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Old 08-10-2019, 07:11 PM
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Oh, man, I hope your result is better than mine. We had a built-in spa that started losing water. At first it was a little bit, then grew to 5-10 gallons a day. We tried a couple of liquids to see if that would at least slow the loss, but none worked. Then we had a leak detection company from Clermont try to find the leak. They could never exactly locate the spot and I was reluctant to have them start cutting holes in the concrete base searching. They came back three times and nothing stopped the leak. Then T&D got their own leak people and they thought they had located the leak and tunneled under my lanai to the area and changed the connection to one jet. Filled the hole and we filled the spa. Still leaked. At that point, after spending hundreds with no result, I told them to take it out. When they removed the spa, they found roots from my queen palm had grown under the lanai floor and encircled the spa damaging every water line to every jet. They removed the raised concrete platform and poured me a new lanai floor and removed the spa heater and pump and capped the old lines.

It was an easy decision to remove it since I only used it sporadically and the wife never did.

Again, hope yours is easily fixed.
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