Chasing pool leaks, Don't call a leak detection company until you watch this

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How to determine if your pool/spa/fountain is leaking or not and how to narrow down the leak location if, in fact it is leaking.
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[@SilentNoMore64]

For those of you who are here because you already know you have a leak, start this video at 5:37 to learn how to fix it.

[@jaywojack5124]

Thanks for posting. Did this today and found a small tear in my liner. Local pool store had a repair kit for underwater repair. Water was cold but no more leak. Thanks for posting 👍

[@CrazyRiGuy]

Anyone else not have a pool but wanted to watch this cause it looked interesting?

[@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS]

Me even though I lived it.

[@CrazyRiGuy]

Swimming Pool Science ya lol

[@MrNeptunebob]

Anyone who is willing to jump in the pool and hold his breath that long is going to be hired for my pool.

[@FlyGuy2000]

*raises hand* Today I also learned several different ways to fell a tree.

[@skyforce2132]

I’m about to have a pool

[@ahmedkamel5166]

That was a very helpful video My regards to this amazing man I found the leak by myself after the leak detection company told me that there wasn't any leak found

[@markhemann5998]

I enjoyed the humor, along with the superior camera work, and covering how to do all the drains and returns.👍🏻

[@DaveInTrinity]

Great video. Very helpful. I wanted to mention that what may look like a tiny leak (like around a pump fitting) adds up really quickly. Even that drip, drip, drip sucks gallons out of the pool fast.

[@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS]

It certainly does!

[@jaimequintero6950]

Great video I've been needing to chase down a leak and now I know how, thx!

[@MucaroBoricua]

Great video! Good information delivered in an entertaining way.

[@eeandersen]

Nice job, even fun to watch. Laughed at the pool toy leak test and gasped at the sideways fall!

[@ronnyc8251]

Great vid! I have been working on pools for about 20 years now, and I have never heard of this test. I live in PA though where we only get about 6-7 months of the year. Thank you for the great info.

[@beebob1279]

The bucket test is very good. But I find it hard to believe you never used dye to detect leaks.

[@maddmann]

Im from Massachusetts and knew this 20 years ago. I feal bad for your customers

[@hectormeza991]

Great way to waste time. Just call the pros man. Its like trying to repair your own shoes and you know nothing about shoe repairs like a shoe repair man. Same as when working on your car not a mechanic dont fuck around just get it lokked at amd repaired by the pros. So what does a homeowner do after revealing a leak??? Fix it or just call the pro and tell him where it is and how to fix it? LoL

[@1975MGB]

Six or seven months of pool weather?

[@brendabass621]

WOW.... YOU ARE GREAT ON THIS.......I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!!!!............MANY BLESSINGS FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY

[@bflippsytrance]

As many comments I do not own a pool, yet I feel I learned something, which got you a subscriber. :)

[@josephalexis6378]

Powerful instruction. Thank you.

[@OfentseMwaseFilms]

Great video

[@Astamou10]

Thank you so much Josh for your great information.

[@dontworryaboutit5989]

Good info. I have a lined pool so some of it doesn't apply. But since I suspect a plumbing leak that's the part I interested in.

[@scottrobbins6216]

I have a pool so I watched this for useful information

[@augustbeach824]

Well done. Clearly explained so it's easy to do!

[@steveweber2436]

Thanks. Informative AND entertaining.

[@CitizenPerkins]

Great tips! Thank you!

[@kansai9685]

thank you for this informative video it helped me a lot ..

[@dekebell3307]

EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks for this! Sub'd

[@Machine311]

I use JB waterweld on a lot of my pool things. Mostly the aboveground liner.

[@sajmv]

Great Video. Thanks for the ideas!

[@mariuszklimach4953]

Great video Josh, opened my eyes wider...

[@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS]

Thanks man!

[@RandomAwesomeism]

Thank you for the warning about phenol

[@catatonicable]

Lovely, trying it now..Thank You

[@pondguynorcal8337]

Incredible video! Thank you very much, I know the next steps I need to take. DO WE USE THE SAME DYE APPROACH AROUND TILE/GROUT CRACKS ETC ??

[@MooShaka89]

I came here because KZbin put it on my feed. Watched the whole thing.

[@stefanp5908]

Great Video! Thank youz for the information

[@ThinkerOnTheBus]

7:13 I can only imagine how many questions that statement generated!

[@cf9017]

Awesome video brother....thank you.

[@geraldkyle5819]

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[@rb8098]

Great video and funny! Thanks!

