Finally got around to doing the bucket test, and I definitely have a leak. Looks like around 0.5 inches more than evaporation per 24 hours. So with a satellite estimate of the area, I come up with about 200 gallons per day.
I don't see any water around the pool, nothing obvious in the pool, pool house seems dry enough (certainly not hundreds of gallons a day in there, I'd notice I think).
Is the next step just to let it keep draining until it stops? I suspect it might be in the main drain, in which case I'll waste a ton of water to find out, and still won't really know where the leak is.
Is it time to call a professional? Is this a slow enough leak that it would be cheaper to just keep filling it and topping up the chemicals? The main annoyance is my salt and other stuff goes down more than it should.
I did a die test, but it was inconclusive. The light doesn't seem to be an issue, I tested the main drain and the returns, but it's probably too small of a leak to notice all the way out at the main drain itself or return itself, if it's far into the pipe.
I do get a small amount of air in the system, whenever I do the filter release it's a second of air before I get water, but it's a second of air regardless of how long it's been running it seems. No big bubbles in the pump or anything like that.
I don't see any water around the pool, nothing obvious in the pool, pool house seems dry enough (certainly not hundreds of gallons a day in there, I'd notice I think).
Is the next step just to let it keep draining until it stops? I suspect it might be in the main drain, in which case I'll waste a ton of water to find out, and still won't really know where the leak is.
Is it time to call a professional? Is this a slow enough leak that it would be cheaper to just keep filling it and topping up the chemicals? The main annoyance is my salt and other stuff goes down more than it should.
I did a die test, but it was inconclusive. The light doesn't seem to be an issue, I tested the main drain and the returns, but it's probably too small of a leak to notice all the way out at the main drain itself or return itself, if it's far into the pipe.
I do get a small amount of air in the system, whenever I do the filter release it's a second of air before I get water, but it's a second of air regardless of how long it's been running it seems. No big bubbles in the pump or anything like that.