Leak Detection in Berkhamsted and Tring

Berkhamsted has Victorian and Edwardian houses on the slopes either side of the high street, with suspended timber floors and long pipe runs. There are also terraces beside the canal and newer flats on former industrial sites. Northchurch and the roads towards Potten End have 1930s and post-war houses with solid floors. Tring has Victorian terraces and cottages around the town centre, 1960s and 70s estates to the north and east, and larger houses on the edge of town. Aldbury, Wigginton, Little Gaddesden, Long Marston and Wilstone add cottages with thick walls, barn conversions with underfloor heating and large detached houses with private supply pipes.

We cover HP4 and HP23, including Northchurch, Potten End, Little Gaddesden, Ashridge, Aldbury, Wigginton, Long Marston, Wilstone and Marsworth. The common calls are a boiler losing pressure, a damp patch on a wall below garden level on a sloping site and a water meter turning with everything off. Thermal imaging suits the timber floors and the underfloor heating in barn conversions. Tracer gas suits thick cottage walls and solid floors. The acoustic ground microphone follows a supply pipe under a long drive, and we isolate underfloor heating loops at the manifold to test each one.

Parking on the Berkhamsted and Tring high streets is limited at times, so we carry the equipment in from the nearest space. In the villages we can usually park at the house, and we protect gravel drives and floors while we work. Most home surveys take between two and four hours. The written report records the cause and the location, backed by photographs, thermal images and readings. It is prepared for a trace and access claim on your buildings insurance, with detection, access and repair recorded as separate items.