Swimming Pool Leaks: Causes and How to Find Them

Discovering where leaks, in a swimming pool, are coming from, can be tricky. For example, the location of a leak can be a dead give away; if you have a huge amount of water flowing out of the pool at a certain spot. Other times, you may not be so lucky to know where the leak is coming from and finding the leak can become quite a task.

Not overreacting to water loss is essential. In other words, just because you notice water levels dropping, doesn't necessarily mean your pool is leaking. You have to account for other factors. There are 3 perfectly good explanations for swimming pool water disappearing.

First of all, it could be a pipe, or plumbing leak. Second, you could have a swimming pool shell leak. Lastly, you could be losing water to evaporation. Actually, having a lot of people in your pool splashing around can cause a large amount of water loss too.

If you put more water in the pool and make a "no splashing, no diving" decree and still notice water loss; then you need to dig a little deeper. The next easiest, to test for, is evaporation. This involves a little bit of a science experiment. What you want to do is fill up something with water. Preferably you want to use a large container of some sort. Next, you will place the container full of water on the first step of your pool. Once your container of water is on the first step, compare the water level of the pool to the water in your container. You want the pool water and the container water to be level. If the levels are not even, add or remove water to/from the container, until it is level with the pool water. The next step will not make you very popular within your house, or your neighborhood, depending how many people use your pool. However, it is an essential step. You have to close your pool, to all swimmers, for a few days.