Have you ever had Cousin Rich volunteer to help you find a leak in your pool? He means well. He shows up ready to find it. That is 30 year old air in that 40 year old scuba tank. Cousin Rich was a certified diver a few years ago. He has a syringe full of food coloring and a bottle full standing by. The kids mask and snorkel will work well. Yes that is a gunny sack with small anvils in it. He couldn’t find the old weight belt. The anvils it turns out are not quite enough weight these days to keep Cousin Rich on the bottom. A few added bricks will help. The shoes and socks are a personal option.

Cousin Rich searched for about four hours, in this brand new pool he helped you build. He looked around all the returns, skimmers, lights, the main drains the steps and all over the liner. It was a good effort but no results.

Everyone did have a good laugh at Cousin Rich’s expense and he was a good sport about it, but, the new pool is still leaking over an inch a day. In this pool that is about 500 gallons of water in 24 hours. Not to mention a lot of lost chemicals. Let’s not forget that water is going somewhere under or around the pool adversely affecting the structure of the pool and the surrounding landscaping.

A call to Sneaky Leaks was made. It turns out the leak was about a foot from Cousin Rich’s foot in this picture. We found a tear under a screw in the step seal molding in about 10 minutes, using our State of The Art Leak Trac 2200 Wireless leak detector. We dove into the pool and made the repair. The pool is finally finished and holding water. We were lucky enough to be invited to the “finished the pool” party and the owner shared the story and pictures of Cousin Rich with us. Cousin Rich was nice enough to allow us to use his picture and story. We have heard similar stories of people trying to find a leak themselves, before they call Sneaky Leaks, and thought we would share this one with you.