- Apr 5, 2022
- 14
I've got a small leak in two places on my pool housing. The pump seems to be sucking a lot of air from the inlet side of the housing (but not enough where it won't run)... I see lots of bubbles coming out of the return jet that is closest to the pool equipment. Also, when I shut the pump off a small amount of water dribbles out of the inlet side (so I know it's definitely leaking there). When the pump is running there is a very slow dribble coming out the output side of the housing (that runs to the filter) too. I have attached a photo with arrows showing the spots I'm talking about... you can see I used some duct tape just temporarily to see if covering up those spots removed the air bubbles (it did).
If you look in the photo you'll see that there isn't much pipe to cut this out and re-plumb, so I'm wondering how to fix this without having to go crazy re-doing everything. I'm pretty handy, but if this turns into a big replacement I'll probably just have to call in the professionals. Any advice you can give me would be much appreciated... is this fixable with epoxy or something like that?
If you look in the photo you'll see that there isn't much pipe to cut this out and re-plumb, so I'm wondering how to fix this without having to go crazy re-doing everything. I'm pretty handy, but if this turns into a big replacement I'll probably just have to call in the professionals. Any advice you can give me would be much appreciated... is this fixable with epoxy or something like that?