Just loss 2,000 gallons of water out of my pool!

[Hugh R]

So the trophy wife comes in and asks if I'm draining the pool? WTF? A slip compression union that I haven't given a moments notice to since I bought the place 20 years ago is spewing water. I take a chain wrench and tighten up both ends of it and problem solved. I checked the rubber seals and they're good and pliable, just super loose. Fortunately it just wet the ground. This is going to screw up my pool chemistry, but I've had worse things in my life.



The offending compression fitting.

[Steve Carlton]

Were you using synthetic water?

[id10t]

We had an above ground pool at the house when we moved in. I didn't particularly want a pool, but the house was nice...

A few years later wife and I are out minivan shopping (expecting our 2nd child... an econobox wasn't gonna cut it anymore) in Florida August heat. In the middle of the dealer's lot, I said "be nice to get home and get in the pool" - wife was looking forward to it, being 7 months along...

We get home, and while we were out the pool wall gave out and dumped all 12k gallons of water on our back yard, right over our septic drain field. Fortunately it had been really dry and so a lot of it ran off away from my drain field and it wasn't effected...

[rusnak]

Some people go for the extended warranty. I say trade in. Those trophies get old.

[LakeCleElum]

U on a well or metered City water?

[Jrboulder]

I once blew the top off a DE filter.

[kochtools]

I live in the Phoenix metro area and have a 43,000 gallon pool. Earlier this year, I had a filter failure that resulted in a green pool ... new filter, drain the pool, refill ... 43,000 gallons is about $300 here ... so a loss of 2,000 gallons equates to about $14 (California may be different) ... no big deal!

[john70t]

Originally Posted by kochtools

... no big deal!

yeah but the news said his neighbor's house downhill just slid off the foundation

j/k

[kochtools]

2,000 gallons is equivalent to 0.07 " of rainfall on one acre ... So no big deal considering that Hugh has more land than that

[Steve Carlton]

Hugh's showers use more than 2,000 gallons of water.

[DanielDudley]

I had a client a few years back, and the pool kept overflowing on a daily basis. It turned out that hydro static pressure was pushing a check valve in the bottom of the pool, and ground water was welling up and out. It took a while to figure this out.

Do you have to buy water to refill ?

[sc_rufctr]

"A friend of mine has a trophy wife. But from the looks of her, it wasn't first place"

Steven Wright

[911SauCy]

"The trophy wife comes in..."

PRICELESS LOL

[Hugh R]

City water. No big deal. Doesn't appear to have hurt the pump.

[recycled sixtie]

I notice the leaves in the pool. What was the pool boy doing? Chasing the trophy wife?

On a more serious vein I hope the loss of water does not create a sink hole....

[Hugh R]

I'm the pool boy. Where it blew the fitting it just ran down my driveway.

Lots of oak trees surrounding the pool. Stupid place for a pool, but it was there when I bought the place.

[willtel]

How often do you pool guys refill from loss due to evaporation?

I had a new liner installed this spring but it seems like I always have a hose in the damn thing pumping more water into it.

[T77911S]

i was hoping for pics of the trophy wife

[Hugh R]

In Los Angeles probably 2" a week in the Summer

[willtel]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

In Los Angeles probably 2" a week in the Summer

I definitely have a leak.