[@soneeeee4440]

here's a question, if you have a 45 year old concrete pool (northeast - solid ice winters), how long can you expect plastic fittings to last - do they shrink and become compromised over time? If you had to change a bottom drain fitting and bore out a 12 inch hole to address the rot around the fitting and reset a new drain fitting, how would you do that with ground water on the other side?

[@bonnieparker1238]

Holy crow! Great video! Thank you! Way better to be prepared and knowledgeable before calling for help. I have always compared a line drawn at the skimmer with the solar cover on and again tested with the solar cover off to account for evaporation. Your tests make sense and fool proof. No guessing. I called for help many years ago and I thankfully didn’t have money to rip up the cement decking as they suggested because after I researched, and researched I found out it was a filter gasket. Easy inexpensive change. It took me such a long time though. Almost gave up on keeping my pool! Those people who did that to me should be put out of business!

[@bobl1090]

Great video on the bucket test and testing the return lines, but talking under water that was a real trick, ha ha

[@rcak2009]

This was very helpful...

[@MrTomZeus]

Great idea! I love this video!

[@TwinHomeExperts]

GREAT VID!

[@WHOMEWHOYOU]

Finally a Pool Guy that knows what He's Talking About.... at least I can understand something of what he's saying, Thanks and will check out your other Videos .

[@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS]

Thank you so much! We try to have a little fun with these videos but then most important thing is delivering accurate information in a way the average person can understand.

[@Twotontessie]

Excellent video thanks.

[@warrenibbotson3126]

Helpful..Thank you!

[@AvaRose00]

Great video. My pool is very close to my house. A few years ago I started noticing water underneath my house. I thought it was rain water that was getting underneath because it always seemed to happen after heavy rain. Today I was filling the pool level with a hose and I forgot to turn it off. The level was very high so I decided to look underneath the house, we haven’t had rain in a few weeks and everything is dry, and sure enough there was water underneath the house… I know that non of the equipment outside is leaking enough for that to happen. Maybe now I can figure out what’s going on…

[@toms8483]

One thing, if u dont have dye u can look around the house for stuff. I settled on the left over coffee in the pot from that morning and it worked perfectly. Kool aid powder or fruit juice would probably also work

[@darrellsomerville8092]

Mrs. Stewart's Liquid Bluing works great found in the laundry soap section at market, can also be used to tint pool water blue.

[@CrimeDoesNotPay]

Decaf or regular? 😃

[@rcmodelr]

Most swimming pool algaecides have a dye in them and many times, I've done leak detecting using a syringe filled with the customers pool algaecide to act as the dye to be pulled into the leak.

[@reddeath5011]

Lol... loved the “do not use the phenol red” reagent as a dye test. That is an old school pool guy trick.

[@frankwiddifield7520]

Use the phenol red. Who cares about a carcinogen in a pool. It's not like we put things like chlorine or acid in it anyway. I just would rely on that same bottle for an accurate ph reading ever again...

[@CoCotheTurtle]

And he does put it in his mouth while underwater!

[@tomjones4145]

Great video / thank you

[@ellkir1521]

Nice. Good job!

[@06Kabal]

So we’re not going to talk about how long this guy held his breath while checking the main drain at the bottom of the pool??

[@06Kabal]

You’re right, I didn’t even notice.

[@djh254]

Or how he didn’t even take his shoes off lol

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

he was under for 1 minute ..

[@kbartbme]

I totally noticed. :)

[@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS]

I can just over 2 mins underwater but I’m a lightweight compared to your average Free Diver that can do 5 minutes without even struggling..

[@sajidrafique375]

Best video..let me go buy some dyes

[@MikeKTOL]

Excellent advice! I just bought a new home with a swimming pool and since I never owned a swimming pool before, I was curious as to why I have to add water every other day I am going to follow your advice to see if in fact I have a leak. Thanks 😊

[@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS]

It’s a great way to get to know the ins and outs of your pool as well. Glad you found this helpful!

[@starrhardin4790]

I have to add water every 2 days do I have a leak?

[@1975MGB]

Every other day? Water doesn't evaporate that quickly unless you're having very high temperatures

[@educatedbeats6604]

🤣 Crack me up Josh... Appreciate your vids bro!

[@PlumbingExplained]

Solid info bruh.

[@AidanSkoyles]

ok now how do you fix that leak in the return jet line? Any way to isolate other than digging the whole thing out?

[@cuervovallejo2711]

So if your leak is under the concrete, it might be cheaper to just keep paying a little extra for lost water or collect rain water to use as a topping off water source.

