Pender and Onslow Counties
Pool leak detection in Surf City
Leak Locators East Coast serves Surf City and the rest of Topsail Island. A pool on a barrier island is no harder to diagnose, but a return trip is harder because every visit means crossing a bridge. For that reason, each visit is planned to settle the question the first time. We test the shell and each plumbing line separately until the leak is located rather than guessed at, and none of that requires opening anything.
Method
How the leak is located
Most of the work is done with acoustic listening and line-by-line pressure testing. Pressure testing rules a line out as clearly as it identifies a leaking one. On an island job, ruling lines out helps avoid a return visit, because you finish knowing which line is responsible, not which one might be.
A Surf City visit covers these steps, in order.
Detect
We confirm the pool is losing water and rule out evaporation. Then we isolate each plumbing line and pressure-test it; a line that will not hold pressure is the one with the problem.
Locate
Acoustic listening equipment narrows the leak down to one point along the line, and we mark the surface above it. Nothing is opened to find the leak.
Repair
The repair needs only a small opening at the marked point. If you schedule it with us, the same crew that found the leak makes the repair, and your written report covers what was tested, found and fixed.
Our services in Surf City
Select a service to see how the work is done.
- Inground Pool Leak Detection
- For concrete, gunite and fiberglass pools. We find where the pool is losing water before any repair is chosen.
- Above-Ground Pool Leak Detection
- For above-ground pools: the liner and its bead track, the skimmer and return connections, the hoses and the equipment.
- Inground Vinyl Liner Leak Detection
- For inground pools with a vinyl liner: the liner, its seams, its fittings and the buried plumbing behind it.
- Commercial Pool Leak Detection
- For HOA, hotel and community pools, with written findings a board can use.
- Spa Leak Detection
- Finding where a spa is losing water, including a spa that may be draining into the pool.
- Commercial Pool Repair
- Repairing located leaks on HOA, apartment and hotel pools, scheduled around pool use.
- Inground Pool Leak Repair
- We repair leaks in inground pools, using the smallest opening that will do the job.
- Vinyl Liner Pool Leak Repair
- Repairing tears, seams, bead track and fitting leaks in vinyl liner pools. We do not replace full liners.
- Spa Leak Repair
- Repairing the leaks we find in spas, quoted free once we know what is broken.
- Pool Inspections
- An independent, written assessment of the pool, including before a home purchase.
- Pool Resurfacing
- Replacing a pool surface that has failed, rather than coating over it.
- Pool Painting
- Repainting and coating an existing pool surface, without replacing it.
Service area
Coverage
Surf City spans Pender and Onslow counties on Topsail Island, roughly midway between Wilmington and Jacksonville. Topsail Beach and Hampstead are also confirmed service areas. A travel fee applies to locations 45 minutes or more from Wilmington, North Carolina. The amount depends on the distance, so call or text for a quote.
Nearby areas and services
Do you serve Topsail Island?
Yes. Surf City, Topsail Beach and the rest of the island are confirmed service areas.
Can you find the leak in one visit?
That is what each visit is planned to do, and testing each system separately makes it realistic. A pool with more than one problem can take longer, and we will tell you so rather than rush the work.
The pool is unused most of the week. Does that matter?
If anything, it helps. A pool that no one is swimming in loses water mainly through the leak, which gives a clearer reading than a pool that loses water to splashing and is topped up every day.
Do you have to open the deck to find it?
No. Locating the leak is non-invasive. Anything that needs to be opened is part of the repair, and only after the source is known.
Tell us about your pool in Surf City.
Tell us what you are seeing, and we will explain what it may mean and what a visit would involve.