Could the Water Seeping Into My Basement Be From a Pool Leak in My Charlottesville Home?

7/12/2022 (Permalink)

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If your swimming pool is leaking, you could be wasting thousands of gallons of water each month and weakening your home’s foundation. Our local team in Charlottesville offers these tips from the Environmental Protection Agency to determine if your pool is leaking:

• Grab a clear container and a marker
• During the test period, turn off the pool auto-fill, do not manually add water to the pool, and avoid splashing water out of the pool
• Put the container on the pool steps and mark the water level on the outside of the container
• Now, fill the container with pool water up to the mark you just made so the levels match
• Mark the water level inside the container
• Now, wait and give evaporation time to work, usually two to three days. If it rains or is windy, you’ll have to perform the test again.
• Place the container on the pool steps. If the water in the pool is lower than the water in the container, you have a leak
• If both the pool level and the container water levels are the same, you do not have a leak

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