[@lazkes9912]

WE SUCCESSFULLY REPAIR A LOT OF LEAKS IN LONG ISLAND AREA ESPECIALLY POOLS THAT WHERE NOT WINTERIZE PROPERLY

[@boondogglers9512]

THANK YOU for this video! might save me 400$

[@simondalton8295]

‘If there is more water in your pool than the bucket, then someone is messing around with you and goofing your test’. I died 😂😂😂👏👏👏

[@Wertyhappy27]

I really want to see a pool repair now

[@texyat7388]

Great video. Where can I get a syringe set up like you have so that I can perform that dye test? Thanks.

[@greatgazoo01]

Can you tell me how to fix the jet when you showed the dye go into the jet?

[@TW-ud6sb]

Well done!!

[@zlopezf]

When you doing the bucket test do you have to shut off your pool?

[@LubaLuba1]

I have little sand near one of the returns only and not at the other returns but the one also blows bubbles too only one that does that too.

[@barrymonroy7138]

I'm loving the back yard. Its like the perfect size..

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

So you updated your picture to reflect your face mask for the FEAR for the Flu..?? How tacky was that ...

[@barrymonroy7138]

@@ACommenterOnKZbin No... it just gangster ...

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

@Barry Monroy: Which part is gangster ..?? The profile picture or the fact that you are in fear of the flu ..??

[@barrymonroy7138]

@@ACommenterOnKZbin What flu...

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

@@barrymonroy7138 wow ... thay deserves a giant WTF to that

[@weslegna]

Super useful and super funny 🤣🤣 thanks a bunch!’

[@YouTubestopsharingmyrealname]

I got short of breath watching him unscrew that cap.Dudes got a good pair of lungs on him. I can only hold my breath half as long before suffering a panic attack!

[@hmhm9857]

Casey H. Every time it cuts he goes back up for air.

[@MarcusAurelius33036]

"I can only hold my breath half as long before suffering a panic attack!" That's because you're a cat and cats are terrified of water.

[@rosemarydouglass3744]

that was brilliant ---- I can do that

[@deependfrank]

good video, good info

[@duduzeralima2467]

For these modern pools where my water fill is located like some water fills is on the ground with like a little floater . Where I turned off that ?

[@grapplerguy2007]

i cant count how many times ive had leak detection sent out to do bucket tests and to say there are no leaks. one way to know you have a significant leak is loss of stabilizer over a short period of time when there has not been heavy storms or overfilling

[@phartsdust]

thanks

[@wudgee]

My pool company told me to turn off the pump and put polystyrene over the skimmer hole, poolside, to see if the water level goes down, because there’s a leak somewhere. I can’t see the sense in this nor how it would successfully block the water from the skimmer, it’s had a new vinyl liner put in. We now find there are leaks from the pipe going into the pump, joint going into the glass bead filter, and possibly the lid of the pump.

[@josefran2004]

Thx, all is good

[@cardo1111]

If the pool pump has to pump water up every time it's turned on (Hayward Super Pump, pumping water as if unprimed takes about 15 seconds) after being shut off for several hours. Is this indicative of a leak?

[@1975MGB]

When our pool was put in the water level went down 3 inches overnight. The installer was freaking out, thinking he'd have to tear up the concrete after finding no leaks in any of the common places. Turned out the the electrician had put to sharp of a bend in the electrical line for the light and it popped off the back of the niche. Easy fix fortunately.

[@johnnybravo-ir3ev]

Do yall ever work on vinyl pools?

[@garyinmarz8938]

Thanks

[@marilynhaughton1955]

Swimming Pool Science. Hopefully I just managed to send you three photos of pool. Thanks for your interest.

[@scottfranco1962]

Not bad. Got yourself a subscriber.

[@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS]

Glad to have you on board Scott!

[@mgpvii]

I have plenty of tile and grout missing from my pool and no leaks at those locations. Where I found my leak to be was where the plastic part of the skimmer meets the pool structure/concrete. Pool remained the same during winter so I knew it wasn’t bottom drain it also drained quicker when pool was filled more which meant the water pressure effected leak therefore no need for bucket test.

[@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS]

There ya go! That’s one of the first spots I check.

[@simplysarah0310]

I think mine is in that area as well because we will fill it up a little higher than middle of skimmer and we keep having to fill it up more than we should. At first I thought it was evaporation (just purchased the house and in FL heat) so I waited awhile. Then I noticed some cracking around the skimmer mouth. I just put some of that pool putty on those cracks today and filled it back up so we shall see in the next few days if that’s where the leak was coming from and the ONLY area as I don’t want to deal with the main drain 😩 lol 🤞

[@simplysarah0310]

And it worked! Love that putty stuff!

[@Saskia-uz4ds]

Damn, you can hold your breath forever man!

