I am in NJ, the last two weeks had some rain but nothing crazy in my area (at least these last two weeks, we had a lot of rain this season). I had the pool closed by my normal guy who does the opening and closing each year. It was closed two weeks ago, 09/30/2023.
Today I just happened to open the skimmer cover to check if there are any animals or anything trapped in there. I noticed the water level dropped about 2in. I had noted the water level on closing day. It was right on a sharp crease on the gizmo. See attached image.
I Googled a bunch, read some other posts here on TFP. Could this be simple evaporation in two weeks time? The colder weather and air pressure and such that I was reading about? My pool guy thinks not. He doesn't think there is a leak at the gizmo or any plugs since that wouldn't account for that much water loss. He said the plumbing lines wouldn't hold that much water and I agree. He is thinking there might be a cut on the liner somewhere. My pool has straight sides and rounded ends, so if I do the math of 16ft x 32ft x 2", it would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 400-600 gallons of water. Am I doing that calculation correctly? The pool is 8ft on the deep end 3ft on the shallow end. I just calculated volume for 16ft x 32ft x 2" and did some fuzzy logic because of the rounded ends to come up with 400 or so gallons. A true rectangle would be 638 gallons.
Anyway, could you guys offer your opinions and/or what I should do next to be proactive? It's supposed to pour today so I will wait until tomorrow to try a bucket test and check over the next week to see if I am losing any more water. I might fill the pool back up to that crease on the gizmo to be sure.
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Today I just happened to open the skimmer cover to check if there are any animals or anything trapped in there. I noticed the water level dropped about 2in. I had noted the water level on closing day. It was right on a sharp crease on the gizmo. See attached image.
I Googled a bunch, read some other posts here on TFP. Could this be simple evaporation in two weeks time? The colder weather and air pressure and such that I was reading about? My pool guy thinks not. He doesn't think there is a leak at the gizmo or any plugs since that wouldn't account for that much water loss. He said the plumbing lines wouldn't hold that much water and I agree. He is thinking there might be a cut on the liner somewhere. My pool has straight sides and rounded ends, so if I do the math of 16ft x 32ft x 2", it would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 400-600 gallons of water. Am I doing that calculation correctly? The pool is 8ft on the deep end 3ft on the shallow end. I just calculated volume for 16ft x 32ft x 2" and did some fuzzy logic because of the rounded ends to come up with 400 or so gallons. A true rectangle would be 638 gallons.
Anyway, could you guys offer your opinions and/or what I should do next to be proactive? It's supposed to pour today so I will wait until tomorrow to try a bucket test and check over the next week to see if I am losing any more water. I might fill the pool back up to that crease on the gizmo to be sure.
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