b2001
02-24-2008, 09:57 AM
I discussed this in a previous thread, but most of the discussion has been about pool covers, so I am breaking this off into a separate thread. My situation:
My next problem is I recently noticed that my water level had gone significantly down since covered in October. There is about a foot of water in the shallow end of my pool. There has been very little rain this winter. We’re anticipating a lot of rain this weekend – I decided to remove the cover hurriedly last night to avoid a buildup of water on the cover, with the added weight that would cause the sides to collapse in absence to the support of water. I wasn’t able to do my usual thorough cleaning and removal of the leaves, and right now the edges of the cover are over the side of the pool at one end with the bottom of the cover too heavy to raise out because of the collection of debris that was on top of it and now in it. That’s another matter that I’ll figure out how to tackle. At least the rain is going into the pool and not collecting on top of the cover.
My issue is that obviously I have a leak. It seems to be going down about an inch every few days or so. At this point, the water level seems to keep going down – it seems likely that the leak is on the bottom of the pool somewhere. I had a incident with a lot of glass getting into the pool this summer, felt like I pretty much got all of it out. I didn’t seem to have an issue with the pool level going down excessively during the summer after this incident, but maybe that was not the case. The water is pretty dirty at this point. I’m not sure I have any choice but to let it continue to go down to see where it will stop. It seems like I won’t be able to do anything until I can get into the pool in the spring. The dirty-ness of the water would seem to impede locating a leak.
Any suggestions on how I can locate this leak? The liner seems to be in pretty good shape otherwise – although I realize there’s the possibility that I might have to replace it.
The water level was seemed to start at about 14" above the bottom at the shallow end when I first noticed an issue to about 8" or so when I got the cover off. I have a hard time believeing that all of this water loss is due to evaporation - this has never occurred over the winter before.
I did a lot of looking yesterday and did not see anything obvious yet. I'm not at the point of trying food coloring tests yet.
I added 2" inches of water yesterday from about 2 to 4 pm. There seems to be no water loss overnight - I checked it this morning at 8 am. It would seem if the leak is on the bottom I would have seen some loss overnight. I don't have a feel for evaporation loss at this point yet. My thoughts are to try to narrow down at what level the water is at - where the level is more stable - by adding a couple of inches every few days and observing loss.
At some point I'm going to do an inspection of the liner above the water level more closely, but I'll need a pair of rubber wader boots first!
My next problem is I recently noticed that my water level had gone significantly down since covered in October. There is about a foot of water in the shallow end of my pool. There has been very little rain this winter. We’re anticipating a lot of rain this weekend – I decided to remove the cover hurriedly last night to avoid a buildup of water on the cover, with the added weight that would cause the sides to collapse in absence to the support of water. I wasn’t able to do my usual thorough cleaning and removal of the leaves, and right now the edges of the cover are over the side of the pool at one end with the bottom of the cover too heavy to raise out because of the collection of debris that was on top of it and now in it. That’s another matter that I’ll figure out how to tackle. At least the rain is going into the pool and not collecting on top of the cover.
My issue is that obviously I have a leak. It seems to be going down about an inch every few days or so. At this point, the water level seems to keep going down – it seems likely that the leak is on the bottom of the pool somewhere. I had a incident with a lot of glass getting into the pool this summer, felt like I pretty much got all of it out. I didn’t seem to have an issue with the pool level going down excessively during the summer after this incident, but maybe that was not the case. The water is pretty dirty at this point. I’m not sure I have any choice but to let it continue to go down to see where it will stop. It seems like I won’t be able to do anything until I can get into the pool in the spring. The dirty-ness of the water would seem to impede locating a leak.
Any suggestions on how I can locate this leak? The liner seems to be in pretty good shape otherwise – although I realize there’s the possibility that I might have to replace it.
The water level was seemed to start at about 14" above the bottom at the shallow end when I first noticed an issue to about 8" or so when I got the cover off. I have a hard time believeing that all of this water loss is due to evaporation - this has never occurred over the winter before.
I did a lot of looking yesterday and did not see anything obvious yet. I'm not at the point of trying food coloring tests yet.
I added 2" inches of water yesterday from about 2 to 4 pm. There seems to be no water loss overnight - I checked it this morning at 8 am. It would seem if the leak is on the bottom I would have seen some loss overnight. I don't have a feel for evaporation loss at this point yet. My thoughts are to try to narrow down at what level the water is at - where the level is more stable - by adding a couple of inches every few days and observing loss.
At some point I'm going to do an inspection of the liner above the water level more closely, but I'll need a pair of rubber wader boots first!