FIX A LEAK experiences

[ralph]

Am Considering using FIX A LEAK to correct a small 1/8"/day leak in excess of normal evaporation. Have there been any recent experiences on use of product.

[Poconos]

Welcome to the forum.
Don't think I ever saw it mentioned on this forum but can't be sure. I guess I'm skeptical how 1 quart of anything diluted in 20,000 gallons will do anything. Anyone have any comments and/or experience?
Al

[SL Dan]

While I was away I got a call that my pool was leaking. My neighbor who lives on the hillside below me found water trickling into a puddle next to his house. We shut down the system and I came home early. By the time I got back all was dry. The leak didn't return until we started the system back up.

We are in the middle of using Fix-A-Leak now. We don't know for sure where the leak is occurring. There's no air visible in the return, so logically we don't think its in the suction line, but it even so, just by looking it appears that the leak is probably at the bottom of the 50-year-old in-ground skimmer. Bubbles could be being filtered out at the pump if its a small leak. We're in the "hoping-it-works" phase, having run the system for about 2 and a half days and have now shut it off to let the Fix-A-Leak set.

If it doesn't work I'll be trying to figure out a budget way to bypass the old skimmer.

[gwrace1]

I tried it this year for a leak I could not find. I would not waste my money on it. Made no difference.

[SL Dan]

So far not working here either.

[ralph]

Thanks folks. I too have been in the hope it works school, but the more I find out the more skeptical I get. Our summer has been high temp and high humidity with evaporation rates close to 1/2"/day. I guess that the small amount I'm having may well be just evaporation or measuring error.
ralph

[aylad]

I don't think 1/2" daily is excessive, in the kind of heat we're having this summer. Have you tried the bucket test? Put some of the pool water in a bucket, set it on the step, mark the levels of water in the pool and in the bucket, then check again the next day--if the pool level dropped further than the level in the bucket, then it's not evaporation...

[ralph]

Thanks Janet- I did do the bucket test early on and the results were identical. That's my dilemma. I think I'll just go with the loss until (or if) it gets larger.
thanks to all for your posts.
Ralph