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 4 года назад

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 Год назад

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 5 лет назад

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

@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS 5 лет назад

Me even though I lived it.

@CrazyRiGuy 5 лет назад

Swimming Pool Science ya lol

@MrNeptunebob 5 лет назад

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

@FlyGuy2000 5 лет назад

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

@skyforce2132 5 лет назад

I’m about to have a pool

@DaveInTrinity 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

It certainly does!

@markhemann5998 8 месяцев назад

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

@eeandersen 4 года назад

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

@ThinkerOnTheBus 3 года назад

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

@MooShaka89 5 лет назад

I came here because RU-vid put it on my feed. Watched the whole thing.

@06Kabal 5 лет назад

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 4 года назад

You’re right, I didn’t even notice.

@djh254 4 года назад

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

@ACommenterOnYouTube 4 года назад

he was under for 1 minute ..

@kbartbme 4 года назад

I totally noticed. :)

@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS 4 года назад

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..

@ahmedkamel5166 10 месяцев назад

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

@ronnyc8251 5 лет назад

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 5 лет назад

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

@maddmann 5 лет назад

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

@hectormeza991 2 года назад

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 10 месяцев назад

Six or seven months of pool weather?

@OfentseMwaseFilms 2 года назад

Great video

@jagdishkrishnamurthy4867 10 месяцев назад

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@bflippsytrance 3 года назад

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

@MucaroBoricua 5 лет назад

Great video! Good information delivered in an entertaining way.

@Machine311 5 лет назад

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

@jaimequintero6950 2 года назад

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

@josephalexis6378 4 года назад

Powerful instruction. Thank you.

@scottrobbins6216 4 года назад

I have a pool so I watched this for useful information

@brendabass621 Год назад

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

@soneeeee4440 4 года назад

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?

@WHOMEWHOYOU 5 лет назад

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 5 лет назад

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.

@dekebell3307 3 года назад

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

@AidanSkoyles 2 года назад

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

@mariuszklimach4953 4 года назад

Great video Josh, opened my eyes wider...

@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS 4 года назад

Thanks man!

@educatedbeats6604 5 лет назад

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

@RandomAwesomeism 3 года назад

Thank you for the warning about phenol

@Astamou10 2 года назад

Thank you so much Josh for your great information.

@pondguynorcal8337 Год назад

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 ??

@dontworryaboutit5989 4 года назад

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.

@augustbeach824 Месяц назад

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

@steveweber2436 Год назад

Thanks. Informative AND entertaining.

@bobl1090 2 года назад

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

@toms8483 5 лет назад

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 5 лет назад

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 Год назад

Decaf or regular? 😃

@rcmodelr Год назад

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.

@CitizenPerkins 4 года назад

Great tips! Thank you!

@TwinHomeExperts 4 года назад

GREAT VID!

@reddeath5011 4 года назад

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

@frankwiddifield7520 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

And he does put it in his mouth while underwater!

@sajmv 4 года назад

Great Video. Thanks for the ideas!

@kansai9685 4 года назад

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

@MrTomZeus 3 месяца назад

Great idea! I love this video!

@cf9017 4 года назад

Awesome video brother....thank you.

@catatonicable 4 месяца назад

Lovely, trying it now..Thank You

@rb8098 4 года назад

Great video and funny! Thanks!

@stefanp5908 4 года назад

Great Video! Thank youz for the information

@geraldkyle5819 5 лет назад

Thank you. This is helpful to me.

@greatgazoo01 2 года назад

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

@Twotontessie 2 года назад

Excellent video thanks.

@YouTubestopsharingmyrealname 5 лет назад

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 5 лет назад

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

@MarcusAurelius33036 4 года назад

"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.

@rcak2009 5 лет назад

This was very helpful...

@MikeKTOL 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

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

@starrhardin4790 3 года назад

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

@1975MGB 10 месяцев назад

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

@bonnieparker1238 3 года назад

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!

@LubaLuba1 4 года назад

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.

@warrenibbotson3126 3 года назад

Helpful..Thank you!

