Leak Detection in Kingston and Surbiton

Surbiton is known for its large Victorian and Edwardian villas, many of them now converted into flats with pipework shared between households. Norbiton and Canbury have tight Victorian terraces with suspended floors that have been re-plumbed several times. Berrylands and Tolworth are mostly 1930s semis with solid ground floors and heating pipes set in screed. On Coombe Hill and Kingston Hill the houses are large and detached, with long private supply pipes from the road. Around the town centre and along the river there are modern apartment blocks with plastic pipework behind plasterboard, where a weeping push-fit joint can go unnoticed for months.

We cover KT1, KT2 and KT6, including Surbiton, Berrylands, Tolworth, Norbiton, Canbury, Coombe and the town centre. The common calls are a stain on a ceiling below another flat, a boiler losing pressure in a 1930s semi, and a meter that turns with every tap closed. In converted villas we test each source in turn and use moisture mapping to prove which flat the water comes from. Heating circuits in screed are checked with a pressure test and tracer gas. Supply pipes under long driveways are listened to with the acoustic ground microphone.

Parking near Kingston town centre is mostly controlled, so we bring the equipment in on a trolley and ask for a visitor permit where the council scheme needs one. Most Surbiton and Berrylands roads have space outside the house. We work one room at a time and protect floors as we go. At the end of the survey you receive a written report with photographs, thermal images and readings, laid out to support a trace and access claim on your buildings insurance.