Patching vinyl pool liner

[ZEROPILOT]

I've sprung a tiny leak in one of my pool ponds that I made a few posts about previously.
The screw is in the hole just to remind me where it is located.
I have no idea how it happened. The plastic is still very pliable. I have no sharp objects in there. But I'm happy to have found it. It was leaking over 1,000 gallons every 24 hours.
Otherwise these are doing very well.

 

[wellington]

Hopefully you found it before the pond was empty.

 

[Cathie G]

I've sprung a tiny leak in one of my pool ponds that I made a few posts about previously.
The screw is in the hole just to remind me where it is located.
I have no idea how it happened. The plastic is still very pliable. I have no sharp objects in there. But I'm happy to have found it. It was leaking over 1,000 gallons every 24 hours.
Otherwise these are doing very well.

🤗🙏 you get a solution quickly.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Hopefully you found it before the pond was empty.

It did go almost completely empty. Twice.

 

[jeff kushner]

Good catch Z, I love the temp repair. It looks like the same poly plastic we receive glycol in. It's rare, very rare that they leak by themselves but it sure looks like a "nit" in the plastic blew out as that's a better grade of plastic than a shopping cart for instance. A little black snot on that screw & back in, will last longer than either of us will brother! LOL

Or are you going old school with a vinyl patch on the inside? I have slept in a waterbed for nearly my entire adult life....I have extras! In 40+ yrs, I had 1 leak.....early on...one of those whole lot of pretty combined with a whole lot a crazy! Well worth the "vinyl patch", but not something you want around longer than, say Sunday. LOL

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Hopefully you found it before the pond was empty.

It did go almost completely empty. Twice

Good catch Z, I love the temp repair. It looks like the same poly plastic we receive glycol in. It's rare, very rare that they leak by themselves but it sure looks like a "nit" in the plastic blew out as that's a better grade of plastic than a shopping cart for instance. A little black snot on that screw & back in, will last longer than either of us will brother! LOL

Or are you going old school with a vinyl patch on the inside? I have slept in a waterbed for nearly my entire adult life....I have extras! In 40+ yrs, I had 1 leak.....early on...one of those whole lot of pretty combined with a whole lot a crazy! Well worth the "vinyl patch", but not something you want around longer than, say Sunday. LOL

I used what I had handy. I dried the area. Cleaned it with alcohol and smeared some black liquid RTV gasket on both sides.
I imagine that's going to last as long as I'll need it to. Another few years.

 

[TammyJ]

Phooey. I was all worked up getting set to pop up with my bicycle tyre patch idea.

 

[TammyJ]

Phooey. I was all worked up getting set to pop up with my bicycle tyre patch idea.

Umm hmm. Almost put the big one in it again, huh, Tammy?