Performing a Swimming Pool Leak Detection Dye Test by Your Own

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Performing a Swimming Pool Leak Detection Dye
Test by Your Own
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Content

• Introduction
• How People Understood the Dye Test?
• Check Suspected Area
• Spray Dye
• Detect the Leaky Place

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Introduction

• Keep your pool clean and maintaining it in a
  proper way can make you and your family to be
  happy.
• If you have identified that your swimming pool
  loses more water than normal, then probably it
  may have leaks.
• In this situation, you need to detect the leak
  places and repair it as soon as possible.
• Dye test is a quick and easy method to find out
  swimming pool leak by your own.

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How People Understood the Dye Test?

• Most of the people doesnt aware about the
  concept of dye test.
• Many of them believe that the swimming pool dye
  test is, you put the dye liquid in the pool and
  somehow it detect the leaks.
• But, this is not an actual way to conduct a dye
  test and to perform a dye test, you should
  purchase the required equipment.

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Check Suspected Area

• Before starting a dye test, you should manually
  check the suspected leak area in your pool.
• For example, if you suspected that water is
  escaping from the liner of your pool underwater,
  then it is best place to start dye test from this
  area.
• Fittings, skimmers, returns, cleaner line,
  lights, steps and the corners are the commonly
  suspected areas of the pool.

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Spray Dye

• You should need special dye, applicator syringe,
  red liquid and dropper bottle to conduct this
  swimming pool leak detection method.
• After confirming the suspected area, you need to
  spray four to five drops of dye (red food
  coloring) directly adjacent to the area where you
  suspect the leak is.
• You should do this process all the suspected area
  in your swimming pool.

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Detect the Leaky Place

• After spraying the dye, you should wait a few
  minutes to see the water slowly move in the pool.
  If there is any leak in your pool, then the red
  dye will pull into the leak.
• The larger leak in your pool, you can see the dye
  is being pulled into the leak.
• This is the best way of performing a swimming
  pool leak detection dye test around the skimmer
  and light gaskets.