Pool leaking water

[jmmoose]

So I am sure this topic comes up often in this forum but I think I have a unique situation. So we recently bought a home with a pool. There were a ton of issues with the pool in the beginning from the liner pulling from the coping, chemical imbalance, bugs. So we finally got all the issues fixed and started enjoying our pool last month.

A few storms came through and a lot of debris got into the pool. I needed to vacuum the pool on waste so I decided to fill the pool up some before doing so. I put the hose in the pool and turned on and asked my wife to turn off in a bit cause I needed to leave. Well she forgot and when I did ultimately get home, the pool was completely full of water and there were wet spots all over the place.

I started vacuuming the pool on waste to not only remove all the extra water but to go ahead and clean the pool at the same time. Water in the yard went away, the pool was clean and everything was fine. That was a little less than 2 weeks ago.

Now I am losing water, approximately an inch a day, and I have no idea why. It started a few days after the flood. I have no clue whats going on and my regular pool guy is on vacation.

Any ideas and help?!?! Thanks All.

[Cgheet]

Similar issue here. We are losing an inch a day as well so I feel your pain

First you need to identify where your leak is coming from. With your pool pump off, Do a dye test around all jets, stairs, skimmers and main drain to determine if water is leaking out in any of these locations. Google best ways to perform a dye test in pools.

If dye tests turn up nothing you may have a leak in one of your main plumbing lines. Do a simple test by placing a piece of tape and mark your waterlevel then, with pump running, close your skimmer valve for a day to determine if leakage could be there and then alternately open skimmer valve and shut main drain line. Watch water levels for water loss.

If you still have inconclusive results you can turn off your pump and let your pool leak until you find the issue. For example if your pool stops leaking once the water drops beneath any stairs that is likely the culprit. Same for skimmer, then return jets then main drain. That's how we determined our main drain leakage. Though I waited until it was the end of the season because I didn't want to be with out a pool all summer!

Hope this helps

[PoolDoc]

Moose, you can take your wife off the hot seat: I really doubt that overfilling the pool had anything to do with the leak!

The post above is helpful, but the starting place is to verify that you have a leak, and not evaporation loss, by doing a bucket test:
http://pool9.net/bucket-leak/. The test will not only verify the leak, but will show you how large the leak is, even if it's raining. (If you have 1" of rain, but lose 1" of water from the pool, your leak is actually 2" for the period of the test!)

This video will show you how to leak test with phenol red: http://youtu.be/Y90c7pYMgPc