Pool Leak Repair - How To Check Your Skimmer For A Leak

okay in this video I'm going to help you try to check your skimmer for leaks okay and a lot of people actually have leaking skimmers and they have no idea that this is even happening and if you have not subscribed to the channel and you like videos like this please subscribe to the channel and please also hit that like button and I would appreciate it thank you so what you're going to do is you're going to visually look into your skimmer after you have the basket taken out you're going to make sure your waters off and you know turn your pump off and what you're going to be looking for is a crack hairline cracks anywhere on the bottom circle down there or on the sides okay if you find one it's not a big deal what you're gonna do is you're going to use this product right here this right here is a syringe that you can get at the pool store and it comes filled with it with actual dye and so essentially all you're gonna do is you're gonna test it you're gonna squirt a little bit near the actual crack or in any type of hole and if you see it actually leaking it's simple all you're gonna do is you're going to grab some of the pool epoxy this one right here I've already used quite a bit of it but you're going to take equal parts of both of them and you're going to you know just put it in your hand and get it to a consistency it's going to be basically the same that's a certain color and it'll tell you on the directions and then you're just going to let's just pretend it's on the side right here you're going to just take it and you're going to just push it on there it's going to dry underwater works very well and that will solve the issue of the leak if you have a leak and it's right there at the pipe that actually connects to the skimmer then that's a different that's going to be a different story most of the time it's hard to actually epoxy that so in that case you would actually have to possibly get this whole skimmer replaced so just wanted to give this quick tip in case you may think that you know you have a leak and you don't know where it is this is one of the places that I check and that's the this is my leak master they sell them at the pool stores and then here's the two-part arrest and resin and hardener all right well I appreciate everybody watching this and I'll see you in my next video

Channel: Clearly Seen

Views: 22,425

Rating: 4.6666665 out of 5

Keywords: Pool Leak Repair, Skimmer leak repair, pool skimmer leak, pool leak detection

Id: tBVLShKQZ5I

Length: 2min 44sec (164 seconds)

Published: Mon May 18 2020