Hi again-
I have a Vinyl lined inground pool approx 14'x28'x6' at the deepest spot. The liner was replaced about 4 years ago.
I'm currently losing 1.5" inches per day, which I calculate out to approx 366 gallons per day. Seems like this should be obvious, but I can't find it....
Funny thing, I had a wet spot in the yard near the pool so I figured, aha got ya. Dug down through the wet ground and found a pipe. Unfortunately, this pipe is a sprinkler line leaking instead, so good to fix that, but didn't solve the pool problem..
Anyway...I put plugs in the 2 return and 1 vac ports (all about the same height) and have not run the pool plumbing for 5 days now. I've marked the pool each day and the rate of leaking seems quite constant over all of these days. We haven't had any rain but a sprinkle. Today the water is now just almost under the eyeballs/vac port.
I've shot some dye in a syringe at a few places, like around the ladder mounts, around the light, and I made up a long stick so I could hold the syringe over the bottom drain and shot some there. I didn't see any obvious movement of the dye heading to any particular place, it seemed to disperse in all directions.
The skimmer is holding water, so I'm pretty sure it's not that, and the water level is now below the skimmer and it's still leaking, so I think I'm safe to rule that out, yes?
The only other place, assuming there is not a hole in the liner, would be along the plastic step section going into the pool, the pool light, or the bottom drain, or the ladder mounts. I have shot some dye at all these things though and not seen it get sucked in anywhere.
Help please - any ideas for something I'm missing? or how to check in a different way?
I'm thinking I shouldn't let it get much lower or this is not good for the liner?
Thanks for any words of wisdom. Pictures to be attached in the next post
I have a Vinyl lined inground pool approx 14'x28'x6' at the deepest spot. The liner was replaced about 4 years ago.
I'm currently losing 1.5" inches per day, which I calculate out to approx 366 gallons per day. Seems like this should be obvious, but I can't find it....
Funny thing, I had a wet spot in the yard near the pool so I figured, aha got ya. Dug down through the wet ground and found a pipe. Unfortunately, this pipe is a sprinkler line leaking instead, so good to fix that, but didn't solve the pool problem..
Anyway...I put plugs in the 2 return and 1 vac ports (all about the same height) and have not run the pool plumbing for 5 days now. I've marked the pool each day and the rate of leaking seems quite constant over all of these days. We haven't had any rain but a sprinkle. Today the water is now just almost under the eyeballs/vac port.
I've shot some dye in a syringe at a few places, like around the ladder mounts, around the light, and I made up a long stick so I could hold the syringe over the bottom drain and shot some there. I didn't see any obvious movement of the dye heading to any particular place, it seemed to disperse in all directions.
The skimmer is holding water, so I'm pretty sure it's not that, and the water level is now below the skimmer and it's still leaking, so I think I'm safe to rule that out, yes?
The only other place, assuming there is not a hole in the liner, would be along the plastic step section going into the pool, the pool light, or the bottom drain, or the ladder mounts. I have shot some dye at all these things though and not seen it get sucked in anywhere.
Help please - any ideas for something I'm missing? or how to check in a different way?
I'm thinking I shouldn't let it get much lower or this is not good for the liner?
Thanks for any words of wisdom. Pictures to be attached in the next post
