Leak Detection in Hammersmith and Fulham

The Victorian terraces of Brackenbury Village, Ravenscourt Park, Parsons Green, Fulham Broadway and Munster Village have been dug out, extended and refitted more than most. Basement conversions bring underfloor heating, pumped drainage and pipework in new screed. Loft conversions add bathrooms on the top floor. Mansion blocks near Brook Green and along the river have shared risers and heating fed from a central plant. Sands End and the riverside have modern apartment blocks with plastic pipework behind plasterboard. A damp basement wall, a wet patch at the foot of a stair or a ceiling stain under a new bathroom are the usual signs.

We cover W6 and SW6. Typical calls are a boiler losing pressure, a warm patch on a basement floor, a bathroom leaking into the flat below and a water bill that has jumped. Thermal imaging shows the run of heating and underfloor pipework through screed and plaster. Where a circuit will not hold pressure, tracer gas pinpoints the weep. Dye tests and moisture readings prove which bathroom fitting is responsible. Where the pipework runs under original floorboards, the borescope looks between the joists through a small hole before anything is lifted.

Permit zones cover almost every road in Hammersmith and Fulham, and many houses have no frontage for a van, so we bring the kit in on a trolley and plan around the zone. In mansion blocks we arrange access with the porter or managing agent. Allow two to four hours, longer if a basement and a loft both need checking. Your written report carries the photographs, thermal images and readings an insurer expects for a trace and access claim, with detection, access and repair itemised separately.