Crack near bottom of pool

[edwardscissorhands]

Check with the town's building department, they should be able to pull up the permit from when the pool was built.

The public records do not go back that far.

 

[edwardscissorhands]

You have two choices for taking care of the pool, you can either keep it filled up and maintain the chemistry as best you can with constant water replacement, or you can let it go until the repairs happen. The challenge with letting it go is that it is more difficult for repair people to see what is wrong and make estimates of how much work will be involved. I'd keep it full.

Meantime, you either need to figure out who built the pool, or get a couple of companies out to do estimates for repairs, or start in on a major do it yourself project.

I firgured out who built the pool. Is it ok to pour clorox in a fiberglass pool? And will this damage the compound used to fix leak?

 

[JasonLion]

You can pour bleach directly into the pool as long as you pour slowly in front of a return jet while the pump is running. Or, if you can't run the pump, you need to pour the bleach slowly around the perimeter of the pool and then brush the entire pool or do something similar to make sure the bleach is throughly mixed in. It won't damage the leak patch as long as it is throughly mixed in.

 

[edwardscissorhands]

I heard filling up a pool once a week is normal. Is this true? I live in Florida.

 

[JasonLion]

It all depends on where you live. In Maryland we rarely need to add water to the pool. The humidity stops most evaporation and rain replaces most of the splash out. In Arizona, people need to add water to their pool frequently. There, low humidity means lots of evaporation and frequent topping off. I would expect Florida to be more like Maryland than Arizona, though you might have fairly low humidity this time of year.

 

[edwardscissorhands]

I am waiting until the water stops leaking to fix the leak. When the water gets low enough the return sucks air. Is it OK to let the return suck air?

 

[JasonLion]

You don't want to run the pump when the system is drawing in air. It is fine to run the pump when the return is above the water line, as that will just spray water into the pool from above.

 

[edwardscissorhands]

My pump makes strange noise once per cycle. I did run the pump when the water was low.