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Re: Unfloating the liner for leak check.
Thanks for sharing your experience with this. You can send pics to poolforum AT gmail DOT com and reference the URL of this thread so they can be posted in the right place.
Re: Unfloating the liner for leak check.
Yeah ... its leaking.
48 hours later, no one using the pool, cover in place the whole time ... water down 3/4" and liner floating around the bottom corners and wrinkling at the top again.
Pool guy gave me the number of the "diving dude" ... who says he will find and fix all the leaks using a magnified diving mask and dye for $200.
Part of me says "pay the man", whilst the engineer me says "you haven't even tried it yourself yet ... why are you giving up so easily?"
~18,000g; 16' x 32' IG; Vinyl; 1HP x 36sq-ft Hayward DE; Solar Attic PCS2 Heat; G25 Nature2; New Water 400; Fiber Stars 8-Color Perimeter and Wall; Clear Cover
Re: Unfloating the liner for leak check.
Went snorkeling tonight.
Found a 3/8" hole about 2" under the water line, 1/8" hole about 1.5"is under the waterline and 1/8"hole hole just above the water lime so far.
Is that enough to do what I posted above?
I still have to check the floor and dye around the 4 light ports and the 3 water jets and skimmer and bottom drain.
~18,000g; 16' x 32' IG; Vinyl; 1HP x 36sq-ft Hayward DE; Solar Attic PCS2 Heat; G25 Nature2; New Water 400; Fiber Stars 8-Color Perimeter and Wall; Clear Cover
Re: Unfloating the liner for leak check.
That loss sounds about right for those holes. However, you should check the entire liner thoroughly.
How old is your liner?
10,000 gallon IG vinyl liner pool, BBB user, salt added to 2300 ppm (because it makes the water feel great!), new liner/new water on 6/23/11, algae-free since 2006 (at least that's as far back as I remember). 1HP Hayward 2-SPEED CONVERTED Superpump, Hayward sand filter, PS234 test kit.
Goal: To remain completely algae-free for the life of this new liner!
Life lesson: It is what it is.
12'x24' oval 9K gal IG pool; bleach; Hayward 244T sand filter; Hayward Super pump, 1 HP, 2-speed pump; 24hrs on low speedhrs; PS234; utility water; summer: ; winter: ; android phone; PF:13
Re: Unfloating the liner for leak check.
I put electrical tape over the holes last night and left the liner nice and tight ... its floating again this morning ... I'll have to keep looking.
Its a June-2001 pool/liner.
I also found a hole in the fiber line that runs the perimeter of the coping ... got water in there too half way around the pool. It makes the light look choppy. I'll have to figure out how to suck that water out and seal it up then pray it doesn't algae up ... the stuff is over $3/foot. Sigh.
Is there any safe way to stay under the water and still breath using home available materials?
~18,000g; 16' x 32' IG; Vinyl; 1HP x 36sq-ft Hayward DE; Solar Attic PCS2 Heat; G25 Nature2; New Water 400; Fiber Stars 8-Color Perimeter and Wall; Clear Cover
Re: Unfloating the liner for leak check.
Found a 3/4" rip on the bottom of the shallow end last night .... it had pretty good suction on it too.
~18,000g; 16' x 32' IG; Vinyl; 1HP x 36sq-ft Hayward DE; Solar Attic PCS2 Heat; G25 Nature2; New Water 400; Fiber Stars 8-Color Perimeter and Wall; Clear Cover
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