I have a fountain of a woman pouring water from a bowl. It is made of the faux cement that they use to make those things. There is obviously a leak because I have to keep refilling it once a week. Though I have yet to be able to detect the leak. Does anyone have any methods for detecting the leak? I was thinking about food coloring.
Then, what is the best method to fix it?
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Thanks for the response. But my fountains is losing a lot of water. The problem also is that there are bushes around the back of it and it is hard to get at.
I think I might be feeding a troll but just in case I'm not,
In normal summer time heat simple evaporation could very well be the cause. Moving water evaporates much quicker than standing water. Our small pond loses about 1/2" per day in the really hot weather.
If you do in fact have a leak you should be able to find some dampness somewhere. The most likely place to look would be where any hose enters or exits the reservoir or the depth of the bowl where the water stops dropping.
Silicone sealer applied to a completely dry surface will stop most minor leaks.
Colbyt
When mine seemed to be leaking, the only place I could see where it could possibly be leaking was around the pipe that the cord goes down through. I unscrewed it, put on some teflon tape, and screwed it back in. Seems to be ok now. If yours does not have a pipe like mine, then I have no ideas.
Depending whereyou are (I'm near Rochester NY, and it's qutie humid) you are probably losing water to evaporation. Rochester would lose water more slowly cause it's humid. If you're in Arizona, you'd evaporte water more quickly.
Food coloring is a good idea. How to repair depends on what's leaking. Tubing, you replace. Cracked cement, you'd likely use white epoxy.
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