Leak Detection in Maidenhead

The streets near Maidenhead station and the town centre are Victorian and Edwardian terraces with suspended timber floors and a void beneath. Boyn Hill and Pinkneys Green have larger interwar houses, and Furze Platt and Cox Green are mostly post-war semis on solid floors. The centre has a run of recent apartment developments with plastic pipework. Bray, Holyport and Cookham have older cottages and substantial riverside houses with long supply pipes. In the terraces a slow leak under the boards sits in the floor void for months. The first sign is a musty smell or mould along a skirting rather than a visible drip.

We cover the whole of SL6, including the town centre, Boyn Hill, Furze Platt, Pinkneys Green, Cox Green, Bray, Holyport, Cookham and Littlewick Green. Calls are usually a musty smell that will not go, mould at a skirting, a boiler losing pressure, a ceiling stain under a bathroom, or a bill that has jumped. For a floor void we read moisture at the skirtings, scan with the thermal camera and put a borescope through a small hole to see the pipe and the water. Heating leaks are pressure tested then found with tracer gas. Bathrooms are dye tested from above.

Parking near the station and the High Street is controlled, so we carry the kit in and use a visitor permit where available. The outer roads and villages are easy. Riverside houses in Bray and Cookham often have long drives, and we bring the ground microphone along them where the supply pipe is suspected. We keep the survey tidy and open nothing until a repair is agreed. Your written report sets out the cause with photographs, thermal images and moisture readings, in the form insurers expect for a trace and access claim.