Track down water loss before it damages your pool or property.
Every pool loses a little water to evaporation, but a real leak wastes water, throws off your chemistry, drives up your bill, and can undermine the soil and equipment around your pool. If your pool is dropping faster than evaporation explains, we help locate the source and advise on the fix.
We start with a bucket test to rule out ordinary evaporation, which in a Texas summer can be significant on its own.
Using pressure testing on the plumbing and dye testing at the shell and fittings, we narrow down where the water is actually escaping.
Once located, we explain the cause and the realistic options so you can decide how to proceed with full information.
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A simple bucket test tells you a lot: float a bucket of pool water on a step and mark both levels. If the pool drops noticeably faster than the bucket over a day or two, you likely have a leak rather than just evaporation.
More than people expect. An eighth to a quarter inch a day is typical, but a hot, dry, windy Texas summer day can take half an inch on its own, and local utilities quote about that as the summer average. So a quarter inch is not the ceiling. Consistent loss well beyond half an inch a day, especially if your chemistry keeps drifting or the ground stays wet, is what points to a leak worth investigating. The bucket test is the reliable check, because it measures your pool’s evaporation on the same day under the same conditions.
We use a combination of bucket testing, pressure testing of the plumbing lines, and dye testing at the shell and fittings to isolate whether the leak is in the structure, the plumbing, or the equipment.
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