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mckool
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Comments (3)Here's how to tell where the leak is fill the pond, Do not turn on the pump. If the water level goes down the leak is in the liner it will drop right to where the leak is. If no water leaks out without the pump on. Then the leak is in the waterfall or the skimmer box. I've used this method many times it's a proven technique. It works everytime. If you like my ideas check out my blog. Here is a link that might be useful: Gabelmans Gardens...See MoreUnderwater liner repair? Help!!
Comments (4)A proper patch requires materials specific to the material your liner is made out of. Each manufacturer defines these materials and the correct application method. They all require a clean dry liner. Beyond that I've seen people post all kinds of goops to fix leaks underwater. From poly foam to epoxy to silicone to tar stuff. The list is pretty much anything. That's the internet. For mud bottom ponds bentonite clay is sometimes used effectively to slow water loss. I wouldn't exactly say it makes a pond water tight, but often good enough. So I guess the clay could get behind the liner and seal the soil. Could cause your liner to float. I certainly wouldn't recommend it for a small backyard type pond. Just passing along the info. So imo there isn't anything that would seal a liner hole that works underwater and is even somewhat reliable....See MorePond (POOL) leak.
Comments (1)Hi Joe, I tried to respond once to this and got a spam alert. I wanted to send you a link from another site. I will send it by email. The product that is considered safe for use in repairing liners is called vulkem. You put a gob of it on a piece of liner and place it over your leak. Your bakki filter sounds awesome! I almost made one once. Karen...See MoreNeed help finding a leak in liner pond.
Comments (14)A plank across the pond can make it easier to search awkward places, saving a dunk in the water ahah, remembered a few more techniques for finding leaks... Let the water level drop below the leak, wait for a very dry period of weather, go look by day and by night for little tiny beads of moisture showing up on dry areas of the liner where soil moisture is moving through small punctures. You can spot pinhole leaks easier when the liner is very dry while the soil behind is quite damp. During Summer, its not unusual to see tiny trails of debris trickling from punctures on a dry liner, ants find every tiny hole convenient for tipping out little particles of excavated soil as they extend their tunneling. Rodents can be an occasional source of leaks, where in hard winters they cannot find water in frozen ground, they tunnel up to the liner and peck through the liner usually in out of sight places, beneath overhanging clumps of grass, folds in the liner... As their holes cause the water levels to drop, they bite new holes at another location lowering the water level further. Where you can look behind the liner will indicate if their are rodents, you might anticipate several leaks along where those tunnels run after a hard freezing Winter. Moles do the tunneling, mice move in and bite at liners...See Morewaterbug_guy
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