Every pool in North Texas loses some water to sun and wind. A leak is different: the water goes somewhere it shouldn't, and in clay soil that causes damage you can't see until it is expensive.
Signs It Is More Than Evaporation
- You are adding water more than about once a week.
- The level keeps dropping in cool or cloudy weather.
- Wet or soft ground near the pool, or grass that is greener in one spot.
- Water around the equipment pad.
- Air bubbles coming from the return jets.
- Cracks in the tile line, or tile and coping that have come loose.
- A water bill that has crept up.
A Quick Check
Set a bucket of pool water on a step, mark the water level inside the bucket and the pool level outside it, and look again after a day. The bucket loses water only to evaporation. If the pool has dropped noticeably more than the bucket, you have a leak.
The bucket tells you there is a leak. It doesn't tell you where, and that is the part that matters.
Where Pools Leak
- Underground plumbing, especially where pipes meet fittings.
- The skimmer, where plastic meets the concrete shell.
- Return fittings, light housings and the main drain.
- Cracks in the shell.
- Seals and valves at the equipment pad.
Why Waiting Costs More
Leaking water washes soil out from under the deck and the pool. In North Texas clay, wet soil swells and dry soil shrinks, so a leak can crack a deck, tilt coping and open the shell further. If the level drops below the skimmer, the pump runs dry and can burn out. A small plumbing repair today can become a structural repair by next season.
How We Find It
We pressure test the plumbing lines one at a time, check the shell and fittings, and inspect the equipment. You get a clear answer on where the water is going and a firm price to fix it before any repair starts.
Losing water?
The sooner a leak is found, the smaller the repair. Call and we'll come find it.