so we've been losing water and I didn't have time to diagnose and called in a leak detection company. the tech dove the pool today and found 5 half moon shaped cuts in the liner towards the bottom slope in the side. the odd thing is, when we let the pool just drain to where it stopped, it would always stop at the bottom of the skimmer. this is counter intuitive based on where the leak was found. i don't understand why this would be the case. anyone have any ideas or insight?
strange behavior from pool leak?
- Thread starter ckh1980
- Start date
- Jun 22, 2014
- 47,991
- Pool Size
- 17888
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-45 Plus
All I can figure is the cuts you see at the bottom of the liner may not have fully penetrated. If they did, there's no doubt the weight of water in a 20K pool would push out of those cuts. Even a pinhole equates to hundreds of gallons in no time. If the water stops at the skimmer, there's your leaky area. The exception would be if by some weird chance there's a cut at that lower waterline around the pool. My money is on the skimmer.
The diver checked my light, skimmers and main drain and said they were fine. I suppose it is possible that the level would have gone down below the skimmer but I just never let it get to that point? After the patch job, it seems to be holding fine now.
