Please help me diagnose this extremely frustrating leak

[poolnovice1]

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[PoolStored]

Gonna be tough to diagnose with some orientation. Can you post a few pictures of your equipment so that collectively they show everything. Take pics of the pool and spa. If you can show the pad in relation to the pool. This is gonna help us help you...

 

[Jimrahbe]

PN1,

My pool overflow pipe is connected into all my deck drains, so it is possible that your overflow pipe is connected to something else.

In any case, here is what I suggest after our current winter freezing issue is over.

Since you are not using your pool, just let the Pool and Spa drain down and find where it stops.

It would be interesting to know where the spa drain-down stops. And if the pool continues to drain down after the spa is empty.

I guess my point is to try and fix any pool leak, before you try and fix any spa draining back into the pool issues.

Thanks,

Jim R.

 

[poolnovice1]

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[poolnovice1]

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[poolnovice1]

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[Jimrahbe]

PN1,

The next step it to plug the spa jets and the floor drain. And another open pipes, if there are any.

Fill up the spa and see if it drains down.

If it drains, then you most likely have a bad light enclosure. If it does not drain, then you know the light is good.

Then remove the plug in the floor drain and see what happens. If it does not drain, you can assume the drain is ok.

The problem then is that all the jets are tied together and behind concrete.

Thanks,

Jim R.

 

[poolnovice1]

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[Jimrahbe]

PN1,

I have never had the dye test work for me. You can't have any water movement to get it to work and just getting the dye to where you want causes all kinds of movement.

Could be just me, but I have had zero luck with dye tests.

I suspect it would work ok if you have a huge leak.

Thanks,

Jim R.

 

[poolnovice1]

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[Jimrahbe]

PN1,

I have no experience with that style of light, so not sure how it seals. On my pool light, the light niche is flooded, and the seal is in the back where the wires go into the conduit.

Let's see if @1poolman1 has any inputs, or what some of our other members have to say.

Thanks,

Jim R.

 

[poolnovice1]

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[Jimrahbe]

PN1,

With the lens off, I would try the dye test. Can't hurt and you might get lucky.

Thanks,

Jim R.

 

[poolnovice1]

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[Jimrahbe]

PN1,

If the leak is in the light, your spa should drain down to just below the light... Or, it will drain down until the pool and spa are the same level, which ever comes first.

Thanks,

Jim R.

 

[1poolman1]

PN1,

I have no experience with that style of light, so not sure how it seals. On my pool light, the light niche is flooded, and the seal is in the back where the wires go into the conduit.

Let's see if @1poolman1 has any inputs, or what some of our other members have to say.

Thanks,

Jim R.

Appears to be the lens for an old fiber-optics light system. Looks like a FiberStars Broadcast lens, but any of their lenses will fit the opening. Most of the time the threads were proprietary, but some were just 1.5" FIP.

 

[Jimrahbe]

@1poolman1

Do you have any idea how they are sealed to prevent water leaking out of the spa?


Thanks,

Jim R.

 

[1poolman1]

@1poolman1

Do you have any idea how they are sealed to prevent water leaking out of the spa?


Thanks,

Jim R.

Gasket, that's the orange ring in the picture.

 

[poolnovice1]

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