Hey everyone,
I am positively baffled. We knew we had water coming in and pushing against our vinyl liner pool last year, with a significant rain it would swell out and then a day or so later drain and effectively resets itself wrinkle free.
This year, after any appreciable rain, say an inch or more, not only does the liner float but the pool absolutely FILLS with dust/dirt. It doesn’t affect the chemistry at all, other than using slightly more chlorine but the pool is FILTHY!
behind the pool is being developed and all the water drains at a low spot behind our fence. Our pool sits about 20-25 inches above that low spot so I know it isn’t coming in over the concrete decking. It HAS to be finding an entry point within the pool, I assume. After running the filter 24/7 for about 5 days it goes back to crystal clear. But I need towash our cartridges 3 times a day for all those days and that just ain’t practical. Also, the pool is ugly and unswimmable until the filter can get all the dirt out.
how can this POSSIBLY be getting I to the pool?
My only theory is so much groundwater is coming in behind the pool with nowhere to go they it cascades up and over the liner where it meets the coping. I’ve never seen it happen but I can’t think of any other entry point.
We don’t lose any appreciable water to a leak without rain. I imagine standard amounts of evaporation. Maybe an inch or so a week in 90 degree heat with full sun all day.
Im open to any ideas here as to how water is getting in, how I can keep it out.
I am positively baffled. We knew we had water coming in and pushing against our vinyl liner pool last year, with a significant rain it would swell out and then a day or so later drain and effectively resets itself wrinkle free.
This year, after any appreciable rain, say an inch or more, not only does the liner float but the pool absolutely FILLS with dust/dirt. It doesn’t affect the chemistry at all, other than using slightly more chlorine but the pool is FILTHY!
behind the pool is being developed and all the water drains at a low spot behind our fence. Our pool sits about 20-25 inches above that low spot so I know it isn’t coming in over the concrete decking. It HAS to be finding an entry point within the pool, I assume. After running the filter 24/7 for about 5 days it goes back to crystal clear. But I need towash our cartridges 3 times a day for all those days and that just ain’t practical. Also, the pool is ugly and unswimmable until the filter can get all the dirt out.
how can this POSSIBLY be getting I to the pool?
My only theory is so much groundwater is coming in behind the pool with nowhere to go they it cascades up and over the liner where it meets the coping. I’ve never seen it happen but I can’t think of any other entry point.
We don’t lose any appreciable water to a leak without rain. I imagine standard amounts of evaporation. Maybe an inch or so a week in 90 degree heat with full sun all day.
Im open to any ideas here as to how water is getting in, how I can keep it out.
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