[@oKacz]

Losing 1.5k a day roughly. Had. Main drain piping patched underground. Will try that phenol red reagent near a return

[@pegg1258]

Please come to NJ and find and fix my leak!!!

[@omezey]

Good vibes my dude. I'm digging the leak detection/murder-suicide podcast format. Who has the screenplay rights?

[@marilynhaughton1955]

Swimming Pool Science. Aaah Thanks. The guys that worked on my pool are coming sometime tomorrow. The huge enorme de grande communal pool two roads in front of me, that has been being fixed for months is due to be finished tomorrow. I may just go and throw myself in that.

[@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS]

Marilyn, We’d love to see a picture of your pool. Would you email us a picture? [e-mail]

[@MrZen-gl4pg]

You can listen/hear common pool leaks at your jets or skimmer or Tiles with a $10 automotive stethoscope.. Pump is off, quiet surroundings. You can hear leaks.

[@yinadia]

Wow very interesting!!

[@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS]

Those are the only kinds of videos we make.

[@mattaboy10]

I had a leak at my main drain in the bottom of my (fiberglass) pool. After draining the whole pool, I found that about half of the bolts holding the sump housing to the bottom of the pool had corroded and was allowing the sump housing to sag toward that end of the pool and allowing massive amounts of water to exit the underside of the pool and overflow into a neighboring yard. Replaced all of the bolts and the problem was solved.

[@williamatchison6261]

Im afraid to drain a fiberglass pool. Ground water could raise the bottom. Is your groundwater level low?

[@mrsatan6860]

You’re the greatest

[@533lpunit]

What if the water stops right above the tile all the time, doesn’t go lower then that

[@andrewdillard5961]

I busted out laughing when you slowly fell into the pool 😂

[@hesynergy]

Thanks! Chas

[@ghjgmb]

Guy can hold his breath!

[@boostedmaniac]

Wow you can hold your breadth for a long time.

[@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS]

I do ok....you should check out Adam Stearn, Austrailia’s #1 Free Diver. Now that guy can hold his own! (Breath)

[@CoCotheTurtle]

And his width!

[@grasscutter1963]

That was an absolute awesome video 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS]

Thanks Jay!

[@zazarays]

except he didnt dig the line up and figure out why it broke

[@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS]

Pancakebut we’ll go over plumbing repair techniques in another video

[@johnstack4316]

Nice job mister!! Great video , no shitty techno music! I have a question, I'm building my own inground pool and I'm ready to plaster it. I know plastering is tricky but I'm very skilled. There are so many opinions on this subject. I'm willing to pay a consulting fee for the basics in plastering a cement pool. I need to know the surface prep. And what brand of plaster to use and why it's the best. Also application and finishing including brushing. I'm retired and was in the construction trades my whole life. I'm a mason but not a plaster guy. I've talked to my local pool companies and they suck. I live in N.E Washington state so Pools are not popular up here. What I'm building is an indoor inground pool. I purchased a fastlane swim current. The pool is 11 ft x21 ft 5 ft deep. I'm ready to do the coping and waterline tile after that the plastering. I need to know what is the bullet proof plaster and some basic pointers so u don't f this up. I am good at everything I do, I have guardian angel who helps me make cool shit. That's the only explanation I can come up with. I'm willing to pay for some good info. Nobody rides for free baby!

[@angeladambrosio7218]

Please help! We purchased a new pool liner and now use his service at the end of the last season. When the new pool company opened the pool it was almost empty. We never had this problem before. After it was filled the liner was all over the place, wrinkles and pulled away from the sides. He found a hole, repaired it and stretched it. Now, it is still leaking and I notice when you step on edges it doesn't fit against the edges at bottom. I feel like I am walking. on something that is going to tear and am afraid for people to be in the pool and might ruin the liner on top of it still losing water. Now, the pool guy wants us to call a leak detection company at $650 an hour. We will only be reimbursed if it is his fault. The pool guy said it is a leak behind the wall. Yet we didn't have this previously. Can you please tell us what to do? We are desperate

[@LubaLuba1]

An interesting discovery I use to get bubbles in my returns but the other day I was away for a few days so i filled pool up to bottom of the bull nose but above the tile so pretty high up above the mouth of the skimmer. Noticed no bubbles in my returns or in the pumps basket unbelievable but how?

[@kevinmetzger7117]

If you have bubbles in your returns you are sucking in air. If your water level is good and you still have them it is time to more further with the suction side plumbing. The seal on the top of pump, or the joints around before the pump can be a cause. The pipes have a negative pressure so they'll suck in air when pump is running, leak when it is off.