Leak Detection in Golders Green and Hampstead Garden Suburb

Golders Green is Edwardian and inter-war housing, with big semis and detached houses off the main roads and mansion blocks and converted flats nearer the station. Hampstead Garden Suburb is Arts and Crafts cottages and larger houses from the 1900s to the 1930s, protected outside but often refitted inside with several bathrooms and new heating. In both districts the leaks that cause the most trouble are in bathroom fittings and waste pipes concealed behind tiled boxing, where a slow drip into a floor void can run for months before anything shows.

We cover NW11, including Golders Green, Temple Fortune, Hampstead Garden Suburb and Golders Hill. Common calls are a ceiling stain below an en suite, a musty smell in a ground floor room, and a heating system losing pressure. The borescope camera goes through a small hole or an existing opening to look at a toilet connection or a pipe in boxing without taking the tiles off. Thermal imaging and moisture readings narrow the area first, and tracer gas is the tool for a heating circuit that will not hold pressure.

Golders Green roads near the station are permit controlled, and in the Suburb the houses usually have their own driveways but the lanes are narrow. The equipment comes on a trolley and we take care over floors and finishes. Where conservation rules affect how an opening is made good, the report says exactly what was opened and why. You receive that written report with photographs, thermal images and readings, prepared for a trace and access claim on your buildings insurance.