Pool Leak Detection in Memphis: We Find It, Then We Fix It
Losing water faster than the weather explains? We pressure-test the lines, dye-test the shell and check the equipment pad until we know where the water is going, then our own crew fixes it. No report handed over for somebody else to argue with.
Is it a leak, or is it just July?
A Memphis pool can lose around a quarter inch a day to evaporation in a hot, windy week. Much more than that, or a steady loss in cool weather, is usually a leak. The water bill is the cheap part: a leak under the deck washes out the soil the shell sits on, and a leak at the skimmer can drop the water below the skimmer mouth and let the pump run dry.
The bucket test: free, 24 hours
- Set it up. Put a bucket on the top step and fill it to the same level as the pool. Mark both water lines.
- Wait a day with the pump on its normal schedule, then compare. If the pool dropped more than the bucket, it is a leak.
- Run it again with the pump off. A bigger drop with the pump running points at the pressure side: returns and underground plumbing. A bigger drop with it off points at the shell or the suction side.
- Tell us what you saw and we bring the right test first.
What our techs actually do
- 1. Pressure-test the lines. Each suction and return line is isolated and put under pressure. A sound line holds; a cracked one drops, and how fast it drops says how bad it is.
- 2. Dye-test the shell. Skimmer, main drain, returns, light niche, steps, tile line and any crack you have noticed. Dye pulled into a joint is a leak you can see for yourself.
- 3. Check the equipment pad. Pump seals, filter tank, heater, valves and unions. Some leaks only show while the system is running.
- 4. Tell you plainly. What we found, what the fix involves, and whether it can wait. Small fixes like a fitting, gasket or seal can often be done on the same visit.
The leaks Memphis pools get
Memphis sits on clay that shrinks in a dry summer and swells in a wet fall. Decks, shells and pipes move with it, and the joints between them are where water gets out.
Skimmer-to-shell joint
The deck and the shell move a little every season; the plastic skimmer body does not, and the joint between them opens. A classic on gunite pools built in the 80s and 90s.
Return lines in clay
Rigid PVC under the deck takes the strain as the clay around it dries and swells. These are the leaks nobody can see, and exactly what the pressure test is for.
Light niche and liner seams
When the seal in a light niche fails, water drains slowly through the conduit. On vinyl pools, seams and skimmer or return gaskets fail first, often after a winter with the water left too low.
Think your pool is leaking?
Tell us what the bucket test showed, or that you have not done one yet. We follow up within one business day.
📞 Call (901) 755-3000Found and fixed by the same crew
Most leak specialists hand you a report and leave. Then you call a pool company, who may or may not trust the report, and you pay twice. We are one company. The crew that finds the leak fixes it, and if the leak turns out to be a bigger job, a replaster, new tile and coping or a liner, that is our renovation crew too, not a subcontractor.
- Equipment leaks go to our equipment repair techs: pumps, filters, heaters, valves.
- Keep it from coming back with weekly service: the same tech sees the water line every week and catches the next drop early.
- Close it right in the fall. Water left too low over winter is how liner gaskets fail; see pool opening and closing.
Pool leak questions we get asked
Serving Memphis & the Mid-South
West Tennessee and North Mississippi — from two convenient locations.
Two Convenient Locations
Brighton, TN 38011
Bartlett, TN 38134
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a leak?
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