Leak Detection in Kensington and Chelsea

Kensington and Chelsea are mostly early and mid Victorian stucco terraces, most of them converted into lateral or stacked flats with several bathrooms over the rooms below. Mews houses behind the squares have been rebuilt inside with plastic pipework and underfloor heating. Mansion blocks have shared risers and communal heating. Lower ground floors across W8, SW3 and SW10 have been dug out, tanked and fitted with underfloor heating in new screed, and World's End and Chelsea Harbour add post-war estates and modern riverside flats. Period finishes, stone floors and bespoke joinery make opening up expensive, so a precise location matters more here than almost anywhere.

We cover W8, SW3 and SW10. Typical calls are a ceiling stain in the flat below a bathroom, a warm patch on a stone floor, a boiler or communal system losing pressure and a damp lower ground floor wall. Thermal imaging maps heating and underfloor pipework through stone, screed and plaster without touching the finish. Tracer gas finds the point of escape in any circuit that fails the pressure test. Dye tests settle which bath, shower or waste is at fault. The borescope inspects voids behind panelling and under floors through an existing opening wherever possible.

Residents parking covers the whole borough and many streets have no stopping at all. We bring the kit in on a trolley from the nearest bay and arrange access with porters, housekeepers and managing agents in advance. We protect floors and work quietly. A survey of a large lateral flat can take longer than the usual two to four hours, and we say so when booking. The written report with photographs, thermal images and readings is prepared for a trace and access claim on your buildings insurance and for the managing agent.