@PlumbingExplained 5 лет назад

Solid info bruh.

@zlopezf 3 года назад

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

@barrymonroy7138 5 лет назад

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

@ACommenterOnYouTube 4 года назад

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

@barrymonroy7138 4 года назад

@@ACommenterOnRU-vid No... it just gangster ...

@ACommenterOnYouTube 4 года назад

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

@barrymonroy7138 4 года назад

@@ACommenterOnRU-vid What flu...

@ACommenterOnYouTube 4 года назад

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

@ellkir1521 3 года назад

Nice. Good job!

@cuervovallejo2711 4 года назад

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.

@johnnybravo-ir3ev 4 года назад

Do yall ever work on vinyl pools?

@tomjones4145 4 года назад

Great video / thank you

@Wertyhappy27 3 года назад

I really want to see a pool repair now

@sajidrafique375 4 года назад

Best video..let me go buy some dyes

@AvaRose00 12 дней назад

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…

@TW-ud6sb Год назад

Well done!!

@mgpvii 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

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

@simplysarah0310 Год назад

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 9 месяцев назад

And it worked! Love that putty stuff!

@cardo1111 3 года назад

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?

@scottfranco1962 2 года назад

Not bad. Got yourself a subscriber.

@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS 2 года назад

Glad to have you on board Scott!

@LubaLuba1 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

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.

@texyat7388 24 дня назад

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

@marilynhaughton1955 5 лет назад

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

@boondogglers9512 3 года назад

THANK YOU for this video! might save me 400$

@MrZen-gl4pg 4 года назад

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.

@duduzeralima2467 Год назад

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 ?

@phartsdust 2 года назад

thanks

@533lpunit 2 года назад

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

@pegg1258 2 года назад

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

@lazkes9912 5 лет назад

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

@deependfrank Год назад

good video, good info

@rosemarydouglass3744 4 года назад

that was brilliant ---- I can do that

@mattaboy10 3 года назад

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 2 года назад

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

@garyinmarz8938 3 года назад

Thanks

@simondalton8295 4 месяца назад

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

@wudgee Год назад

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.

@weslegna 4 года назад

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

@josefran2004 4 года назад

Thx, all is good

@mrsatan6860 3 года назад

You’re the greatest

@annieslat9214 3 года назад

How bout how to fix the leak

@danielyeroshalmi7492 4 года назад

but u wouldent know which one went down

@staypositives6388 3 года назад

How to fix it

@MrEnigmapaul Год назад

The dye kit is not (quickly) available in Canada. Is there any other kind of dye that could be found locally?

@jaywojack5124 Год назад

Food coloring

@grapplerguy2007 Год назад

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

@yinadia 4 года назад

Wow very interesting!!

@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS 3 года назад

Those are the only kinds of videos we make.

@waynebauerband7698 3 года назад

where did u get the long hypo to dye check for leaks??? lmk thanx

@SwimmingPoolAZ-SPS 3 года назад

There’s a link in the description to purchase one

@dadillac5075 2 года назад

Very helpful Josh, thank you. But how the heck did you stay under the water? I kept floating back upward. LOL

@tanyamcneill1793 2 года назад

He had on a weight belt. Personally, I used my husband’s 25lb dumbbell (rubberized) sitting next to the drain, so I could go down and grab onto that with one hand while I used the screwdriver with the other hand! lol

@hesynergy 5 лет назад

Thanks! Chas

@PatrickCamblin 4 года назад

Holy Smokes! While you did say earlier in the video to turn off the pump, it'd be a great safety tip at 8:20 to remind viewers to MAKE SURE THE PUMP IS OFF BEFORE REMOVING THE MAIN DRAIN COVER.

@frankwiddifield7520 4 года назад

Main drain in residential pools are a non issue, they are equalized at the skimmer. VGB was implemented based on a accident that happened in a hot tub.

@frankwiddifield7520 4 года назад

But worse case scenario, natural selection is how we got this far... I love darwin...

@Saskia-uz4ds 2 года назад

Damn, you can hold your breath forever man!

@1975MGB 10 месяцев назад

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.