hour period, an hour, and even per minute.
Follow the procedure as shown in the video below
1. Take a bucket or a 5 gallon container and fill it roughly 2/3rds with pool water.
2. Place the bucket on the second step in your pool so that the bucket is partially submerged in the pool.
By doing this both bodies of water are at the same temperature and they are subject to the same speed of loss.
3. Now carefully mark the water level on the outside of the bucket using a felt tipped marker or a piece of tape, do the same for the water level on the inside of the bucket.
4. Allow at least 24 hours and check the water level’s relative to the marks you made earlier.
5. If the water level is still at the mark both inside and out or the level has dropped the same distance then you do not have a leak, but if the water level has dropped more on the outside of the bucket than the inside you have a pool leak!
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WHAT TO CHECK FOR WHEN YOU SUSPECT YOUR POOL IS LEAKING
•Cracks in the fiber glass stairs or gunite pool wall•Cracking, lifting or sinking pool deck
•Waterlogged/moist lawn around the pool deck
•Frequently adding water to the pool (multiple times a week)
•Constantly adding salt (sal chlorination systems)
•Air bubbles coming out at the return jets
•Trouble priming the pool pump
•Floating vinyl liner
BUCKET TEST
If you notice any of the symptoms from the list above then conducting a Bucket Test can provide further verification that a pool leak is present. The video below will show how to properly execute the Bucket Test. For further information or to request Leak Detection services please call or send us an inquiry online.
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