Pool Leak Detection & Repair in the Fox Valley, IL
Find the leak, not the whole deck. Pressure testing and dye tracing pinpoint it before anyone digs.
Aqua Vida Custom Pools finds and repairs pool leaks throughout the Fox Valley: Geneva, St. Charles, Batavia, and surrounding Illinois towns. If your pool loses more than about a quarter inch a day beyond normal evaporation, you likely have a leak. We pressure-test the plumbing to isolate the failing line, then use dye testing and electronic listening equipment to pinpoint the spot, so excavation happens only where the leak actually is. Leaks are worth chasing down before winter: escaping water washes soil out from behind walls and under decking, and freeze-thaw turns that into a structural repair.
What's Included
- Confirming the leak with a bucket test and water-loss rate
- Pressure testing each plumbing line to isolate the failure
- Dye testing at skimmers, returns, lights, and liner seams
- Electronic listening to pinpoint underground leaks
- Targeted excavation and plumbing repair where needed
- Liner patching or replacement recommendation
Quoted per pool
Detection is quoted based on pool size and equipment layout; repair is quoted once we know what and where the leak is. You approve the repair cost before work starts.
Questions? Call (630) 390-5732 or email contact@avcpools.com.
Pool Leak Detection Across the Fox Valley
Based in Geneva, IL. Serving pool owners throughout Kane and DuPage counties.
Pool Leak Detection FAQs
Answers to the questions Fox Valley pool owners ask us most.
Fill a bucket with pool water, set it on a step so it sits at the same temperature, and mark the water level inside the bucket and on the pool wall. Turn the autofill off. After 24 hours, compare: if the pool dropped noticeably more than the bucket, evaporation is not your problem.
The skimmer throat is the most common spot, where the plastic separates from the concrete or liner. After that: the light niche and its conduit, return fittings, plumbing lines running under the deck, liner seams at steps and corners, and the equipment pad itself. A leak that only happens while the pump runs is usually pressure-side plumbing.
Yes, that is the point of proper detection. We pressure-test the lines to isolate which one is failing, then use dye testing and electronic listening equipment to pinpoint the spot. Excavation, if it is needed at all, happens only where the leak actually is instead of across the whole deck.
Yes. Beyond the water and heat you are paying for, constant makeup water keeps chemistry off balance, and water escaping underground washes soil out from behind pool walls and beneath the deck. That is how an inexpensive plumbing repair turns into a structural one. An autofill will happily hide the problem while it gets worse.
No. A leak that goes into the winter keeps working on a saturated, undermined base through every freeze-thaw cycle, and you open in spring to a bigger problem than you closed with. Find it now, fix it while the ground is workable.