The fix once the source is found — underwater crack repair, return line and skimmer work, staged for hillside and gated-estate access.
Pinpointing the leak is the easy half. What it takes to fix depends entirely on what actually failed — a shell crack on a midcentury Trousdale pool, a fitting on a Bel Air estate, or under-deck plumbing on a hillside property that takes more access work to reach. The same crew that ran leak detection handles the repair, staged around gate codes and canyon access instead of showing up unprepared.
LA's leak repair rules
Los Angeles water conservation rules require all leaks to be repaired in a timely manner — and failure or refusal to fix a leak you know about, or reasonably should know about, is treated as prohibited use of water, enforceable by LADWP's Water Conservation Response Unit. The same rules generally prohibit refilling a residential pool with potable water, which is exactly why getting a leak found and fixed fast matters more here than just protecting your water bill. One useful break in LA's favor: simple leak repairs — the kind that don't require removing or replacing a fixture or a section of the drainage system — typically don't require a separate plumbing permit under the city's code, which keeps most pool leak fixes moving without a permit delay.
What we repair
Often without draining
Structural crack injection and underwater patching — common on original midcentury shells in Trousdale and Los Feliz — handled without draining whenever the crack allows it.
Cracked housings & fittings
Skimmer throats and return fittings replaced or resealed once dye testing confirms the source, matched to the property's existing hardware.
Under-deck plumbing
Lines beneath the deck on hillside properties take more access work, but a pressure-isolated line gets repaired precisely instead of excavated blind.
Pumps, filters & valves
A weeping union, a stuck valve, a hairline crack in a filter housing — we fix the leak and check whether pressure buildup elsewhere on the pad is what exposed it.
Why non-invasive detection matters first
Nothing gets cut, drilled, or excavated on an LA hills property until we're certain where the water's actually going. Dye at suspected fittings, individual lines pressure-isolated one at a time, electronic listening equipment tuned to the sound of water moving underground — that's the standard on every call, and it's why the detection fee comes off the bill once you hire us for the repair.
Once a leak is suspected on a property in the LA hills, the sequence that keeps you clear of LADWP enforcement looks like this:
Response within 24 to 48 hours, every time.
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