Water Feature Leak Detection & Repair in Houston, TX

When a Water Feature Leaks, You Lose the Reason You Built It

A waterfall, fountain, spillover spa, bubbler, or scupper isn’t plumbing you tolerate — it’s the feature you chose your pool for. So when one starts leaking, the loss is double: the water draining away, and the calm, moving-water effect that made the backyard feel finished. Worse, water-feature leaks are easy to misread, because the water you see splashing and recirculating hides exactly how much is quietly escaping.

At Orbit Pool Leak Detection, we find and repair water-feature leaks across Greater Houston — restoring both the seal and the effect — backed by a 60-day detection accuracy guarantee and a 2-year repair warranty.

Why Water Features Hide Their Leaks So Well

A water feature is built to move water constantly, and all that motion is the perfect camouflage for a leak. Splash and spray look the same whether the basin is sealed or not, so a feature can lose water for weeks before anyone connects it to the pool level dropping. The other complication is plumbing: features run on their own dedicated supply and return lines, often pumped uphill to a waterfall crest or out through a row of scuppers — which means the leak can sit anywhere from the basin to a line buried behind the stonework.

Where Water-Feature Leaks Actually Start

Most feature leaks trace to one of a few places: the dedicated supply or return line feeding the feature, the basin or trough that catches and recirculates the water, or the grout and seals along a waterfall, spillover, or stone face that have cracked and now let water slip behind them rather than over them. Spillover spas add their own weak point where the spa cascades into the pool. Pinning down which one it is — line, basin, or seal — is the entire job, because each is reached and repaired completely differently.

Isolating the Feature From the Rest of the Pool

Because a water feature runs on its own circuit, we can test it apart from the pool — which is exactly how we confirm whether the feature is the source:

Isolating the feature’s circuit and pressure testing its supply and return lines
Running the feature, then shutting it off, to compare how the water level behaves
Dye testing the basin, trough, and spillover edges in still water
Inspecting grout, seals, and stonework along the waterfall or scupper face

That separation is the advantage of a dedicated circuit — it lets us rule the feature in or out cleanly, the same evidence-first approach behind all of our pool leak detection.

Repairing the Line, the Basin, or the Seal — and the Look

Once we know what’s failing, the repair fits the feature. A leaking supply or return line gets the same precise plumbing repair we’d give any pool line — exposing and replacing only the failed section. A leaking basin or trough is sealed at the source. And where water has been escaping through cracked grout or failed seals on a waterfall or spillover, we regrout and reseal so the water runs over the face the way it was designed to, not behind it.

The goal isn’t just a sealed feature — it’s your waterfall, fountain, or spillover looking and sounding the way it did the day it was built.