Nothing beats a refreshing dip in your own pool. However, owning a pool require maintenance and repairs, including dealing with leaks. If you own a pool, eventually you most likely will have a leak that needs repair. The important thing is to know how to check if your pool has leak so you can get it repaired quickly before it causes damage to your property and costs you even more money.
There is an easy ways to see if your pool is losing water. Try this simple technique. Take a bucket, preferable plastic so it won’t rust, and put in on the first step in your pool. Fill the bucket to the same level as the water surrounding it so that the bucket water is even with the water in the pool. Make sure your automatic pool filler is turned off if you have one. Also make sure no one gets in to the pool during the test period. Check the water around the bucket once a day. If the level in the pool goes below the level in the bucket, you have a leak. If they stay the same but both lose water, it is just evaporation.
A general rule of thumb is that you should not be putting in more than two or three inches of water a week unless the temperatures are very high causing excess evaporation. If it seems like you are losing water, you probably are. The next step is finding a reliable pool repair company with experience in pool leak detection to find the leak and get it fixed before any more water is lost!
