ughh… I am getting really tired of this…
One of the things that I loved about this house was the pool.. I never had a pool before and always wanted one…. (well a lake or river would be better of course) anyways… Last week the pool started losing water… I had just passed the vaccum and had to leave the pool quickly because the kids needed me, while doing the vaccum I saw that the water level was high… So I stopped the motor and and unhooked the vaccum quickly and rested it on the side of the pool… when I came back poolside a little while later I noticed that the pool had lost quite a bit of water (a few inches)… I also noticed a hole made in the ground from water… so thought that the vaccum was unplugged to quickly and acted like a syphon taking water out.. so we filled the pool back up… but in the morning the water was back down… so there was something else wrong…
the water return was leaking a bit so I took more water out, changed the water return and filled it back up…. it lost water again…
I though maybe it was a hole in the liner… I got in the pool and went around it looking for the how with a bottle of phenol red (what we use to check the PH of the water)… no holes to be found…
I asked around and got the same suggestion over and over again about the skimmer…. I emptied a bit more water, changed the skimmer gaskets and filled the water back up again…
The water went down again… Now I am at a loss… I think I will have to check for a how again… somthing that is a pretty hard task but somthing that I will have to do… I asked around to see how much a new liner would be and the price plus instalation is in the 600$ range… If it is a hole Having a rapair man come is not worth it as they will not get into the pool to search for a hole… Finding a repairing the hole will set us back about 10$… I better get those goggles on!
At the moment I hate the Pool!
