Leak Detection in Hatfield

Old Hatfield has Georgian and Victorian houses with thick walls and plumbing added long after they were built. The New Town neighbourhoods of Birchwood, Roe Green, Hilltop, South Hatfield and Ellenbrook date from the 1950s and 60s and have solid floors with heating pipes in screed. The former aerodrome is now a large area of recent houses and flats with plastic pipework and, in some, underfloor heating. Brookmans Park, Welham Green, North Mymms and Little Heath have large detached houses with long supply pipes and several bathrooms. Student lets near the university put heavy use on older pipework.

We cover AL9 and AL10, including Birchwood, Roe Green, Hilltop, South Hatfield, Ellenbrook, Brookmans Park, Welham Green, Little Heath and Essendon. Typical calls are a heating system losing pressure in a New Town house and a ceiling stain under a bathroom in a let property. In Brookmans Park it is often a water meter turning with everything off. Thermal imaging suits the screed floors. Tracer gas suits pipes in thick walls and under tiled floors. The acoustic ground microphone finds a supply pipe leak under a driveway. We isolate underfloor heating loops at the manifold to test each one in turn.

Parking is usually simple in the New Town and the villages, and busier near the university and the station, where we carry the equipment in. We protect floors and drives and keep any opening up small. Landlords and letting agents get the same written report as a homeowner, with photographs, thermal images and readings that explain the cause. It is set out for a trace and access claim on the buildings policy, with the detection, the access and the repair kept as separate items.