Leak Detection in Bishop's Stortford

The centre of Bishop's Stortford has Georgian and older buildings with thick walls. The streets around the station, Hockerill and the river have Victorian and Edwardian terraces on suspended timber floors. Thorley and Havers are post-war estates with solid floors and heating pipes in screed. Thorley Park, St Michael's Mead and Bishop's Park were built from the 1980s onwards with plastic pipework, pressurised heating and in the later houses underfloor heating. Newer flats near the station have shared services. In the older terraces the usual fault is a pipe joint under a bathroom. In the newer houses it is a push-fit joint behind plasterboard.

We cover CM23, including Hockerill, Thorley, Havers, Thorley Park, St Michael's Mead, Bishop's Park, Spellbrook and Little Hallingbury. The usual calls are a boiler losing pressure, a damp patch at the base of a stud wall in a newer house and a water bill that has jumped. Thermal imaging suits the terraces and the newer houses alike, because warm pipes and wet plasterboard both show on the camera. Tracer gas suits the screed floors on the post-war estates. For a supply pipe under a driveway we use the acoustic ground microphone and mark the point before any digging starts.

Parking near the station and the town centre can be restricted, so we carry the equipment in and ask for a visitor permit where needed. On the estates and in the villages access is simple. We cover floors as we go and keep any opening up at the spot we have marked. The written report includes photographs, thermal images and readings and states the cause and the location. It is prepared for a trace and access claim on your buildings insurance. We are happy to speak to the claims handler or loss adjuster if they want to go through the findings.