Lee County, Florida
Pool Leak Detection and Repair in Lehigh Acres, FL
If you live in Lehigh Acres 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 hose has become a routine, or the level keeps falling while everything else about the pool looks fine. That is the mystery we solve. Aqua Leak Detection works out of Nokomis, up in Sarasota County, and Lehigh Acres is one of the 25 Southwest Florida cities we cover. We have been finding and fixing hidden pool leaks in this part of the state since 2003. 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 Lehigh Acres
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.
The highest area in Lee County is in the southern part of Lehigh Acres, where altitudes range from 30 to 35 feet above mean sea level. This is the high ground of the county, not low water.
The water Lehigh Acres actually touches is a canal system that runs inland. The district here maintains 311 miles of canals, with 66 water control structures, and those canals and 20 lakes flow into the Caloosahatchee River through four outfalls: the Orange River, Bedman Creek, Hickeys Creek and Carlos Waterway.
What we can tell you is that high and inland does not buy a pool much. Where a town sits changes how we look. It does not change what we find.
Lehigh Acres was divided into some 152,000 quarter acre and half acre lots for housing, along over 1,400 miles of roads.
The median Lehigh Acres home was built in 2003. That is the median year built from the American Community Survey's 2024 one year estimates for the Lehigh Acres CDP.
In our experience, that platting history is why your neighbor's pool tells you almost nothing about yours. Two houses on one street can be forty years apart. We test the pool in front of us.
Most of Lehigh Acres is mantled by a thin stratum of fine to medium grain quartz sand.
The uppermost water bearing formation here is the water table aquifer. It is that sand, plus the sandy and silty limestone of the Caloosahatchee Marl underneath it where the two are hydraulically connected, and the sand is highly permeable.
What we see on these calls is that quick sand swallows evidence. Water that escapes a line here goes down, not sideways, and nothing shows at the surface. The level line and the pressure test are the honest witnesses.
What we can tell you is that every one of those calls has ended at the plumbing, not at the ground giving way.
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 Lehigh Acres is deep in Lee County: we book the drive with the job. 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.
Lehigh Acres pool leak questions, answered
We are nowhere near the coast. Why is the pool acting like the ones on the coast?
Lehigh Acres is bordered on the west by the city of Fort Myers, the Lee county seat, and it extends east to the Hendry County line. Fort Myers sits between Lehigh Acres and the water.
Being inland has never kept a pool from losing water. We look the same way here as anywhere, and the ground a town sits on does not change what we find.
The house next door is thirty years older than ours. Whose pool problems apply to us?
Housing here spans every decade. Of 48,207 units, 19,657 went up between 2000 and 2009, but there are also 6,527 from the 1990s, 5,474 from the 1970s, 5,394 from the 2010s, 4,660 from the 1980s, and 4,374 built in 2020 or later.
So whose problems apply to you? Only your own pool's. We test the pool in front of you, not the neighborhood around it.
Are the canals here salty like Cape Coral's?
Before development, this was pine flatwoods and freshwater wetland, flat and poorly drained, and a network of deep drainage canals was built to drain it north to the Caloosahatchee River. It is a freshwater drainage system.
No. Different water, same method when a pool is losing it: test, prove, then fix.
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 Lehigh Acres:
- 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 solve your Lehigh Acres pool leak?
Stop watching the water line drop and wondering where it is going. Run the bucket test tonight, or let us skip you straight to the answer. Call Aqua Leak Detection and put a 23 plus year Southwest Florida specialist on it.
Phone
(941) 270-6138Office
121 Triple Diamond Blvd UNIT 13, Nokomis, FL 34275
Hours
Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 4:00pm