Recent content by heweydewey

Awesome. Thanks Dave. I can't wait to go home and erase all the pencil marks on my skimmer and stop worrying about it!

Just a quick update. My pool was still losing water with the cover on - probably about 3/4" in a week with the cover on the entire time. Was just about to throw the towel in and call someone to check it out so I decided to clean the pool last night before I made the call. Well, God must have...

Thanks Dave, I needed to hear that from an expert. Doing a no pump test right now, just in case. Knowing that there is some allowable difference puts my mind at ease somewhat. Thanks again.

Hi all, I previously did the bucket test, both pump on and pump off, with resulted in no difference in bucket and pool water loss. That was last week. Well I did the bucket test again (pump on) just to be sure. Did it from monday 7am to today 7am. 12 hours showed no loss, but after 24 hours...

Hayward Super Pump. Yeah, when I took it apart I could see the water line where it was dripping behind the seal plate.

Hi Smykowski, I'm not sure which o-ring you're referring to. The housing gasket? The last time I had it apart I could definitely see it was leaking behind the shaft seal.

Hi All, I'm having an issue with a leaky shaft seal. I've replaced the seal 3 times already. First time lasted a few weeks, second and third time less than a day before it started a slow drip again. Any thoughts on what else could be wrong? Possibly the seal plate? I couldn't see anything...

Mike, No, I measured with the cover on. In hindsight I probably should have taken the cover off and let the rainwater on top of the solar cover run off into the pool before i made my starting level marks. There was quite a bit of water. Mostly pooled up down the seams running the length of the...

I don't think my fence is a great wind barrier. It's just that fence around the pool and the house on one side of the pool. Other than that, it's all open. Also, it rained the night before and when I made my starting level marks, I did notice alot of water settled on top of the solar cover...

Dave, thanks for the reply. It puts my mind at ease a little. I'm pretty sure I did the bucket test right and also did check at 12 and 24 hours. When I saw the loss overnight I was freaking out a little. Seemed a bit much even with the cover. My previous losses I was noticing before the bucket...

Hi All, About 2 weeks ago I was concerned that I might have a leak. Even with the solar cover on, my pool was losing some water. Air temp dropped considerably those few days (around mid to upper 50's at night) and my water temp was pretty warm (high 80's). I did the bucket test (24 hours with...