Lee County, Florida
Pool Leak Detection and Repair in Bonita Springs, FL
If you live in Bonita Springs and have a pool that is losing water and you cannot see why, you are not imagining it, and you are not alone. Maybe the pool guy shrugged, or the top-offs stopped matching what the summer should be costing you. That is the mystery we solve. Aqua Leak Detection works out of Nokomis, up in Sarasota County, and has been finding and fixing hidden pool leaks across Southwest Florida since 2003. Bonita Springs is one of our 25 cities. We will tell you exactly where the water is going, and what it will take to stop it.
Is it really a leak, or just a Florida summer?
Plenty of the calls we take turn out not to be leaks at all. In this heat a pool loses real water to plain evaporation, and an autofill can disguise either answer: it quietly keeps the level looking normal whether your pool is healthy or bleeding water underground, so the first sign you get is the water bill. Before you spend a dollar, do what we would do first.
The bucket test. Free, tonight, no tools.
- Fill a bucket with pool water and set it on a pool step, so it sits in the same sun and the same air as the pool.
- Mark the water level inside the bucket, and mark the pool's level on the outside.
- Turn off the autofill, and read both marks 24 hours later.
The bucket and the pool evaporate at the same rate. If the pool has dropped clearly further than the bucket, the difference is not evaporation. That is water leaving your pool, and it is time to call us. If the two marks track together, you have a Florida summer, not a leak, and you just saved yourself a service visit. Not sure what you are looking at? Call anyway. What we can tell you is that we would rather talk you out of a visit than book one you do not need.
What a pool leak usually turns out to be (and not be)
The picture in most owners' heads is a cracked shell and a jackhammered deck.
In our experience, the dramatic crack in the floor is the rare one. What we see on these calls is that the leak is usually small and usually on the plumbing side, at a fitting, a joint, a skimmer throat or a light niche, and usually nowhere near the spot the owner has been staring at.
Small also means findable without destruction. We pressure test the plumbing to prove which lines hold and which do not, and we use acoustic listening equipment to hear water escaping underground. Nothing gets opened on a hunch, because the guess is expensive and the test is not. You get the answer, and the exact cost of the fix, before any repair work begins.
What we see in Bonita Springs
We have been finding pool leaks in Southwest Florida since 2003. More than 100,000 of them. What follows is not research. It is ours.
Bonita Springs manages its water on purpose.
Digging canals and channelizing waterways actually lowered the shallow water table across much of this area.
On the Kehl Canal, a weir was installed in the mid-1990s, specifically to raise the water table back up.
What we can tell you is that managed water is still water. Whether the table under your lot runs high or low that month, a pool leak does not announce itself on the surface, and we never diagnose one from the grass.
The housing here is modern.
The median Bonita Springs home dates to 1998.
Almost 9 in 10 of the city's homes went up in 1980 or later.
In our experience, new does not mean sealed. Fittings, returns and light niches lose water in young pools too, and the year on the deed has never once told us where.
The city's own plan says some older Bonita communities were built with no real surface water management at all.
What we see on these calls is that a yard that holds rain is a yard that hides evidence. Standing water tells you about drainage. It does not tell you about your pool. The pressure test tells you about your pool.
What happens when you call Aqua Leak Detection?
We work like investigators, because that is what finding a hidden leak actually takes. Our whole process follows what we call the Private I's: Investigate, Identify, Inform.
Investigate.
We inspect your pool as a complete system, from the tile line to the bottom drain; from the skimmers and returns back to the equipment. Using methods like pressure testing to isolate the plumbing, along with acoustic listening devices to hear water escaping underground, we gather evidence before we draw any conclusions. No guessing, and no tearing up your deck on a hunch.
Identify.
Once the evidence is in, we pinpoint the exact location and cause of the leak. Our 23-plus years in Southwest Florida let us catch the issues that others walk right past.
Inform.
We call you on the way to your property, and we call you with results before we leave. You get a clear explanation of what we found, what it will take to fix it, and what it will cost, laid out before any work begins, and a written report with photos lands in your email for your records. No surprises.
...using a proven process of elimination to find every leak, not just the obvious one...
The practical part, since Bonita Springs is the far south of our range: we book the drive with the job, and the visit is scheduled, not squeezed. A detection visit typically runs 1.5 to 3 hours, and if the first slot of the day works best for you, 8:00am to 9:00am is offered and guaranteed.
What it costs, and how we handle the money
The detection visit is a flat rate, and it covers the dive test, the pressure test, and same-day epoxy patchwork at no extra charge. Larger repairs are a separate quote, and that quote reaches you before any repair work begins, so you decide with the number in front of you. If a repair lands at a bad time, we offer financing through Wisetack, so a surprise leak does not have to be a surprise expense. And the guarantee is a promise in plain words: we will continue working on your pool until it is leak free. Leaks are what we do. We are not a general pool-cleaning company that also dabbles in leaks, which is how the work holds 4.9 stars across more than 2,200 reviews.
Bonita Springs pool leak questions, answered
We are near the beach side of town. Does salt air matter for a pool?
The city genuinely fronts both Estero Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
Bonita Beach sits inside the city's own limits.
What we can tell you is that where you sit changes how we look, not what we find: leaks here live at fittings and fixtures like everywhere else, and the test finds them regardless of the postcard.
Our home is from the 2000s. Why would a pool this new lose water?
The Census counts 9,389 Bonita Springs homes built between 2000 and 2009.
In our experience, a pool built in the 2000s is old enough to lose water and new enough that the owner is the last to suspect it. Fittings, returns and light niches do not read the year on the deed, and neither do we.
So run the bucket test. If your pool drops more than the bucket does over the same stretch, the water is leaving somewhere it should not, and that is when to call us.
Our older neighborhood floods every summer. Is that why the pool is dropping?
The city's watershed plan is blunt about it: some older communities here have no real surface water management to speak of.
What we see on these calls is that a yard that floods is a yard that hides a leak instead of showing one. Standing water tells you the ground is wet. It tells you nothing about where your pool water is going.
The honest answer is that nobody can tell from the surface. Run the bucket test; if the pool loses more than the bucket, the water is going somewhere it should not, and we will find where.
Will you have to dig up my deck or my yard?
Not on a hunch, and usually not at all for the finding. We prove the location with pressure testing and listening equipment first. If the repair itself means opening something, you will know exactly where, exactly why, and exactly what it costs before anyone touches it.
My autofill runs constantly. Is that a leak?
What we can tell you is that a constantly running autofill is how a lot of real leaks first announce themselves, and it is also exactly what a hot dry stretch looks like. The fill hides the evidence either way. Turn it off, run the bucket test above, and let the marks tell you which one you have.
What does the visit actually look like?
We call you on the way, the visit typically runs 1.5 to 3 hours, and you get the finding, the exact cost of the fix, and a written report with photos by email before any repair work begins.
If a repair is needed, you are already with the team that does it. Aqua Leak Detection handles the full range of pool leak work in Bonita Springs:
- Pool Leak Detection
- Pool Leak Repair
- Pre-Sale Pool Inspections
- Line Clearing
- Pipe Elimination: Cut and Cap
- Light Fixture Replacement
- VGB Compliant Main Drain Cover Installation
One call, one specialist, from the first question to the last repair.
Ready to find your Bonita Springs pool leak?
You should not have to stand there guessing where your water is going. Call Aqua Leak Detection. We will find it, show you exactly where it is, and price the repair before we touch anything.
Phone
(941) 270-6138Office
121 Triple Diamond Blvd UNIT 13, Nokomis, FL 34275
Hours
Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 4:00pm