Leak Detection in High Wycombe

The valley floor around the town centre, Wycombe Marsh and Loudwater has Victorian terraces with suspended floors and cellars. The hillsides of Totteridge, Terriers, Micklefield, Castlefield and Downley were developed between the 1930s and the 1960s with semis and terraces on solid floors. Hazlemere has larger interwar and post-war detached houses, and Booker, Sands and Cressex are mostly post-war. On the slopes the supply pipe often enters through a stop tap pit at the bottom of a steep path, so a leak there can run downhill unseen. Inside, heating pipes in screed and bathrooms over kitchens are the usual culprits.

We cover HP11, HP12 and HP13, including the town centre, Wycombe Marsh, Loudwater, Booker, Sands, Castlefield, Cressex, Totteridge, Terriers, Micklefield, Downley, Bowerdean and Hazlemere. Typical calls are a water bill that has jumped, a damp patch at the base of a front wall, a boiler losing pressure, and a hissing noise in a wall. For the supply pipe we check the meter, listen at the stop tap pit and along the route with the acoustic ground microphone, and confirm with tracer gas. Heating leaks are pressure tested then traced with tracer gas and the thermal camera.

Parking is tight on some of the steeper terraced streets near the centre, so we carry the kit in where needed. The hillside estates and Hazlemere usually have driveways. We mark the leak position so that any excavation on a drive or path is a small hole. We also note the condition of the stop tap and the meter for your records. Your written report carries photographs, thermal images and readings and is prepared for a trace and access claim on your buildings insurance.