How to find a hole in the liner?

[waste]

Ag pools will show their leaks if the leak is on the wall or close to the wall.

If your AG has a hole on the bottom of the liner, it's doubtful that you would be able to see the water puddling

If the leak is small, it's harder to find, but - once found, a patch can give you ~5 more years of use

If you have any questions about patching the liner or finding the leak - all you have to do is let us know

[ralph]

I have a 7 yr old liner( in a 40 yr old pool) that is leaking at the liner to skimmer faceplate gasket (the pool framing is steel). In addition I have a cracked skimmer that requires replacement. I do not want to replace the liner. The 3.5" concrete deck will be cut away to access the skimmer area and most likely dirt base to dig up to remove and replace skimmer and new faceplate & gaskets. The new faceplate & skimmer match identically the old. My questions are twofold- (1) while the liner is quite pliable what risk do I run of the liner being torn during disassemble of faceplate and gasket and what could be done to patch it? ( I have had a couple of pool companies come and look at it and they say "no problem"-However in their wriiten bid they claim no responsibility if they tear the liner!! (I find this hard to take!!). (2)- What's your opinion that the liner leak may have rusted badly enough to require patch of the steel and would the liner need to be replace to make the fix?

Thanks for your help

Ralph

[aylad]

Ralph,

This sticky is meant for how to find holes in the liner. You have a specific situation that you need advice for...therefore, I've split this post off into its own thread in this forum, here http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthr...eplace-skimmer. For those offering advice, please reply to the new thread.

Thanks!!

[wgregww]

I swim around with goggles and look, I have found everyone of my holes.

[glockshooter]

Just reading around with the dye method. So I'm clear, the pump will be off, and the water as calm as possible. Do I have to walk around and drip the dye in, looking for it to be sucked out, or do I put the dye in and look for it to settle out?

[PoolDoc]

Unless your leak is HUGE, you have to have the tip of the dye emitter (can be a bottle of phenol red) within 1/4" or less of the suspected leak location. I'm posting two short movies of me leak-testing a commercial kiddie pool. They illustrate (a) how to do it and (b) a NEGATIVE (no leak) result. I have to do some minimal editing on the POSITIVE test result before I can post it. I'll put the links in the following post, once YouTube has them live.

[PoolDoc]

http://youtu.be/Y90c7pYMgPc