Leak Detection in Hitchin

The streets near the station, Walsworth and the roads off the town centre are Victorian and Edwardian terraces with suspended timber floors and plumbing that has been renewed several times. The 1930s semis around Westmill and Oughtonhead and the post-war houses of Sunnyside and Bearton have solid floors with heating pipes in screed. The old town centre keeps timber-framed and Georgian buildings, many now flats above shops. The villages have cottages with thick walls and long private supply pipes, plus barn conversions with underfloor heating. In the terraces the usual leak is a bathroom fitting or a pipe joint under the boards.

We cover SG4 and SG5, including Walsworth, Westmill, Oughtonhead, Ickleford, Pirton, Holwell, Offley, St Ippolyts, Gosmore, Whitwell, Kimpton, Codicote and Preston. Typical calls are a damp patch that keeps coming back on a party wall, a boiler losing pressure and a musty smell under a ground floor. Thermal imaging suits the terraces because warm pipes show through floorboards. Tracer gas suits the screed floors and the cottages with solid walls. Dye testing settles whether a bath, shower tray or basin is the source. For barn conversions we isolate underfloor heating loops at the manifold and test each.

Parking in the town centre and near the station is permit controlled at times, so we bring the equipment in by trolley. In the villages access is usually easy and we protect drives and floors while we work. Most home surveys take between two and four hours. The written report contains photographs, thermal images and readings and states the cause and the location. It is prepared for a trace and access claim on your buildings insurance, with detection, access and repair kept as separate items on the page.