Leak Detection in Bedford

North of the town centre, De Parys, Castle and the Poets area are large Victorian and Edwardian houses, many converted into flats. Queens Park and the streets near the station are Victorian terraces. Putnoe and Goldington were built mostly between the 1930s and 1960s as semis and bungalows on solid floors, and Brickhill followed with post-war houses. Kempston, Elstow and Cauldwell mix Victorian terraces, interwar semis and recent estates. The ground in the valley is river clay, which keeps a leaking supply pipe damp close to the surface. In the converted villas, shared pipework and stacked bathrooms make it hard to tell whose leak it is.

We cover MK40, MK41 and MK42, including the town centre, De Parys, Castle, the Poets area, Queens Park, Brickhill, Putnoe, Goldington, Renhold, Kempston, Elstow and Cauldwell. Calls are usually a ceiling stain in a flat, a damp patch that keeps coming back, a boiler losing pressure, or a bill that has jumped. A simple test strip on the water tells us whether it is mains water or heating water, which rules out half the pipework straight away. From there we use thermal imaging, dye tests on bathroom fittings, and tracer gas on the heating or the supply pipe to find the point.

Parking is controlled on the Victorian streets near the centre and the station, so we carry the kit in and use a visitor permit where available. Putnoe, Brickhill, Goldington and Kempston are easy, with driveways on most houses. We work room by room and keep the house tidy. You receive a written report with photographs, thermal images and readings, set out for a trace and access claim on your buildings insurance.