Leak Detection in Chiswick

Bedford Park has large late Victorian houses, many with later side returns, loft conversions and basements. The terraces of the Glebe and the roads behind the main shopping parade are smaller Victorian and Edwardian houses, often divided into flats or extended into the garden with a new kitchen and bathroom. Grove Park adds Edwardian houses and interwar semis, Strand on the Green has older cottages near the river, and the riverside developments are modern flats with plastic pipework. Rear extensions with new bathrooms over old kitchens, and underfloor heating laid in extension screeds, are frequent sources of hidden leaks.

We cover the whole of W4. Typical calls are a bath or shower leaking into the kitchen below, a warm patch on an extension floor, a boiler losing pressure and a damp wall that returns after redecoration. Dye testing of baths, showers and wastes finds the fitting at fault. Thermal imaging follows heating and underfloor pipework through screed and floorboards. Tracer gas pinpoints the leak in pipework that will not hold pressure. For supply pipes under front gardens and side passages the acoustic ground microphone locates it from the surface.

Chiswick is permit controlled almost everywhere, so we plan for the zone and bring the equipment in on a trolley. Where a house is in a conservation area and the finishes matter, we locate the leak as precisely as the methods allow so the opening is small and in the right place. Plan for the survey to take between two and four hours. The written report with photographs, thermal images and readings is prepared for a trace and access claim on your buildings insurance.