Leak Detection in Hertford

The centre of Hertford keeps its older houses, many of them timber-framed or Georgian, with later plumbing threaded through solid floors and thick walls. Bengeo and the roads around the two stations have Victorian and Edwardian terraces on suspended timber floors. Sele Farm, Foxholes and Pinehurst are post-war estates with heating pipes buried in screed. Newer flats by the river and on former brewery sites use plastic pipework behind plasterboard. In the older houses the weak points are old copper joints under bathrooms and lead or early copper supply pipes. In the estates it is usually the heating circuit under the floor.

We cover SG13 and SG14, including Bengeo, Sele Farm, Hertford Heath, Hertingfordbury, Bayford, Brickendon and Little Berkhamsted. The common calls are a boiler losing pressure with no visible drip, a damp patch at the base of a wall and a water meter turning with everything off. Thermal imaging suits the heated screed floors in the estates because the warm pipe runs show through the surface. Tracer gas suits the older houses where pipes cross thick walls and solid floors. For a supply pipe under a front garden or driveway we use the acoustic ground microphone and confirm the point before anyone digs.

Parking in the centre is often restricted, so we bring the equipment in on a trolley and work around visitor permits where needed. In the villages and on the estates access is usually simple, and we protect floors and drives while we work. Most home surveys take between two and four hours. At the end you receive a written report with photographs, thermal images and readings that explains the cause and the location. It is prepared for a trace and access claim on your buildings insurance, with detection, access and repair shown as separate items so the claims handler can see each part.