Lee County, Florida
Pool Leak Detection and Repair in North Fort Myers, FL
If you live in North Fort Myers 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 back yard stays soggy long after the rain quits, and now the pool level is sliding too. 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. North Fort Myers 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 North Fort Myers
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.
North Fort Myers soils carry a semi confining layer called hardpan, generally one to three feet below the surface, and the county's own surface water study found that rainy season runoff collects on top of it and saturates the soil.
Rain here averages about 54 inches a year, and around 70 percent of it arrives between late May and the middle of October.
What we see on these calls is that a yard that never dries is the perfect place for a leak to hide. Everything feels wet, so nothing looks wrong. The bucket test cuts through that in a day.
Two decades built most of this town. Of 29,288 housing units in North Fort Myers, 8,560 went up between 1980 and 1989 and 6,501 between 1970 and 1979. Another 4,753 followed in the 1990s, and 2,134 date back to the 1960s. Those counts come from the American Community Survey, its 2024 five year release.
In our experience, the year on the deed tells us where to start listening, never what we will find. Original 1970s work can hold tight while something a decade old is quietly bleeding at a return.
North Fort Myers fronts the Caloosahatchee River. The town sits on the banks of it, with over 10 miles of water frontage.
People will tell you this is sinkhole country. The state does not say that about this town. Query the Florida Geological Survey's sinkhole favorability map at North Fort Myers coordinates and the pixel comes back as value 1.
In that map's own attribute table, value 1 is the class named Least favorable. It is the lowest rating the state issues for sinkhole formation.
And the state's Subsidence Incident Reports database counts 11 incidents in all of Lee County.
What we can tell you is that neither the river nor the rumors find leaks. Fittings, returns and light niches is where the water goes, and testing is how it gets found.
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 North Fort Myers is across the river on our Lee County runs: 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.
North Fort Myers pool leak questions, answered
Our yard stays wet half the year. How would we ever spot a pool leak?
The surficial aquifer under North Fort Myers is unconfined and sits at or near the land surface, running to a depth of about 150 feet.
So a wet yard here is normal for half the year, and it hides a slow leak beautifully. That is what the bucket test on this page is for: it weighs the pool against the weather instead of reading the grass.
The house is from 1978. Is the pool plumbing done for?
A 1978 build is in plenty of company here. The American Community Survey counts 6,501 North Fort Myers homes built in the 1970s and another 8,560 in the 1980s.
So plenty of North Fort Myers pools are the same age as yours, and none of that decides the question by itself. The deck cannot tell you whether the pool is holding water. A pressure test can, and that is the one we run first.
Is this sinkhole country?
What we can tell you is that the sinkhole worry is the one people raise first here, and in all these calls it has never once been the answer. The famous scares belong to other counties. A North Fort Myers pool that is losing water is losing it at a fitting, a return or a light niche, until a test says otherwise.
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 North Fort Myers:
- 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 North Fort Myers pool leak?
You do not have to keep topping it off and guessing. Call Aqua Leak Detection and we will come and find out where the water is actually going.
Phone
(941) 270-6138Office
121 Triple Diamond Blvd UNIT 13, Nokomis, FL 34275
Hours
Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 4:00pm