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I have a 25 year old diving board embeded with 4 legs into my concrete pool deck. No idea how old the concrete is - it's in marginal shape at best. Last summer the diving board started getting loose on the back 2 holes. If an adult goes to the end of the diving board the back end lifts up...

Anything come of this? Sounds similar to my situation.

I just realized I can hear cavitating in the grass about half way back to the equipment. If I lay down and put my ear to the ground - don't ask how I figured this out :) I don't think there are any couplings, but who knows. Maybe the previous owners broke the line digging or something. It...

If I break the skimmer, I need to replace the vinyl liner right? We just replaced it a few years ago, so I really don't want to do that! If I cut into the concrete further away, then carefully dig towards the skimmer would that be ok, or would I need to cut concrete right at the skimmer...

OK, I did the follow. 1) Turned off pump 2) plugged port from skimmer to pump at the skimmer (with the winter plug) 3) took lid off pump basket 4) I also, put the sand filter to waste and removed the pressure gauge relieving seal in the sand filter. I was thinking back pressure could create...

I have never put pucks in the skimmer, but we only bought the house 4 years ago, so who knows about the other 26 years :) So if I follow, you are suggesting I: - turning off the pump - plugging the line from skimmer to pump at the skimmer - take lid off pump and watch water level. If it goes...

OK, that's encouraging then. I'm pretty sure it's not leaking water, for sure not significantly. I'll check the o-rings on the pump drain ports.

Not that I'm aware of... If its losing water its very small. This time of year I top it up occasionally, but in the spring when its cooler it seems stable. The pump is on an automatic timer so its off 1/2 the time.

Yeah, I can try again... I only have a small section of pipe coming out of the ground, hard plumbed into the pump. So there aren't a lot of options, but admittedly the connections are 30 years old. I couldn't find a leak, but maybe I should just redo the above ground plumbing... I did...

I plugged off the main drain port in the skimmer. Sadly, no change.

Nope, but I can for sure. Would that indicate an air leak in the main drain? I'll try now.

My pool has a main drain that goes into the skimmer. Like the diagram attached. But I only have 1 pipe from the skimmer to the pump. It's all plumbed directly to the pump with no diverters or unions anywhere at the pump. Its old... 1980s.

Two pronged question here... I've followed all the usual steps to try and locate a suction side leak. No luck. 30 year old pool, 1 skimmer line to Hayward superpump to sand filter. I've had air bubbles on and off for years. Could never find a fix, so just ignored it. Recently my heater...

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I just replaced my vinyl liner. When doing the work we found some problems/cracks in my fibreglass steps. The liner has been put in, and water filled up to acceptable level (~60% full) to hold it in place, but still below the steps so we could work on them. I had a fibreglass guy come in to...