Leak Detection in Letchworth and Baldock

The early garden city houses around the town centre, Norton and Willian were built in the early 1900s in the Arts and Crafts style. They have roughcast render, suspended timber floors and plumbing that has been renewed many times since. The Jackmans and Grange estates and the Lordship area were built after the war with solid floors and heating pipes in screed. Baldock has Georgian and older houses along the high street with thick walls, Victorian terraces behind them and the 1980s and 90s houses of Clothall Common with plastic pipework. Ashwell, Weston and Wallington add cottages and barn conversions with underfloor heating.

We cover SG6 and SG7, including Norton, Willian, Jackmans, the Grange, Lordship, Baldock, Clothall Common, Ashwell, Weston and Wallington. The common calls are a ceiling stain under a bathroom in a garden city house and a boiler losing pressure in a post-war house. Low pressure at the taps often means a supply pipe is leaking. Thermal imaging suits the timber floors of the older houses because the warm pipes show through the boards. Tracer gas suits the screed floors and the thick walls in Baldock. The acoustic ground microphone finds supply pipe leaks under front gardens and paths.

Parking is easy on most garden city roads and on the estates, and tighter along the Baldock high street, where we carry the equipment in. Floors are protected and any opening up stays at the marked point. You receive a written report with photographs, thermal images and readings that explains the cause and the location in plain terms. It is written for a trace and access claim on your buildings insurance. The detection, the access and the repair are shown separately so the claims handler can see each part.