Swimming Pool Heater Leaking Water

Refer to your pool heater owner s manual.

Swimming pool heater leaking water. Make sure that the heater gas valve is in the on position and if lp propane is being used check the gauge on the tank. Matt i bought a house with a smaller in ground pool approx 15 x 30 3 5 shallow 5 deep that has a gas powered raypak p r206a en c. Turn off the heat pump and all the other pool equipment. My pool does the same thing.

Heater is 9 years old worked great last summer would heat the pool to temp in an hour or so with very warm almost hot water pumped into the pool. I get called often for leaks around the equipment area and in a lot of cases it is simply the winterizing plug in the pool heater or sometimes in the pool pump. Leaking water from or near a pool filter can have more than one cause. Buy the kung fu maintenance e bo.

Once dry keep the heater off and turn all of your other pool equipment back on. The water travels underground to the mechanical room where it passes through the pump strainer basket and is then pushed through the filter and heater as well as any other peripherals such as chlorinators. Let the area dry out so everything is completely dry. The check valve that prevents the water from flowing back to the lower level of water in the pool is leaking.

It s important to exactly where the leaks origin is. This method will help source leaks from all of your pool equipment. The pool heater heat exchanger may be leaking because of chemical or sanitizer damage. Leaking water the final way that water gets out of your pool is that it is escaping the system somewhere.

For the price of a specialty hot water hose you can heat a small above ground pool and more than adequately heat an inflatable pool. Kung fu maintenance demonstrates how to repair a water leaking swimming pool or spa heater heat exchanger. Final round 3 ko. Leak can cause the pool water.

The leak could be the filter the union on the pump side or the union or valve on the return side. The heater is leaking water. Water is pulled through the skimmer and main drains in the swimming pool by the pool pump. If the leak seems minor and is little more than a drip check for any.

The jacuzzi s water level is about 6 higher than the pool water so when the pump shuts off the water from the jacuzzi siphons back thru the check valve and into the pool.