Think your pool is losing water?

So you think your pool is losing water? Try the bucket test!!

If you routinely need to add more than two inchs of water to your pool per week, you may have a leak.Your pool will lose some water naturally to evaporation, some to splash out, backwashing your filter, water feratures and slides.

The bucket test: Place a bucket filled with pool water on a pool step (weight it with a rock or brick). Mark the water level on both the inside and the outside of the bucket. Make sure the water levels are the same inside the bucket as the pool water level outside the bucket. Check the mark 24 hours later. If there's a greater drop in the line on the outside of the bucket, a leak in the pool is indicated. This test needs to be conducted with the pump on, then again with the pump off.